I’d add Community to the list.

Liam wasn’t elected to the highest executive office of a state. He does not hold literal, enormous power over a large African-American constituency. Liam is an entertainer with no influence whatsoever in the day-to-day lives of black Virginians.

This season is streaming on Hulu (in USA at least).

I couldn’t even find a way to WATCH this show online. 

Yup. Also, why choose two words over one? Just “first.”

Journalists: stop with “score,” as in “scores of protesters.” It is confusing, imprecise, archaic, and cliche.

Wonderful piece. To echo another commenter, I hope you keep writing as an art, skill, and enrichment (I take it from your username that you do).

Fun too that they heavily advertised it as a Pulp Fiction homage. What an extraordinary bait-and-switch. (Plus, Abed was a perfect Andre).

Novelty of a white/British rapper. That is all. It briefly allowed white hipsters to briefly listen to rap, despite writing off rap as a genre due to internalized racism.

*without old Dick (even better)

The hearing should have ended, and his nomination canceled, the second he said that.  

My mother, the loveliest and most personally caring person I have ever known (and also one of America’s white women), is a Fox-News, lifelong New England Republican, even though her personal values are in truth against just about everything Republicans (actually) stand for.

True, but investigating and impeaching Kavanaugh—even if it is the right thing here—would set a disastrous precedent. Once we start letting the majority impeach the minority’s previous appointees, the country is at long last irreparably broken.  I mean, it probably is already, but you know.

Attempted sexual assault at the very least. The allegation is he pinned Ford to a bed, put his hand over her mouth to suppress her screams, and tried to take her clothes off.

The Democrats sat on Ford’s allegation for one of two reasons: (1) political expediency (as you conclude) or (2) at Ford’s request (as she and Feinstein claim).

“we should probably pump the brakes a bit on assuming”

That Melies head is a Game Boy Camera nightmare come to life.

Isn’t that just more reason to be concerned about what Trump is doing?

DUMB^

Of course rap is music. Even under your definition, as Unreallstic accurately noted, just about all rap has melody, harmony, and rhythm—what else do you call what is happening behind the rapping? The only appreciable difference between rap and other pop music is that the vocal generally acts more as percussion than as…