His statements about Washington and Jefferson were pretty pro-slavery.

Tucker Carlson is defending US slavery.

International News: North Korea seems to be backing off from plans to test fire a missile near Guam. The North Korean military announced they have completed plans to fire a missile over Japan, and land a few miles offshore from Guam, but Kim Jong Un said he would wait to see what "the foolish Yankees" do before…

I know somebody that worked on "Powerless." I liked the concept. But, good God, was it terrible.

I love crime. Gotta get me some more of that sweet, sweet crime!

It's basically a win-win: if nobody fights back, you just run roughshod over them. If somebody does, you play the 'hey, it takes two to fight' card to try to undermine the opponents moral position.

Trump all but endorsed his 2016 primary challenger, and Ryan blew him out of the water with over 80% of the vote.

"Racism no longer exists"

After his speech condemning the attacks, Trump tweeted "News Media will never be satisfied…bad people." Just hedging his bets, so the white supremacists knew he was really unhappy about having to say something bad about them.

Maybe the roosters had bazookas?

After the threat of nuclear war, but before offering 'both sides' in response to a white power rally.

Sure, letting a washed up action movie star drive a tank into a house—to break up a chicken fighting ring, if I remember correctly—is reckless and dangerous. But without showmanship, how can you get a reality show deal?

International news: Remember a few news cycles ago when Trump said he was considering a "military option" in Venezuela? Maduro has latched onto that as an excuse to begin an 'investigation' into rival politicians being part of a US conspiracy to overthrow Maduro. He said that they would arrest anybody that refused to…

Alternate history literature is pretty niche, while a HBO show from the creators of Game of Thrones is going to get a lot of mainstream attention, hence two different reactions. I am aware that "What if the South had won?" is already an existing sub-genre, but I couldn't name a single work in it. I imagine most of the…

So, you don't really get how reviews work.

Yeah, first half had the Superman problem of "what is a plausible threat for this guy?" which really isn't as difficult to get a hold of as people think—just make the objective something other than "bad guy and good guy try to kill each other" and it'll work—but then they went full soap opera and bought in…

S2 of Daredevil had some good ideas, but the execution was terrible, and just stalled out in the end. It felt very rushed, like if they had a bit more time to examine the general concepts in the writers room, they would've come up with a far more satisfying conclusion.

So far, every season ends up falling apart in the back half, as the plot starts running in circles to stall for time. Especially evident in Jessica Jones, where the season could've literally been cut in half if Jessica was willing to kill Killgrave from the start (and her flip flopping on the subject ends up making…

Instead of getting bogged down in an unending quagmire of a war of choice in the Middle East, we'll get bogged down in an unending quagmire of a war of choice in South America. It's closer, so we'll save on transportation costs.

Also, Ivanka Trump has blocked Congressman Ted Lieu on Twitter. A White House adviser blocking a sitting Congress person on Twitter is weird, and hints at a deep dysfunction between the executive and legislative.