Is it just me or does the term "control" seem a little loose for a study that admits that the results may be skewed by wealth inequality? (Poor people age and die much faster than the well-to-do because most poor people in this country are barely above slave status, they don't have access to health care, they are…

All I know about the current canon is what was in the movie. I was kind of hoping Lando moving in when it was apparent things weren't working out with Han was already the backstory.

How in the fuck is Billions still airing?

As long as we get at another appearance of Billy Dee Williams as original recipe Lando in one of these films, I'm OK with recasting the part for movies taking place further back in the past.

If you look at how policy positions poll with the general public, the liberal position is almost always the majority position. In a democracy, that would lead to liberal policies. Most scholarship now makes a strong case the US is actually an oligarchy—it's a proven fact that our "representatives" do not listen to…

Uh, Stein isn't anti-vaccine. Also, isn't weird that both during the primary and the general election, the Democratic Party has been using red-baiting to bully people out of considering choices outside the Establishment-backed candidate?

Honestly, if they went with some sort of gonzo adaptation of this plot point that spliced together a typical awkward first sexual encounter with vivid hallucinations of Narnia that fade away over the the course of the encounter, I'd buy a ticket.

In fairness, the movie does a weird thing of splitting the difference by kind of making the punishment angle make sense while gliding over the details of the punishment.

Giving the villain immortality can work as a proper and only slightly unconventional ending. You just have to commit to the idea of making the end of a movie aimed directly at kids a more cerebral version of Watership Down, i.e. show kids why there are much worse things than death.

I was just about to comment that this is probably the novel you'd want to adapt if you were legitimately trying to reboot the series.

You keep singling out the dialogue. Are groaners like "let's just say I put 'em in a hole and threw away—the hole" and "my job is to get people to act against their own self-interest" pretty representative of the dialogue in the movie?

It's a mild form of entrapment, like when cops park outside of bars after last call and pick up people exiting the bar for public drunkenness. They're essentially punishing the patrons of the establishment for engaging in the activity the establishment is designed for and licensed to promote. It's lazy, hypocritical,…

Wasn't Paul Reubens whacking it in a porn theater? I'm pretty sure that's the context and why it was controversial. If the guy on children's television was whacking it in a mainstream theater, I think people would have been calling for his head rather than making fun of him.

Given that he's in the habit of doing taped interviews from his home, I doubt that he'd have that kind of setup. Of the two, the basement is the most believable.

I think that was a private in-joke between those two but you'll never find me in an argument on whether or not Sean Penn is a massive piece of shit in general.

If you compare criminal conduct while in office, you have a point.

Sean Penn famously tied Madonna to a chair and beat her with a baseball bat when she let him know the relationship was over. Oddly, especially given how fucking sanctimonious he is in public, this is never brought up in MSM discussions of Sean Penn.

I wasn't defending pulling it or anything else on Breitbart specifically but under the assumption that you were at least partially educated in Arkansas during the Clinton administration, I'll let it slide. (Obvious digs at AR aside, I grew up in public schools in California when those two were in power nationally and…

You really love making unwarranted assumptions and poisoning the well, don't you? The list was copy and pasted from the Wikipedia entry on the Clinton scandals. (Admittedly, lazy, but when anonymous people on the internet ask me to back things up, my reaction usually isn't exactly "Oh, joy! It's been far too long…

"No, you're just regurgitating Conservative talking points" is literally regurgitating Hillary for America talking points on how to address criticism of the candidate. It's condescending and not remotely true, which makes it bad messaging.