The Daily Mail IS a total joke, but they did not invent that story. It is pretty easy to verify and it was. They would have been better off claiming “close to 100 doctors”. It is also a stupid metric. You can get a thousand various scientists to doubt climate change, and that does not really mean shit.

You are correct, but to be honest, but I think the “performative” comment refers to the fact that neither of them loses that much by pulling out of spotify. Neil Young’s royalties and other income still come in, and his current money from Spotify is a small percentage of his income. For many artists these days Spotify…

I also wonder, why kill Blue Sky and then still make this? It is not like Ice Age went out at a massive height of popularity. Curious if the series this was developed for was well underway at the acquisition and they decided to just use it for a cheap film, or if the series was a Disney call in the first place.

Surprisingly they seemed to nail Sid and Manny. I wonder if Diego is a weaker match for Leary, hence not having him speak in the trailer, or just the way it worked out.

In Soviet Russia, Google watches you!

Actually I have heard the idea that all the big foot myths are potentially ancestral memories like you describe, so who knows on that front.

Exactly. Interestingly, SFGate references a lot of their stories from the writers on this site.

I don’t think there is any actual evidence that dwarfs or pixies for example were inspired by people with genetic conditions. The reality is that believing in spirits is probably as old as humanity, and believing that small spirits of various types live in the trees, mountains, or under the ground in tunnels and caves…

Yeah, no. They are NOT ashamed of their animation. And hell, Disney and Pixar films bring in millions from adults without kids every year. They keep making live action versions because they own the rights to all of this stuff and it is easy money.

These aren’t humans of short stature or presenting traits of dwarfism. These are fantasy dwarfs. The kind that work underground and mine for gems and the like. They are no more problematic than Gimli in LotR. They are not comparable to the depiction of the crows in Dumbo, or Native Americans in Peter Pan, or asians in…

She went out, got something from the brother, went into the bathroom, came out, passed out, and died in her sleep. Most likely from an overdose. You say that why did they not have that information in 24-48 hours, but actually we don’t know that they didn’t. The article says that the family is getting independent…

Yeah... but the character of Jiminy really is more of a Disney creation. In the original story the cricket is just referred to as “the talking cricket”, who Pinocchio kills immediately with a hammer for trying to give him advice.

Yeah, I kind of feel like the score is Brit: 0. Jamie Lynn: 0. Nobody REALLY cared about this book, and Britney would have been far better served to ignore it. Now it at least has the air of “Britney really wants to quash the revelations in this book!”

So this article mentions that he was charged with assault and battery, but it was a lot more than that. He was actually charged with: Assault and Battery with a deadly weapon, Assault and Battery with a deadly weapon ACAF (after committing a prior felony, which typically carries a minimum 10 years in most states), 2…

Everyone else in that situation is already holding a deadly weapon, the car they are in. First act should be to hit the gas and run him over before he can keep potentially killing people.

Exactly. Every one of those bullets was a decision to attempt to kill the person in the other car, and to risk the lives of everyone else in front of him.

I mean, that is pretty obviously hyperbole. It is currently fucking easy to vote. Just show up, or mail in a ballot, or have someone take it in for you with a signature, or drop it in a box somewhere, or .....

I don’t know. Tuskins have lore as being very hostile to outsiders they come across. They are few in number and raid for subsistence. The first thing they do when they see him is attack him for his stuff. So I don’t think Luke was all that bad to think “Those guys are best left alone”.

I am sort of surprised by this take on Jezebel. The guy has a known history of bring prickly in general, and downright hostile to women in particular. For some reason (I assume because of a dislike of Pompeo) this became about race here, but this should have been about a known dick flying off the handle on Pompeo, and…

You can say a lot of things about Zero Dark Thirty, but it did not portray torture as successful. It mostly fails, and the only strong lead they got out of it leads to the death of a lot of their people. In the end, the only good lead they get comes from the guy they DON’T torture for the info.