Yeah what's going on with his voice.

Internet racists couldn't get past the fact that a black girl was cast to play a character more or less explicitly described as black - they complained that they were "tricked" into caring about a black girl. Could you imagine asking them to believe that a biracial actor was a heartthrob? Don't you know that "White"…

There was never a point in our (recent) evolutionary history when sex did not make babies, or when babies were made by something that wasn't sex. It probably never got "figured out" - it just was.

"The description defies parody. $100,000 of taxpayer money is going to help develop a video game about a female alien sent to earth to rescue her own planet. [...] Although it is the smorgasbord of politically correct elements that makes this project entertaining to write about, the bottom line is that the government…

There's also this: "When Crystal, a Cuban American daughter of a Marielito family and a masculine-identified woman, shared her business vision with Ivette, she knew exactly what she wanted to call it. She could not imagine naming her masculine clothing line for female and transgender bodies anything but Marimacho, the…

Carry on.

Ahem. Stegosaurus was an herbivore.

It comes from freestyling, when a rapper had to find the beat and keep the crowd going while doing the requisite - really impressive! - mental gymnastics necessary to get started.

I'm wondering if anyone complaining about the lyrics read the song's title.

Got a link to the recipe you used?

"...but you can love something and acknowledge its warts at the same time."

That literally looks like the most delicious desert I've ever seen.

On the whole I agree that's over the top in its presentation, but I can't imagine that pop-culture critique is really the same thing as the KKK having a racist blog. (Which they probably do have a whole ton of.) While I'm not a fan of Requires Hate's tone, I think dismissing what they do as "just to make people angry"…

As a minority reader, Tolkien leaving POCs out didn't bother me quite so much as getting to Return of the King and meeting Tolkien's POCs.

Whoops.

Yes - and, again, this makes sense because there is a wrong and a revenge. The Swiss did not oppress African Americans. Americans did.

Here's the problem with this: the Swiss never did anything to African Americans, really. The reasons Django and Basterds work is because they...well, the premise makes sense.

It's more like this, I think. Special effects are special effects so we're suspending disbelief, but in an image like this one from Gone with the Wind, our brains simply aren't processing that it's not possible on its own because we're swept up in the drama of what the image is conveying.

Looper at least goes out of its way to say, "Don't think about it. We try to avoid problems. Things get more complex than we can understand when there are problems. That's why we try to minimize them." Handwaving of the best kind.