Well if we’re honest a lot of them just skipped over that messy Reconstruction business, don’t know anything about what happens between 1868-1934 (except a vague idea about cowboys from Hollywood movies and bullshit to drive in tourists from the History Channel), might mention WWI as “the one we got in late and saved…

regret and polite smiles over wine glasses

Don’t you remember this? Where Dakota Johnson was an embarrassed teenager for the entire 50 Shades press tour?

Whenever I hear Equalist, all I think about is Korra

You also don’t win by deliberately playing a bad hand.

Good thing they’ll never have one during a night when a new episode of Serial drops. Then that would be serious conspiracy territory.

Right now if the DNC thinks quietly waiting for the Republicans to explode is a great strategy for a checked-out electorate, they’ve got another thing coming. Republicans are using fear, the time-tested way to get moderate Baby Boomers to vote for anything, as they’re main strategy (as usual). Hilary Clinton is not…

And how dare the Sanders campaign promptly fire that campaign staffer and delete the data. The nerve!

I mean, unless all you want to read are him just quoting old scripts from Sports Night and West Wing I don’t see a point for an Aaron Sorkin Twitter. He has a hard time coming up with original content to begin with.

As a kid I liked Santa. Because every kid likes a magic being that brings you gifts. But now as an adult who has no children but has to still live under the tyranny of other adults’ carrying on the Santa tradition, I have to wonder what it is like for adults who still want Christmas but don’t want Santa. They want…

Oh but what about Jeffrey, Tracy?

Sounds like we should start referring to smart phones and tablets as “Conflict Mineral Devices” or “Rare Earth Metal Machines”

His name is Carlos. His hair is perfect and we all hate and despair and love that perfect hair in equal measure.

I’ve always found it funny that in television and cinematic portrayals all Roman citizens are pasty white and have accents from all around the UK.

Comedians in Cars getting coffee is less about comedians talking about comedy and mostly about Jerry Seinfeld showing off his car collection and inadvertently showing off how much of a rich, out of touch prick he is.

You know what annoys me about Disney fandom? That everyone who loves Disney loves Disney parks. You know what they love about Disney parks? Everyone HAS to smile. Everyone HAS to be nice to them. Employees aren’t people as much as they are props to THEIR experience. They praise the professionalism of Disney staff,…

Just to point out: Disney owns Marvel and Star Wars. It doesn’t matter if one is more mature over the other, your money is going to the same place.

“You know, my best friend’s husband was an anecdote, and everything turned out fine! Do you trust the government I want to lead?”

Just-In-The-Roux would be a great name for a cooking Instagram