I mean, it would have been funny if he’d attributed it to Superman II...

Hard to say. I’m pro gun control, but I’m also the son of an academic and a school teacher who grew up in the San Francisco bay area.

I mean...it’s a book. And yeah, when you love a book, e.g. carry it everywhere and read it constantly, it’s going to get beat up. I don’t think equating reading a book in the bathtub with abuse is a particularly insightful statement.

Mitt Romney may have bought them all out.

I look forward to Trump’s name being used in a future Saturday NYT crossword clue with the answer “InsecureSinecure”

I think I may have had one of these. I definitely remember the commercial for them. My mom refused to get us any toys with guns, so I had to figure out which action figures were gun-free. I remember I had Soundwave and a couple of his “cassettes”.

Hah, of course, though it might be worth looking into stuff like Preacher where he’s producing but is not writing or acting if his goofy humor and presence does not appeal to you.

I don’t recall where, but I think I saw something (probably on Twitter) that showed that Kanye had donated a pretty large amount of money ($1 million+) to various BLM charities and activist groups. Not saying he shouldn’t use the considerable weight of his voice as well of course.

Beside the point but: “Four-flushing”?

My pick for best song in Dumbo is Pink Elephants (which I assume is not the not good scene you’re talking about - that belonging to If I’ve Seen an Elephant Fly (or whatever that song is called)). Pink Elephants has been stuck in my head for 40 years - I couldn’t begin to tell you how “baby mine” goes.

I don’t think it’s a miniature town, or at least not the way the first image suggests - the cars are evidently real and functional, so you could walk around. It’s a little more like Main Street USA in Disneyland.

I don’t see anything about the character of Superman that is canonically white. Also, dismissing people who want to explore different ethnic backgrounds when casting a character whose actual “ethnic background” is “alien” as “PC Babies” is pretty shitty.

There would have been no reason for “Superman fans” to have gone “crazy” other than “race”. Like what do you think the nature of the shit Smith would have taken have been? Completely unracial? 

Yes, some of the defining touchstones of our current pop culture and the things many of the actors in them will be best remembered for is exactly equivalent to Jaws 4.

If they have buttholes I’m in.

I can no longer...grow large.

Yeah, I can understand why that clip was popular, but even before the “great men” stuff towards the end, the fact that we start with believing that college students (you know, “the youths”) are so vacuous that one would get up and ask “why is America the greatest country on earth” and evidently be completely surprised…

Not funny per se, but I always liked “If you’re dumb person, surround yourself with smart people. If you’re a smart person, surround yourself with smart people who disagree you!”.

I never saw the second one, but the first one is just gloriously hilarious. My favorite part is when they are exploring the ice-locked ship at the beginning and begin merrily tossing black powder everywhere. It’s like there was a challenge: “You have a frozen ship surrounded by frozen water. How can you make a giant…

I just find it frustrating as fuck that “open the economy” vs “save lives” has become a completely politicized false dichotomy. The fact is that if the economy collapses in a way that takes a decade to get out of that’s going to cost a lot of lives, and if we can’t get a handle on testing, tracing, and containing the…