The conflict never quite feels real in the case of Dubai Air or the Roy-Keely relationship, or avoidable in the case of Nate, who, as Myles pointed out, had an apparent need for an unsustainable level of validation that no boss could have met, combined with a determination to read every comment in the worst possible…

Yeah, if you can have a witch burning phone tree, it sorta seems like that should have had other consequences for society. 

I assume they mean streaming any part of the album, including singles. If they’re only counting people who listened to the whole thing end-to-end, the 150 figure is laughable.  I’m over 30, and by that metric, I’ve likely only owned three or four albums in my entire life.

“Best Things”

Some people are for justice on a deep, philosophical level, and some people just had the bad luck to be born into a group that got the short end of the societal stick. Chappelle is quickly revealing himself to be someone who, had he been born white, would absolutely be whining about taking “our” country back.

Gritty fandom is the easiest determiner of whether you’re proud of or embarrassed by Philly’s reputation for having a higher than average number of dirtbags.

Which is a shame, because I feel like she almost comes off better in the original version, which suggests the horrible position female directors have historically been put in when dealing with aggressive, higher status male stars. She checks on the victim and tries to put some rules in place, but doesn’t directly call…

The law is vague enough that the court has some discretion here. It seems to me that it’s unlikely that a court will find that this is child porn given that it’s been featured on t-shirts and record shops for nearly three decades. The number of people that would then be guilty of possessing and distributing it would…

Poor people frequently make bad financial decisions partially because they generally aren’t coming out of environments that teach or encourage sound financial planning, partially because it’s often the only way to squeeze some temporary joy out of a pretty harsh existence, and partially because that’s just human…

I feel like the hole in what amounts to Lawless’s idle speculation here is that it presumes Disney doesn’t want to be seen to be giving fans what they want.  The only “political” angle to this is the one they already explicitly backed when they fired Carano.  

“Hey, Tom, I got you a role as Marvel superhero!”

“Great! Which one!”

“They want to give you your own movie right out of the gate! A sequel is practically guaranteed!”

“Oh, man, it’ll be great to work with Downey and Johansson!”

“Listen, I gotta run, but I’ll have the contracts faxed over later today, okay?”

Yeah, I feel like the narrative for a long time is that directors are all tortured geniuses, and barking orders is just something actors have to put up with at worst, and maybe even an admirable sign of passion, instead of just being kind of shitty and rude, especially on a long-running series where you’re doing one…

Buddhist sand mandalas have been ritually destroyed for approximately a thousand years. “You get no credit if anything vaguely similar has ever been done before” is an impossibly high bar. I kinda like Banksy’s version just because he got someone to agree to pay $1.4 million for it first.

It’s milquetoast enough to make the fact that one of their shows now stars a convicted felon jarringly, hilariously incongruous. It’s a good thing she didn’t come out as gay or something.

I meant Steamboat Willie, but since you brought it up, it’s also ridiculous that a single company can have over 6,000 registered trademarks, including several whole characters, and it’s clearly part of a multipronged approach to doing an end run around the spirit of the copyright laws.

Disney is a monster, and I have some sympathy for Lieber, but Ditko never showed any interest in lawsuits when he was alive. I’d also argue that the families don’t even really intend to get the characters back — Thor becomes a lot less valuable detached from the rest of Marvel and much of his supporting cast — and the…

The over-under on this is officially Flava Flav’s fried chicken restaurant, which made it 90 days.

On the one hand, this is not in a small town in Iowa.  On the other hand, Flav actually went to culinary school.

It’s both. You can be either pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic, and the test could still catch it. In either case, you might also still be contagious, although we don’t really have enough data to quantify the risk as compared to standing next to a symptomatic person.  

That’s what I see happening, too. Watchmen will get discussed, but probably for less time than you might think given its status. It’s kind of a coin flip whether or not Killing Joke gets more than mentioned in passing.

I don’t imagine “here’s all the things we’ve done that’ve pissed off Alan Moore” will get a lot of coverage, but that’ll extra awkward if he’s 50% of the content. Kingdom Come is probably ready to fill the gap.