This is good. The longer you go beyond 6-8 years, the harder it gets to keep going strong if you are a show that has character growth in it. A lot of shows have figured out how to avoid completely jumping the shark if they go that long, but even if those shows have a hard time offering poignant story arcs and avoiding…

I don’t think the tax cuts are as unpopular as a national abortion ban would be.  Something like 75% of people support Roe and would not want to see it overturned.  Meanwhile something like 50-60% of people really hated the tax cuts based on what I can glean.

That may have been true once, but not anymore.

Eh, it can happen even if you are doing a good “low and slow” cook. Sometimes a small part of the flat of the brisket is just too thin to hold up and if you don’t trim it before the cook no matter how much spritzing you do and how well you keep it away from the far end of your fire, some little bits of it will char up…

Eh, maybe. Abortion is still widely seen as something that should be legal, but Republicans may be able to get away with state bans in deeper red states without much trouble. Making a national ban takes abortion from being an issue people may disagree with Republicans on and still vote for them because it’s not a…

Sometimes just brushing them isn’t good enough especially if you over-charred some of the food.

In a number of red states they are, anyways. What’s going to happen is abortion access will still exist, but you’ll either need to live in a state that doesn’t institute a ban or be able to drive/fly to one.

True, though the problem with dirty grill grates is less living bacteria and more carcinogens from left over charred bits that doesn’t burn off.  Scrubbing it off more frequently (like once a week or once every other week) keeps that from becoming a super messy job.  It also makes it easier to manage grill…

They didn’t need to target the building — except they really weren’t targeting Hamas.

This contraption seems really cumbersome.

Not necessarily but it could be. There’s a fairly decent chance Democrats lose the House (one thing the fairly optimistic OP didn’t address at all is the fact that the House majority got slimmer), and the Senate is a tough but more evenly matched fight, as of today.

The funny thing is, if she’d just had that reaction, she would have been fine.  Do we seriously think people who care about workers on her show are the ones who have supported her ratings for decades?  I doubt it.  

Yes, there are fronts of the “culture war” and on social policy where progressives are winning. But those wins are not necessarily permanent. Fast growing segments of voters come from fairly religious and conservative backgrounds. They may continue to tolerate a level of pluralism where gay marriage continues to be…

Republican policies don’t work and everyone knows it. Demographics are shifting to make the US a majority minority population. The culture war is over and has been for a long time - conservative sensibilities are seen as weird and deeply offensive, and rightly so. The Republicans are in a fight for survival, and…

Oh honey, you couldn’t be more mistaken. I’m a black man who’s just recognized that the new ways of thinking about Anti-Racism are closer to a mental disease than a coherent philosophy of how to fix oppression and racism.  They prompt young writers like Beth here to constantly signal that they think certain people,…

If you are trying to write to an audience where one of it’s central tenets is “White women are the worst! Don’t be a Karen! I read White Fragility!” then it’s not bad form, it’s just what you have to do in order to not have the audience turn on you like a rabies infested dog.

Read the tweets directly without this article and it’s painfully obvious that’s exactly the case. Come back around and re-read the Root post and you’ll find yourself cringing that someone paid to write about the happenings of social media so badly missed the mark on what they are covering.  

I don’t think he’s conflating the two, I think the Root is confused in their belief that he’s talking about “cancel culture” at all. Read the tweets as a continuous statement and it becomes pretty clear he’s talking about “getting cancelled” in the context of creators being worried about their shows getting cancelled…

Of course bad faith actors talking about “cancel culture” are just that, bad faith actors. Whether it exists and does actual harm is probably not usefully tested by measuring the words of disingenuous little fuckweasels like Josh Hawley.

Eh, if this is bullshit, then all of marketing and advertising of any sort is bullshit, and I certainly don’t think Jezebel would try to actually make that argument with a straight face. (Though maybe they would.  I don’t think we’re dealing with the brightest crayons in the box around here anymore).