My point really wasn't "Salon rules and Patton Oswalt drools." It wasn't a full referendum on a publication and an entertainer/human being. In fact, I don't generally read Salon and I do generally like Patton Oswalt. However, I thought this specific argument which he made in a specific venue was incredibly juvenile.

A lot of companies also offer predatory truck leases that can leave drivers either with pennies on their paycheck or in the red after working more than 40 hours a week: https://www.usatoday.com/pa…

Why did people want to drive without seatbelts so badly? A certain segment of people just never want to be told what to do, no matter how eminently reasonable the thing they're being told to do is.

Well, if caring about protecting vulnerable people in this country is lame, then I guess I'm just a big lame.

As i already said, the pursuit of political "coolness" is inherently self-defeating. One reason the left became less "cool" is because their ideas became more mainstream.

As i already said, the pursuit of political "coolness" is inherently self-defeating. One reason the left became less "cool" is because their ideas became more mainstream.

I think I officially realized I was an adult a few years ago when i read an interview Patton Oswalt gave to Salon where he espoused the same sort of juvenile attitude towards PC scolds, that being "We used to be the cool punk rock Lenny Bruces, shocking the normies with our left-wing shock tactics! Why can't we do…

The lyrics on the title song in particular are also deliberately referential of male-penned songs which glamorize abusive relationships ("he hit me and it felt like a kiss;" the reference to "Jim," the male half of the abusive love affair in Lou Reed's Berlin). I think she's very often doing some interesting…

I think this is probably the case - in particular the second one. Like, when he said Assad was worse than Hitler, I really doubt he was thinking of any specifics of Hitler's evil beyond "Hitler is literally the Hitler of terrible people."

Things like this paint the entire medium in a bad light and also help to keep people away. …if shit like this keeps women away, it will never change nearly as much as it needs to and that would be a tragedy… I just want more people to realize that and help move the whole thing forward.

I'm just saying - that Charles Manson, he had a dream and he did his best to make it happen. I think we can all learn a little something from him about sticking to your guns and never giving up.

Of course, much like the rest of his "accomplishments," it can only sort of be considered "his" book since he worked with a ghost writer. There's a part from The Art of the Deal where "he" said "Roy [Cohn] was the kind of guy who’d be there at your hospital bed long after everyone else had bailed out, literally…

Yes, I'm sure that if we all stopped making fun of him, the rest of the world would just stop noticing things like Trump being easily manipulated by other world leaders, behaving like a rude child (as when he shoved himself in front of Montenegro's prime minister), and completely failing to understand crucial issues…

He gets to kill progress on forensic science, not defend voting rights, and help cops seize more assets from innocent people, so I don't think Sessions cares that much about Trump's tantrums.

Part of my sarcasm in my original post was because every comic fan knows what this article is talking about. I

He wasn't defending Hitler - he was just saying that Jews weren't Germans, and were therefore clearly some sort of outsiders in a country that didn't belong to them. Therefore killing them wasn't as bad as killing "his own people."

Guy Baloney was never heard from again.

The guy calling it "baloney" is wrong, though - Spicer tweeted that he's going to continue through August.

I was trying to figure out why he would consider silliness "over the line," and then I realized this is yet another example of the literal mouthpiece for the White House being an exceedingly poor communicator. That said, still a bit rich for the guy who speaks for Trump to call anything from anyone else…

I watched SLC Punk a lot in my early twenties because I lived with a friend who loved it. Matthew Lilliard was the biggest name in it so I don't think it got a lot of theatrical attention. It must have done well enough on video, though - they made a completely unnecessary sequel that nobody asked for in 2016, 15 years…