I'm also willing to float the notion that, in your sense, morality has just plain never really been binding, as the transcendent good was only ever an invention to influence behavior.

I can't accept that without serious quibbling over "transcendent." Serious enough that it pretty likely becomes a wrong word to use.

I suppose I'll say because it's out of place.
What you've called desacrilization is a historical trend that applies quite broadly throughout at least the Western world; I'd call it an aspect of progress. Sex predates religion and will likely outlive it as well. Morality doesn't require the decrees of prophets or…

Is this a serious comment?

A fair cop.

There's a Hunter S. Thompson quote I wish I could call to mind about when circumstances call for calling someone out rather than just blandly commenting, and most of what I see the media doing regarding Trump is much closer to the latter. It would be entirely appropriate for "mainstream" sources to be actively…

As well they should — that's just minimally adequate reportage.

As of now, Trumpism is meaningless without Trump. And he will lose the election. But the terrifying thing is the possibility of someone following up on the shit pile he's built by pulling together an actually considered, calculated movement, minus all the direct "go fuck yourself"-isms that have kept Trump from…

But in the absence of direct protest at rallies, the media outlets you're talking about would not be focusing on the "rightness of the cause." They'd just be ignoring dissenters altogether.

I don't understand any of the claims you just made after "the left is more diffuse." How has the period when Fox can get away with being Fox ended? How is there a "progressive industry" similar to Fox?

It looks like my "you're right, good catch" didn't post, so you're right, good catch.

I suppose… But his surviving the situation felt so wuss-tastic to me that I don't even remember what that good deed was.

I can totally get someone finding The Cowboy corny. He's alright, but I wouldn't put him on a Lynch characters all star team by any means.

Oh, you're right. Good catch.

The first time I watched it, I couldn't get over my feeling that it was too similar to Lost Highway, which I'd really loved (and still do). And then I must admit that I first came to appreciate it on its own when I sat and watched it really, really loaded.

I too would avoid any reruns from the last season of Roseanne — except for the finale. Which wasn't "ambiguous" at all, in fact it explained exactly why they had gone with all the weird, unbelievable plots throughout the season.

It feels like you're just being obtuse about a great movie.

I also rarely make it to the end of Asian Teen Rides Monster Cock.

I turn off training day when Denzel has left the pussy-ass white boy in the hood, pretending that the filmmakers hadn't tacked on the "make sure the bad man gets his comeuppance" ending.

I spent several years in a newspaper sports page job that I didn't think I would get, but applied to out of simple need for employment. I am genuinely, deeply interested in 2 or 3 sports, and so disinterested in the rest that, upon being surprised by getting (and accepting) the job, I had to secretly have my dad…