That's not what happened and not even the official Clinton campaign version of what happened. They don't even deny the story changed a few times or that they bungled the handling of the issue.

I think it's a legitimate issue because of how often the story of why she collapsed changes. Until they realized somebody didn't do their job and keep anyone with a cellphone away from an unobscured view of the van, they denied anything out of the ordinary happened. Then it was overheating. Then it was dehydration.…

And that's exactly why he hosts the Tonight Show. Jay Leno got the gig after being the Doritos guy for a reason. GE and now Comcast are in the war profiteering and consumer exploitation businesses. They need a guy who can entertain the lowest common denominator of society while being, at heart, the most spineless and…

A lot of it is just dick-measuring between executives. If the movie people are using a character, then the TV people can't use it, for example, which is why Rosario Dawson in the Netflix shows isn't technically Night Nurse.

Ah, yes, Gotham. One of the things I seem to actively repress.

The way the movie and tv worlds of Marvel relate is fuzzy. Basically, they are conceptually the same continuity but the TV and movie people are executives with such toxic personal relationships that they might as well be separate studios.

I think they chose this iteration of the character because the car obscures your view of him and allows them to both use him AND cut down on the SFX budget.

Beecher knocked him out with a spare piece of equipment first. So it was more passive than that.

I have a hard time thinking anyone who was a friend and collaborator of Carson McCullers could be truly snobby. Mean-spirited? Sure. Snobby? Not so much.

In teaching—and journalism—in America today actively trying to make what you do less shitty is a fast-track to a short career. The shittiness of the curriculum is a feature, not a bug, to the owner class of society.

I think it's the corporatization of film and the theater that gives the impression we aren't producing great writers anymore. When the only things that get produced are the things with the backing of big money and focus-grouped to appeal to the widest possible audience, you aren't going to see good art very often.

He also was gifted at adaptation and refreshingly modest/honest about his own insecurities. He claimed he gave up writing poetry for writing plays because he wasn't a very good poet, for example.

I've read a couple articles on there that seemed like a legitimate version of this site's take on the food scene—but that section is just them experimenting with product placement, right? The sheer number of major fast food chain articles makes it seem like product placement.

Californication was, hands down, the worst show about writing life AND the worst homage to/riff on/adaptation of Bukowski I've ever seen. And I've seen Factotum.

The Mandarin. To the point that the studio retconned the character in an officially distributed short.

The Empire Strikes Back is the only film in the entire series that goes significantly above "competent fantasy movie." And the degree to which Lucas reportedly resents that is just weird.

It starts off extremely dark and slightly unconventional and slowly builds up to campy and off-the-rails, balls-to-the-wall batshit insane by the last few episodes of the season. (There's a name game sing-along, Ian McShane as a murderous Santa Claus, a hippie commune situation ending in axe murder, etc.)

Pennsylvania wasn't a Confederate state. Florida was. If being on the side of the CSA during the Civil War doesn't make the state Southern, what does?

What turned you off about it? For me, I think the aliens are the weak point. They have literal angels, demons, and God in the story AND aliens from an advanced civilization that they portray as atheists and they just do not explore that tension at all.

I kind of wish they had committed to it and decided to skip straight to the sexpot version of the character without recasting. The image of regular Gotham viewers having to process something like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver with super powers is hilarious.