Greta Gerwig. Ugh.

Agree. Maybe she just doesn’t listen very well so it sailed right past her, but to me it was telling that a question beginning like this: “In terms of the racist jokes, ...” didn’t prompt her to say “Wait a minute, the jokes are about race but they are not RACIST.”

Since I made the previous comment I’ve seen a video clip of the local news talking to the woman whose yard it is. Tempting though it is to comment at length on the clip, I’ll keep the majority of my impressions to myself and say simply: she didn’t seem very credible to me.

I’ve heard many people throughout my life say Reese-ies and it drives me nuts. It is absolutely a real thing. A real real annoying thing.

FWIW I just checked, on a whim, and relentlesslygay dot com was registered two days ago to a woman in PA who may have been shrewd enough to grab the domain, but not quite shrewd enough to know about proxy registration that wouldn’t reveal her name and address. Oops! Her email address is interesting, too.

I thought of that possibility too, then felt bad that the ubiquity of these crowdfunded things has made me so cynical!

I can totally see it. Excited about this!

Glad I’m not the only one who knew that bit! That was it, “cascadading.” How she acted it out was both adorable and real effing poignant.

About Bill’O - exactly!! I think about this every time I see him adopt that “this is SERIOUS!” demeanor on his idiot show. Although between you and me I’m pretty sure his conservative shtick it’s all a giant put-on he adopted after laboring in those other trenches for years before it finally dawned on him where the…

She’s been doing that voice for more than 30 years. She did a character in her standup act (yes, people, Whoopi did standup decades ago) that was based on herself as a child pretending to have long blonde hair, using a towel on her head, and speaking that way because she thought it was how actresses spoke and she…

You’re exactly right! Many moons ago when Whoopi was doing standup one of her bits was to talk about how as a little girl she’d put a long towel on her head and pretend she was white and that it was her long blonde hair, because she wanted to be an actress and associated this with actresses, and how she’d flip the…

Martin Mull / Billy Joel ‘79 or ‘80.

You make a very good point about the indoctrination of children, regardless of where they live. And of course you’re quite right about “straight up lie”.

Birthright-style brainwashing is par for the course in Israel and starts in preschool (for example, little kids making care packages and writing letters to “hero soldiers”) Most people go with the flow and don’t question it.

Er... ok... but shouldn’t anti-troll efforts be directed at actual trolls?! I mean I guess my comment is not quite in line with the love-in that seems to have sprung up around the subjects of the article in the interim, but jeeezus that doesn’t make it a troll post. This place, I swear.

Replying to my own comment, which I can no longer edit, to ask something I hope will be answered by someone kind enough to read the lowly greys now and then!

Shoulda sent out a barrel-rolling tough white cop to deal with these insolent kids, who clearly are no saints. Why didn’t they just do what they were told?

He’s onto you allllllllll!!!! Agreed, makes it even better. Well played all around.

FWIW, I took “UK equivalents” to mean UK gossip rags/entertainment outlets.

Interesting post!