And what’s so bad about making rich nations give poor nations money?

In your analogy though, wouldn’t accepting that climate change is a thing be the same as realizing germs caused disease? Based on this article, the “consensus” was that humans could never cause climate change, now we know that’s wrong and that we have a new consensus.

So your point is we shouldn’t even try? I’m with you in skepticism of any real world results coming from the Paris accords, but I still support the idea of them and I’m glad that they happened.

If we can accept that Earth was able to rebuild after the aliens had destroyed pretty much every major city on the planet, I’m sure whatever damage was caused by the ships crashing to Earth (remember at the end, they were targeting like third tier cities) would also have been survivable.

In the RNC’s sort of defense, I think they are pretty terrified by this shit too, they just have no fucking clue how to stop it (not to say that they didn’t help start it) and the crazies are either openly hostile to the RNC or simply refuse to listen to anything they say.

Yeah, exactly. Hitler didn’t start violating civil liberties and fucking with elections and stuff until after he already acquired a decent amount of power. The only thing saving this election, though, and probably the US is that none of these people actually seem to want to be president or even crave power the way…

Right, but Amazon’s advertising people probably should have realized that people were going to be too stupid to realize it was an ad, before they pulled the trigger. The whole point of an ad campaign is to get people to want to buy your product, this was not going to do that. Unfortunately a lot of consumers are…

This isn’t an issue of free speech, this is an issue of Amazon realizing that it had put out a shitty ad campaign that completely failed at its goals. You can argue all you want about overly sensitive PC America, but even if people didn’t find the ad campaign “offensive” they still probably found it weird or creepy or…

Glad to help, because as much as I am glad that you love Sirk and love that Haynes channeled him in Far From Heaven that’s not all he is capable of. His films often feel cold and almost too academic, but there is so much happening in them that even if your heart is left a little cold, your brain is engaged so much it…

Probably not. Haynes is not, by definition, a Sirkian director. Far From Heaven was his intentional riff on Sirk, filtered through Fassbinder. His other movies tend to have other influences.

Safe is truly his masterpiece, but Velvet Goldmine is such a beautiful insane and glorious piece of cinema. Where else do you get a movie about how Oscar Wilde is really a magic alien who transmits fabulous gayness through the world through a magic brooch that is simultaneously a riff on Citizen Kane and 1984?

Gurl you know that Hate-retha is the one that’s been buying all those pies up... She gets to come for Patti while stuffing her face. It’s a win-win.

Seriously you guys. The only thing difficult about baking a pie is making crust (which is more of a somewhat annoying process than anything else) but there are plenty of high-quality store bought crusts out there, which are great for when you want to make pie but don’t have the time or patience to make a crust. Making…

Think of the difference in taste between butternut squash (which by the way is so much better than pumpkin if you want to make “pumpkin pie” without canned pumpkin) and sweet potatoes, that’s pretty much it. The added sugar is probably less, since sweet potatoes are much sweeter than pumpkin, but otherwise it still…

Yale is need-blind in admissions and it has one of the most generous financial aid policies in the country (if you come from a family that makes $65,000 or less, Yale is free). I have so many stories from friends at Yale who had to fight their guidance counselors to apply only to find out that at the end of the…

Yeah I feel that, but I think even the crazy parents wouldn’t have much of a problem with that picture, even they would get that its just a cute candid family pic (in a fairly demure bikini) and I think even they understand that bikinis are relatively normal, especially when one is ON A BOAT these days.

That’s why she shut down comments on her instagram. So she could ignore the trolls.

Wouldn’t those parents have a bigger problem with the fact that she stars on a different show featuring a married gay couple?

Yeah I was kind of shocked by that too, since I’ve never seen her not in Modern Family context. It could just be that she’s kind of petite so it just looks really long comparatively, those toddlers are not that much shorter than she is.

But when you think about how much movies make, the profit has to go somewhere. The studio can’t just unilaterally decide to donate the money to charity or something. Actors are a significant factor in the success of a film (and often times, stars like Jennifer Lawrence can be the single factor that determines whether…