Must have *hated* /Blazing Saddles/

Next to whom does Trump look like *not* a fuckwit?

I've never liked "they" as a singular, but it's the least clunky of the alternatives IMHO. I usually try to phrase my writing in a way that avoids the issue.

Unfortunately, they *won't* "just go away" because people who know they're full of shit ignore them. Because unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don't know they're full of shit, and as long as they're left to do their thing, they'll keep recruiting more assholes. Which if all they ever did was talk shit, it…

The Jerkass Woobie produces a different visceral reaction: you'd like to punch them in the face yourself and you also want to hug them and say, "I'm so sorry that your life is such a mess."

No

My word processing and copy editing talents, not to mention my OCD, are going to waste in a law office in San Francisco where half the lawyers don't even want me to fix their documents (the half that need it the most!). I would be thrilled to jump ship for a full-time copy editing gig at AVClub. And they need what I…

"If God were a villain, he'd be me…"

A very different generation

The Germans who settled in the Midwest in the mid-19th century were liberals (at the right end) to communists (at the left end) - '48ers, veterans of the 1848 revolution, the one Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in advance of, to outline the role the communist movement should take.

His dance moves in this movie are exactly the same as in Charlie's Angels, but he does a lot more of it here. Which is a good thing, because he's fun to watch doing that shuffle-and-spin thing.

I love Grosse Pointe Blank, and when I saw this my mind immediately went there. This movie (particularly its lead characters) has a lot more manic energy where GPB is more depressive & contemplative. The soundtrack of GPB is more up my alley, being an '80s kid myself, and each of the songs speak directly to the scenes…

It's a bit of a twist that Pryor was unfavorably compared, on account of his drug use/abuse and notorious difficulty to work with, and his "working blue" and talking uncomfortably about race, to the Good Negro with the squeaky-clean family-friendly (even while humorously recounting stories of violent child abuse) act…

As someone on the far, far left, I'm with you. One of the left splits from SDS in the '60s (before my time) created the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee as a front, which were still kicking around when I got into left politics in the '80s. More than one of my lefty Facebook Friends(tm) uses John Brown as an avatar.

The only problem I have with Reconstruction is that it didn't go far enough. The Union Army should have stayed until they could be satisfied that the local Unionist militia were well-enough armed, trained and organized to fight off the terrorists - and hung all the "lost cause" reb leaders who were organizing the…

I read that Smithsonian article before I saw the movie as well. I liked the movie, and wish more people saw it (and still hope it catches on in the disc/streaming market) - but even there, my main hope is that it engenders a deeper interest that leads more people to read this article and more about anti-Confederate…

I liked The Postman back when it was first published in serial form in either Asimov's or Analog (I subscribed to both at the time, can't remember which one it was in, and the information is strangely missing from the Wikipedia page even though I requested it nearly 10 years ago).
The whole Cyclops thing, while very…

I've heard Pennsylvania described as Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, and Alabama in between

it lurks in the background of one's expectations before one has actually seen the movie. After I saw it, it didn't anymore, for me anyway.

Damn shame about Free State of Jones. I thought it was a good movie, and I know it's an important movie - now more than at any time since Reconstruction II. I hope it does well on video/streaming.