Eventually, eventually, we’ll have to concede that the people who back explicitly racist candidates by making explicitly racist statements and advocating for explicitly racist policies might be... racist.

Given recent history, I question the ability of anyone — let alone a reality tv show executive — to successfully thread that needle.

Is the psych eval screening out unstable people... or screening them to make sure that they are included in the show? It’s hard to tell; if I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say that any psychological screening is done primarily to identify what “buttons” a contestant has so that they can be triggered effectively…

Those types of bills are introduced routinely and they don’t seem to have any effect.

They wouldn’t care at all. They probably wouldn’t even notice the correlation, and they definitely wouldn’t budget enough resources to care for the kids.

Good. This sinkhole thing was a heavy handed metaphor from the beginning and I don’t think that we needed it.

Probably not. The privacy thing was based on a complex network of constitutional and statutory interpretations; im not sure the same thing exists in the US Constitution with regards to bodily autonomy.

It probably never occurred to anyone that he would actually run. People are generally used to smiling indulgently and patting him on the head when he starts talking.

Linc woulda won in 2016.

Yeah, I’m certainly not saying that reboots in general are beyond reproach or excused from criticism. I wouldn’t mind so much if the criticisms were based on the quality of the reboot, but a lot of what I heard about the Charmed reboot, the Ghostbusters reboot, etc. implied or stated that the reboot was an attack on…

It’s weird, but this is a perennial issue with reboots. Fans of the original (and I guess actors in the original) always view the reboot as some kind of replacement (or even a desecration) of the original. This is true even if the original is still around and even if the original cast doesn’t have any interest in…

One thing I find interesting is that the Office of Refugee Resettlement is Scott Lloyd, who has been in the news a few times in the past year for personally and aggressively trying to block detained minors from being able to obtained abortions. The Washington Post has a profile on him here:

The only good thing about Spicer is that he was clearly unhappy and I could enjoy watching his discomfort and exasperation. It was like he was suffering with the rest of us — not to the same degree, of course, but it was something.

Oh I’m definitely not ruling out the possibility of human trafficking or slavery. I was just saying that the source article is less certain than the write up above. We don’t actually know that the kids are actually missing, only that the government doesn’t know where they are and hasn’t heard back after trying to…

I think it’s more likely that they didn’t keep proper track of to whose custody they were paroling children. The story doesn’t confirm that any individual children were handed over to human traffickers, but the fact that HHS doesn’t know where the children are or if the people who took custody of them were actually…

I would be shocked if they haven’t already made this episode even before the event itself happened. Aren’t they on their twentieth season?

They shouldn’t have bothered. I don’t think Spotify or any music company is prepared to investigate and punish crime. They have a right to try, but any policy that they come up with would become unworkable pretty fast. Wasn’t Mariah Carey accused of harassment a few months ago? Are they going to evaluate those charges…

It’s not even like Weinstein has done anything to atone. The idea that forgiveness should even be something that victims are asked to consider is mind boggling. It’s been, what, one day?

It’s a shame that innocent man Harry Weinstein is going to prison while serial rapist Harvey Weinstein does whatever the hell he wants with impunity.

To clarify, McConnell objected to making Congressmen liable for discrimination settlements. The harassment piece was fine with him, according to the article, but he wanted to leave out the discrimination part. I’m not sure why the author of this piece lopped off that clarification since it kind of raises questions of…