I’ll check it out, thanks!

Weird question: does anyone know where there’s a spoiler-y synopsis of this I can read? I do that for movies that provoke my curiosity badly but I won’t be able to watch for a while for whatever reason, because it sort of scratches the itch. I read about this a few months ago and have been keeping tabs since, but it…

Huh. You know what irritates me? Professional video game critics complaining about how hard it is as a working parent to find time to play video games.

back inland through Lake Tahoe and Nevada to Tonopah and back to Indy via I-15 to I-70

LMAO, I just caught up to playing that game last month. My friend had said “It’s a great game, but look out, it’s the kind of game I’m embarrassed to play in front of [his wife] because of the way the female characters are dressed.” The first day I played it, my wife wakes through the living room right in the first…

Saying it’s “what consumers want” assumes as a natural law that all consumers, and arguably all potential consumers, desire normatively attractive women, instead of men or even atypically attractive women. This assumption about the world:

Look at the mistakes Twitter makes when it has the collective “genius” of millions of people and all of human knowledge at its disposal, and you might begin to grasp why people with 0.000001% of that might make poor choices.

I’m not saying she’s a nazi or a secret racist, but I think it is absolutely incumbent on her to publicly condemn them.

As a white person who’s consistently cared about justice for black (and all other) people for a long time, and as part of that tries to keep up with what PoC folks are saying at places like the Root, let’s say for the sake of argument that this article offends me personally (it doesn’t, but let’s say it does. For…

[Narrator’s voice] “He does not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.”

$225.5 million seems like a quarter billion to me.

The interior decorators:

Another poor white rural scion made good over here: I think the problem with that book is that it takes the learned helplessness that absolutely exists and works to divest it of any origin other than personal choice. If we’re talking about internalizing self-hatred and low expectations because you were born into…

Seems like she’s more guilty of saying “New York” when she intentionally and specifically meant “New York City” than she is of misunderstanding the demographic and geographic variety of New York state. Which is an accurate observation, but also a long lost lexical battle.

Uh, no, while I’m not usually a “look at the dictionary” person because words often mean much more than what’s in the dictionary, this is literally part of the dictionary definition. Phobia is “an extreme or irrational fear or aversion to something.” If you are bothered by other people’s lifestyle choices that hurt no…

In 2009, she was 76 and the Democrats had 58 votes in the Senate. This should have been part of public conversation for a long time.

Yeah, I think the initial error was assuming Gwen Stefani was ever a punk rock icon.

I’d argue it’s almost exactly the opposite. The actual left—like, the informed and savvy half of Bernie supporters—criticized Obama in real time, but they criticize all presidents contemporaneously, and they shouldn’t have been especially surprised that Obama wasn’t as progressive as the NYT said he was. But all other…

Even at 8 years old, I was creeped out by the robotic nature of the pledge. It seemed to me, even back then, like it was rather un-American. Mind you, this was toward the tail end of the Cold War era, where communist/Soviet fear-mongering was still very much en vogue. I couldn’t figure out the difference between us…

Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge to help his boss sell magazines and flags to schoolhouses across the country, cashing in on a sweeping movement at the time to use the emerging public school system to indoctrinate nationalism into kids, especially the children of our rapidly growing immigrant population. Being a…