As noted, thank you for slogging through these. The EU books are nice to know about, but I’m not letting myself get drawn in again unless someone gets Stackpole (second choice in that regard, but... you know) to write a Black Squadron series.

“Some things definitely don’t add up, especially if, as many people expected, Rey (who does not feature in the book, for obvious reasons) really was trained at the Jedi temple and witnessed the Knights of Ren’s attack firsthand.” Is there any confirmation that Rey’s vision was the past? I’ve seen a theory that Rey…

I was talking more about Pollock than Picasso, but there’s always a line between avant garde and gimmickry. In my opinion these two artists specifically tread that line, and as fame and demand increase so should skepticism.

How patronizing.

I know this makes me a philistine but I’m really not overly impressed by art because of an extensive backstory or potential for examination of each of its elements. Picking an intense historical or personal subtext and then placing a bunch of vague, symbolic elements on a canvas — literally creating unlimited…

Agreed, conditionally. The president sets the agenda of the majority party (when he/she leads that party) so it’s not as if the president just sits around waiting for bills to sign. And even when the president isn’t leading the majority party, look what happens - what has Congress been up to for the past eight years?…

It's depressing how partisan the American political system is. No one (on either side) uses their brains. They're all just doing what they need to do to keep their jobs and keep the money flowing to their campaigns.

People have got to stop freaking out about voting for the President.

Stop saying that. You’re wrong.

“Sexuality is pretty damn important to the entire Star Wars saga.”

Actually the franchise was literally born of immaculate conception.

Of course, if Anakin had been gay, the entire series would have ended sometime before Episode 3.

To be fair, beyond a couple of pretty specific and story driving examples, how do we know that there aren’t people on screen that are queer?

When reading that plot summary, I think Christain Slater's expression in the photo above is the perfect fit.

to be honest I’ve been inoculated from fear living in SF. Butch women are not nearly as common as gay men of course, even here, but SF is aware we exist so I’ve never had a problem. Once or twice I’d get a double take from someone very old, but then they’d just go back to washing their hands. My concern really stems…

A friend of mine works for an Australian Olympian and we have been mocking the Australian uniform for weeks. It looks like a barbershop quartet had sex with a boarding school.

I’m not even sure how someone could see this as racist, and by the looks of it not even the writer, they don’t point any problem with it, only that is “potentially offensive,” now every picture of two people with different skin color is “potentially offensive”? This is the problem with equity problems, people tend to…

Sadly, there are many who profit from inflaming race and culture based conflict.

Why is using a gimmicky trend just harmless fun when you swap faces with somebody the same color as you, but somehow racist if you should *GASP* dare to swap faces with somebody that looks different? Get over your racist assumptions. Do the swapped faces look weird? Sure, but not any more weird if I swap my bearded…

I get the whole blackface thing, but this level of trying to make acknowledging differences in skin color taboo is even more offensive in my opinion. Is having brown skin supposed to be a bad or dirty thing? If my white friend and I swapped faces, it would be hilarious, but I wouldn’t be all sad because I’m not…