I actually like when I get a totally different reading of characters from my teen years to adulthood. Especially when I find the story captivating, just from a different angle. Rushmore was that way for me.

I have never heard anyone say anything good about John Cusack in person; at most, he was cordial. Just a self-absorbed, entitled dick.

I occasionally feel conflicted about the death of record store culture. I was definitely a person who frequented stores searching for highly obscure gems. There was a lot of joy that came from discovery.

So what I understand you to be saying is that shared political views either are a small or inconsequential component of your relationships with other people.

I am not a fan of Michael Bolton's music, but I feel a bit sad that he's been mocked so mercilessly over the years that he's decided to treat his career as one big joke. It's both a betrayal to himself and a betrayal to the people who were genuinely moved by his songs. Because portraying yourself as someone to be…

"'I'm a cisgender hetero male, and as many of you know, I'm on the autism spectrum …"

He got roughly $2billion more in free news coverage than a dozen current and former governors and members of Congress who were also running for President at the same time.

That would've been 100% true in 2014. Unfortunately, the media didn't see it that way and gave the tabloid and reality tv show star roughly $2 billion of airtime.

They both did some wonderful stuff, though Moore's stuff has been better able to transcend the period it was written.

Rather than literally or video-game punching people like Milo and (especially) Spencer, maybe we'd be better off ignoring them?

That's how I always used it. I think that's how it was typically used until recently, when it started being used for political purposes.

"Snowflake" is to the right what "mansplain" is to the left: a useful term that quickly became rendered meaningless through overuse and abuse.

Who?

They also outed someone else a few years later (not getting more specific than that) for no greater sin than that he was related to a government official. They were horrible.

The idea that anyone would find something astute in the AV Club's more "politically conscious" articles is amusing to me. Really, there are very awesome social commentary sites from a progressive point of view, produced by actual journalists and scholars. This isn't one of them.

I wrote something similar without seeing your comment. Really, I wonder how many long-time readers there still around who remember how awesome AV Club once was. Maybe if you weren't around for Nashville or Bust or We're #1, you actually wouldn't bat an eye at the regurgitation of an internet meme or a reprint of a…

#17: The AV Club's descent into a Gawker-like media property devoid of the originality and humor that made it a must-read just a few years ago. The amount of articles, ostensibly from a site devoted to music and the arts, that are little more than props for the writer to express banal political opinions to an…

The Heritage proposal and the Affordable Care Act were very different, except for the individual mandate components.

I'm sorry, I don't equate "slightly liberal" to "crap." Liberalism isn't crap, but this Fiona Apple song sure is.

There are many things I'm not looking forward to in the coming years, and the Trump protest songs are near the top of the list.