Man, for someone writing in an objective way, you sure are wrong about a lot of things.

No one on the right actually believes in free speech. They only believe in freedom from consequences for themselves and those with likeminded opinions. The idea that they have any kind of moral or logical high ground on this issue is laughable. As is the idea that anyone—be it a university, a traditional media outlet,…

I think each season’s been getting better and better. It’s a show that made no apologies about wearing its heart on its sleeve and I absolutely adored it for that reason. It took Troi’s advice to Data “that emotions aren’t good or bad; it’s what you do with them that counts” and showed how empathy is the absolutely…

In the sense that it makes sense to hire a famous name to attract audiences, sure.

can i be upset that Janet Jackson’s career was ruined by an exposed nipple or does that make me a terrible fucking person who didn’t go to college?

Okay, my take is that Hook is an uneven movie and those who like it and those who dislike it each have valid opinions that aren’t worth going several comments deep to defend with such trollish (heal thyself) bile and bad faith.

Boo souls!

On most days, I think Age of Innocence is his best film. I think some folks saw it as Oscar baiting and didn’t see it for what it is.

I like that the author of that Popeye section obviously never saw the cartoon the movie was based on, and complained that Williams mumbled his dialogue. Like, yeah, dude, that’s what Popeye does. 

My exact thoughts regarding Popeye and this list. I mean, for Pete’s sake, a number of these movies, including Miami Vice, Bad News Bears and, yes, Popeye, have good write-ups on this site. So, how can they be terrible films?

“Banter”

Cool! I can immediately dismiss this list because the first slide is Robert Altman’s amazing live action Popeye movie. Like I’d give you the Prairie Home Companion movie or even though I like it OC and Stiggs but not Popeye.

Miami Vice is hardly Mann’s worst film and is, in my opinion, his most underrated. It’s fucking awesome.

Too true, unfortunately. I definitely didn’t account for that.

OK. I actually didn’t know precisely what the stated reasoning was on separating kids from mothers in prison. Thanks for discussion!

Yep, having a kid when you know you’re going to jail really is. Luckily, anyone in jail who has a kid can see them on visiting day. Offspring aren’t a Get Out of Jail card, they’re a responsibility. One that she wasted.

Yes, but “suspicious of the mother’s motivation for having children in the first place” is not why the government separates mothers and children in the prison system, either. Both systems, incarceration and DCS, theoretically do this on the assumption that either the mother is an unfit parent or the environment is not…

Again... what would be your threshold for incarceration as punishment? Madoff’s kids were both fully grown when he went to jail and look what happened there.

Oh my. Elizabeth Holmes is only in jail for securities fraud because that’s all they could get her for. What she did is much much worse, both harmful and dangerous. Telling people you’ve perfected a method for analyzing their blood and then knowingly sending out false results (for things like, say, cancer diagnosis or…

It’s interesting as a litmus test just because there’s a much more expansive take than the binary “he’s a hero/he’s a villain”, and that’s that he can both be sympathetic for facing issues everyone does and sometimes wishes they could rail against, while also being an example of someone going off the deep end in a way…