It’s “Kraft macaroni (or mac) and cheese” here.

“Shit, it’s backfiring. Hey, did we say Biden’s like Mister Rogers? We meant to compare him to Bob Ross. Yeah, remember that other earnest dork on PBS, the one with the goofy-looking perm? Always spoke softly because he was a wuss? Also, Biden is a little weakling and a minor character in this whole political drama,…

Stumptown got the ax, huh? It makes sense that they would cancel a crime noir with the potential to explore the deceptively complex and conflicted social legacy underlying the cheerily liberal facade of Portland, Oregon. It’s not as if any related themes might resonate with what’s going on nowadays.

I get the feeling this review is demanding a little too much. The show seems to present itself pretty openly as Gothic camp, and it seems a little unwarranted to expect such a project to do justice to the moral and philosophical complexity inherent in the historical subject matter. It seems akin to watching Abraham…

I relate to this one.

“The company counters that she was laid off, however the no further individuals were let go at that time and Singleton says that the company was in the middle of hiring.”

She apparently has not been living deliciously.

I don’t mean to nitpick, but ... well, actually, I do mean to nitpick, and a toddler would need extraordinary levels of coordination, agility, strength, and composure to kill a dozen people with a handgun.

These people are fucking garbage.

I’m reading this article, quietly reflecting on Baron Cohen’s incisive observations, while my while inner pedant periodically shouts: “conspiracy theories, not conspiracies!”

Re: SBA’s “Death Rate by Age” graph above

“often alleged to disproportionately target minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill”

Breihan mentions it briefly, but I think there is strangely little acknowledgment in general of just how nonsensical the titular speech is. I remember watching the movie as an 8-year-old and wondering what the hell the concept of independence has to do with the world-historic challenge facing humanity.

This is a video op-ed on The New York Times website.

“Walker heard the knocking, I’m not what type of persons doesn’t ask ‘Who is it’ but instead shoots at the door.’

“He’s [...] essentially a Republican himself.”

If it’s good enough for Jonathan Swift, it’s good enough for me.

How about -15 more seasons for Family Guy?

They didn’t all engage in arduous farm labor. She could be some kind of house slave, like a cook or something.

Curiously, Nolan the director often muffles those explanations, continuing his counterintuitive tact of having actors deliver important dialogue through thick masks or under the deafening roar of explosions.