I used to go to D*Con every year (in the before times,) and I am beyond disappointed that I’ve never seen an Aaliyah costume. I’ve seen 2Pac, Biggie, and Run DMC costumes on a handful of occasions (and always as part of some kind of group/mashup costume that interpret the celebs as variants of Marvel heroes, Super…

Pediatric cancer is not “a human thing.” It’s a malignant tumor. It is a parasitic, abnormal cell that infiltrates and destroys human bodies. Find a better analogy.

Regardless of whether it would be appropriate has little or nothing to do with whether he’s a movie star with enough name-brand recognition to lead a movie opposite Nichole Kidman. This isn’t about acting ability—good actors really aren’t all that hard to find. Esparza is well nominated in the theater world, but…

Relationships evolve and change - it’s a human thing.

This seems like a small handful of people working in academic or specialist professional spaces came up with new terminology to solve a problem that does not exist--i.e., the problem of child pornography either not being taken seriously, or being misunderstood as consensually produced. Who are these people who do not c…

I liked this guy’s stint on SVU, but he’s got the same problem as Carbonell (except moreso.) He’ a TV actor with minimal film credits, whose profile doesn’t approach that of Kidman’s or Sorkin’s.

They’ve got Javier Bardem playing Desi. As a Cuban-American, I’m fine with this—Desi wasn’t particularly brown, and I can’t think of any Cuban-Americans (a) of the right age to play the part (assuming Bardem’s age is more or less what they’re looking for,) and (b) have a high enough profile to play a lead in an Aaron…

Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche insists that his client’s rights are being violated due to the fact that Smollett has already paid $10,000 bond and completed community service, terms previously put in place through a deal with Cook County prosecutors in order to get the charges dropped back in 2019.

What is genuinely surprising to me around the issue of “body positivity” (or was surprising, before it happened a bunch of times,) is the number of people who come out of the woodwork to say mean things about celebrities (and particularly female celebrities,) after they’ve lost a significant amount of weight. I think…

That something happens often, or is a normal part of life, doesn’t make not tragic. It’s invariably going to be a part of literally everyone’s story—but it (death) can obviously still be tragic, because it’s very often called “a tragedy.”

It is almost a little scary how blood thirsty some people are when none of the people actually involved in the divorce seem to be!

You don’t have the energy to speak up against wrong and the lionization of wrong?

I’m glad Tendler is finding the time and space to express herself and make silly videos, and I hope she gets a jillion followers, meets someone new, and is fabulously happy (same goes for Munn and Mulaney.) 

I get how alarming this is, but it’s not all that different from every technological innovation that gets turned towards an anti-social or prurient purpose. CD burners are great, but how do you keep people from ripping and copying their music for their friends or re-sale? The internet is great, but how do you keep…

You don’t know as many lives ruined by Iraq/Afghanistan

The comments here are more or less what I expected. I get the hate, but don’t quite get there myself. I don’t expect that anyone who gets as close to real power as Powell did to get out clean; every Sec Def, NSA, Sec of State, and President may as well be Genghis Khan or something. I just don’t have the emotional…

I would defy anyone to find a part of the Atlantic article that says that Texas’ present abortion ban (and other legislative efforts similar it,) isn’t “that bad”. It is a specious and bizarre take to imply it’s some kind of misguided fifth column attack against fighting for traditional, in-person access to abortion.

The incidents I’m thinking of are (I think) both blackface related; I happen to think that the grievance is pretty legit against 30 Rock, and that the grievance against Community is an overcorrection (problematic-ness of the Drow notwithstanding.) But that’s neither here nor there; it should be easy enough to find a…

Additionally, Sarandos’ insistence that seeing violence, assault, and abuse on television doesn’t translate to “real-world harm” directly contradicts past practices of Netflix. In March 2017, the series 13 Reasons Why premiered on Netflix, based on the YA series of the same name.

That’s all for part two, right?