American lives were saved as a result of the bombings.  Japan attacked first and refused to surrender.  You mess with the bull you get the horns.

Good to hear Oppie isn't shown to be a great guy.  Having read American Prometheus, he really comes off as insufferable at times.  He didn't regret making the bomb he just felt it should have been used once and never built again.  Which is terribly naïve and of course didn't happen.  He also kept going on about blood…

Same here - when I got to “influencer” I upgraded my opinion of the headline to “Miranda Lambert Was Right.”

Okay, with the addition of this one I’m ready to move beyond “Miranda Lambert Has A Point” all the way to “Miranda Lambert Was 100% Right.”

I was on the fence about which side I was taking, but “the actual women taking the selfie, influencer Adela Calin...” settled that...

That is the statement of a person with zero self-awareness. In other words, an (aspiring?) influencer.

There’s a clear right (Lambert) and wrong (these audience members) here. If a veteran performer is distracted by your behavior, you went too far.

I’m less interested in the boomer/millenial trigger of whether taking a selfie is a god given right than in whether a performer has the right to call out behavior she finds distracting (answer: yes). And whether a self-admitted group of women in their 30s to 60s can handle someone criticizing them (answer: apparently…

The performer noticed. That’s disruptive enough.

“I almost never side with the fans but this has big PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEE energy from Lambert.”

As soon as I saw that the person taking the photo during the performance was an “influencer,” I didn’t need to see anything more - although the excuse that there “wasn’t good lighting” before the show would be frickin’ hilarious if it wasn’t delivered with such blithe sincerity.

Honestly, to answer your first question, if you look at the pictures ... yeah, it looks like it. They were in the second row, dead center. Six people stood up in a seated area, faced away from the artist during a song (probably for a decent amount of time), and took pictures with a flash that was presumably pointed at…

It absolutely can. I’ve been to multiple comedian shows in venues as big as an NBA stadium that required you to lock your cell phone up in a pouch.

Bless her heart. If you’re a woman in your 30's to 60's and still describe yourself as an “influencer” chances are you still very much are immature and vain.

Yeah I was a little on their side until I saw that they were taking a big ass group selfie in the front rows while everyone else was trying to see. That’s just rude. Also why do you need the world to know that you had “the best seats in the house”?  You call yourselves “grown women in their 30s to 60s,” so grow the…

Oh, well, it was an *influencer*, not a regular punter, so I guess that makes it alright! I hope that Lambert apologized for interfering with their work and damaging their clout.

Doesn’t matter. Don’t do stupid shit like this at shows.

That everyone in the picture isn’t white.  They won’t directly say it (though some are bold enough to nowadays) but that’s really it.

He is super obnoxiously religious, his religion just happens to be outside the mainstream. (I know this because I just randomly know someone who is a member of this faith and it’s a whole thing. They’ve gone to religious conventions that Rainn Wilson has attended and spoken at.)

Even in the later season 2 million per year is very good money but after taxes, his agent, manager...etc etc....it probably was just hundreds of thousands. (Which is of course a great deal more than most of us normal people ever see.)