Sometimes I just think the guys don’t consider the effect of what they are doing or how it will be reacted to because they are trying to tell a story they think is funny. It’s a show run by two guys with very little editing, so sometimes they miss the mark. But at the same time, I viewed the Heather character as more…

Yeah, it was definitely not my favorite episode this season either.  

Agree totally, and that’s why I think the review misses the mark. “Opponents seem to picture trans athletes as nothing more than men wearing wig trying to run with women so they can blow away the fields.”  That’s exactly right, and I viewed the episode as treating that point as absurdity.  Maybe that’s just my view of…

It was the finale of the Tegridy-farm centric storylines because the growing season is over for Randy.  So it’s the “Season Finale” because he was selling his final strands of the season

It was the finale of the Tegridy-farm centric storylines because the growing season is over for Randy.  So it’s the “Season Finale” because he was selling his final strands of the season

Adding to stray observations since you didn’t add any: There was a great callback to the “Freemium isn’t Free” episode.  Stan knows pretty much everything about board games because of his addiction tendencies.  When Kyle points out that Stan really knows his board games, that got a big laugh out of me, and I really…

I don’t really view the show as having any one thesis as it’s scatterbrained and basically written on the fly week-to-week. Sometimes that does lead to some short-sighted episodes, mostly because it’s really just a two man crew week-to-week (they do have other writers that brainstorm plotlines prior to the seasons…

I just can’t agree with a lot of your review. While this is an issue South Park maybe should have avoided, I ended up thinking they did a relatively enlightened job based on how I watched the episode. This is going to be TL:DR post, but what the hell:

The Mr. Garrison sex change and dolphin episode isn’t great, but I think they’ve made the point that Mr. Garrison wasn’t really transgender and just kind of did it on a whim. The autism vaccine episode was obviously just a joke and doesn’t show what Matt and Trey think (they admittedly haven’t handled trans issues…

Well, I imagine he’s sleeping a lot easier now that all of this has become public and he’s not fighting against Trump and his ghouls. Also, I’ve been a part of two week long civil trial where I probably got 2-3 hours a sleep a night, and I looked like hell. I imagine Schiff and co. have that but ramped up by 10,000x…

Agree with the original trilogy and the prequels, but I think Disney has done a good job with female characters so far in the new trilogy. I mean, Rey is obviously the main character, and you have Rose, Holdo (RIP), and Leia as strong characters. I also think we will see much more of Maz Kanata (not sure of spelling)…

Yeah but most people overestimate the impact of social media complaints. It’s not really true that people are bringing out “pitchforks.” Not one celebrity has been “canceled” for their beliefs.  

But this polarization isn’t on liberals. It’s on conservatives who for decades have made demonizing and lying about the left a primary political strategy.

Yeah, I’d also gladly pay to access Deadspin.  Splinter getting shut down was a major letdown for me, but losing Deadspin too is going to be gut-punch level.  

Nah, because that would cause damage to the bridge.  Dude just needs to take a George Bailey-like jump off a bridge, will cause much less mess.   Imagine Gaetz getting a “It’s a Wonderful Life”-esque angel showing him how the world would have been without him in it, except in his case everyone is fine and dandy…

People on the right love to bemoan what they call the dangers of “identity politics” (Clay Travis even said it’s the biggest danger/threat for America or something along those lines) without for one second examining or acknowledging the basic fact that the GOP is the party of white identity politics. It would be…

Looks like Dabo makes $9.3 million a year. If he made $5 million instead, that alone creates a pool of $4.3 million for 85 scholarship football players. 4,300,000/85 is roughly $50,000 per player. But according to Dabo, “as far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me. I’ll go…

Yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of framing the amateur college sports issue as a “players bust their asses for four years for nothing” proposition. I think given the money college athletics (particularly basketball and football) bring in, players should be pulling down a salary in addition to the scholarship (Dabo and…

Well it isn’t a non-livable wage, 27K plus incentives over less than half a year isn’t really all that bad when viewed in a vacuum. Now, when that work involves putting your health at risk, it looks more like a lousy deal. But I think it’s just the reality that a league like the XFL won’t survive if it has to pay…

While being a AA ballplayer is grueling and a slog in its own way, at least there isn’t a high chance of debilitating brain damage from playing baseball. Still, though, $27K when viewed in light of the league’s infancy, likelihood of failure, talent-level, and all that doesn’t seem as unfair.  But yeah, for Vereen…