I do not understand what the problem here is.

Under the religious logic, viable doesn’t mean what you think it means. They operate basically on the dichotomy of dead fetus or not dead fetus. Because miracles. So they will wait up until the very last possible moment, until the mother’s life is in imminent danger, before they act. That’s the only way they can…

Okay, so, here’s the thing: I get it. If your core, central belief on which you base your entire life holds that any kind of interference with a pregnancy is equivalent to murder, these policies make sense. What’s some suffering/discomfort compared to the literal life of another being and, potentially, your immortal…

At about 3 weeks pregnant (I always knew very early), I had horrendous abdominal pain. I couldn’t even stand. I was in bed, sweating, and couldn’t move. When I was sent to a (Catholic) hospital, the nurse who did my intake asked me basic questions: name, age, previous pregnancies, religion... when I mentioned I’m…

The American Puritan Ethic is like a cursed cultural zombie that will never die. 

Well, a big part of the show is that she is fucked up and the show is her journey to realizing and owning up to it. I think that fact that she’s imperfect and selfish at times while caring and sympathetic at others makes her more real and relatable.

While I really enjoyed Fleabag from the start, I do think it’s a work that deserves consideration as a whole. Coming to the end of the first season and looking back over it is a much different experience than taking it episode by episode. But, I watched one episode of Modern Love and noped right out of there, so I…

This is amazingly accurate but it would have been just awful:

But saying “I’ve never seen and never will see an MCU film” and then going on at length about why they’re bad is not the best place to write a critical analysis from. 

Scorsese argues that he makes films that are better seen on the big screen, and I believe him.

They are the people who believed that the public would reject outright racism/sexism/evils of all sorts and insisted on couching that language with dog whistles of “economic anxiety” or even “makers and takers”. This is why the GOP kingmakers that gifted the public wet sacks like Rubio and Jeb! were shocked to find…

Those officials want to preserve their fact-free conservative bubble, and distend it over that county.

Politics has always been tribalism. For most of human history it was explicitly nothing else. The idea that politics could be anything more - could be a constructive, unifying force - is a concept of liberalism that is fading away as liberalism fades away.

That’s why I’m so afraid of the outcome of the impeachment and the 2020 election. The way we’re going, I’m not convinced that arresting congressional democrats, anyone really, who opposed the president and trying them for treason, sedition, whatever, isn’t out of the realm of possibility. If the far right sees an…

It’s also to ease the mental anguish for the professional class about voting for such gauche turds. You know, the type that works insane hours for insane compensation in hopes that their grandchildren can live like dukes and duchesses. They’re voting for their estate, but they also know gay people and a lovely Hindi…

“Fake News” is one of the most idiotic things that a person can spew in defense of things that they don’t like.

He’s made documentaries about cinema, why would he stop “talking about movies he’s not a part of” now just cause it makes fanboys mad?

Melania is the third wife of a wealthy man with a history of adultery and sexual abuse. She knows exactly where she stands, and so do we.

Taxi Driver is trying to elicit a response from the audience, but it’s not trying to elicit a specific response. It’s not providing emotional guardrails to guide you to a predestined conclusion. Scorsese gives you the space to work through that yourself. (Which one could hypothetically argue is actually a…

yeah. i was listening to westwood one’s broadcast and it was the funniest thing i’ve heard. kevin’s play by play was the greatest radio!