Hey, I'm at least 60% sure the Sultan mentioned Allah at least once. Totally culturally accurate!

There's a thriving film industry in Israel, where English is widely spoken, and some of the participants are even Arab, but I admit that's probably not the most fertile source either.

“We do not own rights, we’re not a label, all our music is licensed from rightsholders and we pay them—we don’t pay ourselves.”

Because they don't believe in non-copulative sex? Because they like the categories of "men go here and women go there" because they give them certainty and a role to play? There's a lot of stuff going on there. But at least we know change is possible.

There's also a long tradition of Jewish people participating in the civil rights movement. Black/Jewish relations in the U.S. are a mixed bag, but let's not pretend it's all negative.

I think the MLB union makes two? Though they could do better at helping minor leaguers.

No, it's more than that. It's "he can say whatever he wants because he's in a punk band and no one can criticize him." Don't you love it when free speech only flows one way?

It's probably a reference to the drama end of things - Walter White, Tony Soprano, Gregory House, Don Draper, whoever Liev Schrieber plays in that show he has - they all at the very least got away with a ton of heinous shit.

Except I'm just sick of jackass protagonists, period, unless they're done well and there's an ensemble to even things out. There are lots of ways for female characters to be complex, interesting, and more fully human than they've been allowed to be in the past - making them assholes is only one of those ways.

One Day at a Time is delightful and I won't hear of it being cancelled.

I'll have you know I was instantly repulsed by the concepts for both of those projects.

I once took a Sporcle quiz about what countries (or their modern equivalents) Britain has never invaded. It's…a pretty short list.

It's all part of the Silicon Valley "work is your whole life" thing - your CEO isn't your boss; he's the bro you hang with, bro! Like all your fellow engineer bros, which is why we can get you to work 16-hour days! Bro! And of course it's not just insidious on the "blurring lines between work and outside life" front -…

Nah, I bet the diagram of "healing sticker-buyers" and "anti-vaxxers" is pretty close to a circle.

Because some schools don't bother teaching even the fundamentals of human biology?

And there goes a perfectly nice trailer ruined by that "Rise Up" song I never want to hear again. Sigh. That said, I'm so glad to see Tatiana Maslany breaking into the mainstream like this.

Jazz and Motown, actually, which was nice.

A Marshal having to go to Hell to serve Satan with a lawsuit sounds like a TV show I'd watch for at least half an episode.

Nah, when it comes to politics I'm mostly about results. If pissy infighting stops this, awesome. As long as it's stopped.

Well if we're sharing anecdata, when I went to visit my relatives abroad in April - and I'm talking about my conservative-as-hell relatives - their first action was to mock us about electing this doof. Then I reminded them about their terrible head of state and all was well. Ish.