Yeah, Mare covers the relationships when she reaches out to Billy about going with her to notify the dad (also I assume why they have different names—McMenamin vs. Ross). Incidentally I feel like the omnipresence of extended family relationships/cousins around everywhere is one of the things that feels really, really…

Yeah, I gotta say, a lot of the assumptions people make about how animal agriculture is uniformly destructive start falling apart when you look at producing beef on native range ecosystems that evolved with large, generalist herbivores.

That may be your perspective, but it’s certainly not shared by all of us who live in work in GOP-run states. I guess I’m just asking that regardless of whether their personal feelings are fatalistic, folks not treat places and communities as irredeemable or lost when a lot of us are here living, working, trying to…

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Nobody should have to leave their home and talking about “evacuating” progressives from conservative-majority communities is reductive, condescending, and as unhelpful as when people talk about colonizing low-population red states with blue voters. Help us fight instead. Donate…

Counter counterpoint: this is not to specifically pick on you, but as someone who lives in a deep red “flyover” state, I’m pleading with people to take a different tack on stories like this. People live in places for lots of reasons and there are some wonderful things about Arkansas, truly. Some of the bravest people…

At least lifelong Sox fans have their obnoxiousness forged out of actual suffering. Yankees fans have been pissing the rest of us off for decades because really what hardship have they known?!

Honestly, progressives need to stop focusing solely on the federal level. So much effort is needed at the state level, especially with state legislatures. Granted I work in a red state, but it feels often to me like progressives/Dems/moderates/etc. just are completely behind the ball as far as realizing how important…

I mean, school board members are public (generally elected) officials. I respect the hell out of people doing public service, but this isn’t anymore acceptable than it would be if a state legislator or governor’s staff was doing it.

Forbes:

I’m white and I definitely can’t speak for Indigenous people, but here’s some information that I think will help you contextualize what you’re talking about.

I actually think this may happen a lot sooner than the end of the series. I have a suspicion he’s going to wind up showing his face to Grogu by the end of this season. Meeting other Mandalorians who can nicely explain that he actually belonged unwittingly to an extremest cult and that Mandos are actually okay with…

I’ll definitely watch it but yeah, I have been troubled by the pacing and the issues with communicating some of the key things going on, including but not limited to daemons. The casting is excellent and seeing the story and world brought to life with such a thorough eye for detail has been great....except that…

Standing ovation. I’m not a naturally neat person. I get preoccupied with work or a project and put off doing dishes or forget to put away mugs or whatever. It takes conscious effort on my part to clean.

Thank you, this is beautifully said. 

Counterpoint: the knife fight was cool.

So I had seen the Lynch version but I had never read the novel and decided to finally take the plunge recently (as apparently every millennial in their 30s did during quarantine?). I didn’t get the Chalamet casting (I’m pretty agnostic on him as an actor, although he was excellent in Call Me By Your Name) before I…

Some of us live in the “middle of nowhere” and are already nervous about what this pandemic is going to do to our small rural hospitals as cases tick up. Even if they travel without having it now - and that’s a big risky “if,” given that asymptomatic and mild cases seem to be fueling a lot of the spread - they could…

I love...pretty much everything about The Good Place, but the first thing that comes to mind for me as far as favorite arc is Michael’s journey throughout season 2. The ways in which his exposure to the humans makes him better, how they keep trying to help him be better even when he semi-actively resists it - it’s so…

Yeah, these moves are not giving me confidence that the people in charge have any idea what works and/or has worked in the past on this show. Orlando Jones and Gillian Anderson were the showstoppers of season 1 and made people want to watch (and honestly I don’t think the show can ever top the riveting, feverish power…

Yeah, not to nitpick characterization too much, but I’ve been pretty disappointed with how they handled Lyra and her relationship with the Gyptians in general. I remember her being super eager to meet John Faa and immediately taken with Farder Coram, right? And I feel like we never got a proper introduction to…