The Awl has an article dubbing this effect "dismediation", which I like.

What did Estes Kefauver do to piss off Truman?

Japanese-Americans also had some legitimate grievances.

Interestingly, he knew how badly the country needed the highway system because, while serving in 1919, it had been his job to oversee a convoy going from coast to coast that got horribly mired in the Midwest.
Y'know, he served his country, and used the lessons he'd learned to try to help people. Crazy.

HOT TAKE, BRO

God, I miss Todd's bouts of madness.

Ha, like they'd hire women.

Vivien Thomas deserves a look as well. There's a (fairly accurate) HBO movie, Something The Lord Made, about his astounding work, featuring Mos Def as noticeably-not-Dr. Thomas and Alan Rickman as his partner Dr. Blalock. It's highly under-beloved, if nothing else because it's got Alan Rickman doing a Southern drawl.

One day it hit me what "call a spade a spade" really meant.

What I wouldn't give for Vetinari right now…

It is, but I still found it disconcerting that at times his dying mother was relegated to the background while he bitched about moving back home, not getting a job, and having some relationship issues. It was honest in a way I appreciated, but I also felt it was to the detriment of the film.
Now that I'm thinking it…

To clarify, I don't think he had intent. My problem isn't that he was snarky or pessimistic, my problem is that he propagated the 'both sides do it' myth, while also relying on the 'look how dumb this media thing is' zinger. We now have a world where people trust random bloggers more than the NYT or the WSJ, even on…

There's no way that this doesn't have Vanesse Hudgens discover Batman's identity and have to decide if she should keep it to herself for the good of the world or reveal it to, I dunno, save her family or something. Mid-season finale, if they get one.

Stewart's schtick is a little thin for me right now. A good portion of the current generation came of age listening to him say that all mainstream news was stupid bullshit that was often lying to us. I don't put the fault on him - our nation's lack of critical thinking skills are too much for his narrow shoulders -…

I'm in the middle of a re-watch. I'm in S6, having skipped the gas leak season. Like everyone else, I kinda felt burned out after all the ups and downs, and so after S6 was concluded I just let it lay for a while. It's still really fucking good, and it was wonderful to remember why we fell so hard for this show. I'll…

I believe so, mostly. IIRC, some people were pulling for him to be HRC's VP choice, along with Sherrod Brown. I'm pulling for Sherrod Brown to distinguish himself as a candidate for the WH.

I wanted to start watching this show because it seems to be getting better than average love for a procedural. Where's the best place to start? I noticed there was a definite point sometime last season that it clicked, which episode would y'all recommend I hop in on?

I had a strange reaction to hearing about Other People: my mother was, 20 years ago, 27 years old, living in Sacramento, watching her mother die of inoperable cancer. There was even an interlude where my mom brought her mom a bunch of pot and got them both baked; a similar event was featured in the trailers for Other…

I'm imagining all the struggling novelists of the past fifty years who would write about an outlandish dictator, then delete it, thinking 'nah, that's too far-fetched'. Nope!

I'm 25 and no one hits on me except high school sophomores.