Maybe, just definitely, Hamas did want Israel to retaliate, which was exactly the point. What’s your advice for the millions of people there who have nothing to do with Hamas, just want to live in peace, and cannot leave?

This story has generally not interested me enough for me to pay very close attention, and for all I know, Dakota Johnson’s description might be taken out of a larger context where there’s something more “toxic” described than disappointment after sky-high expectations (which come off as extremely presumptuous and…

This blows my mind in the worst possible way every time I read about it. The federal government had to approve of this tie-up. How did antitrust officials—who, as their job title suggests, we literally fucking pay to be skeptical of the intentions behind large corporate combinations—end up believing, with their…

Whether the sentiment is sincere or not, the execution is strained and unconvincing. Nobody buys for a second that there is anything weird or nerdy about people who are repulsed by Elon Musk, certainly not in any way comparable with people whose commitment to an alternate reality and willingness to aggressively attack…

I’m waiting for Melissa Villaseñor’s impression.

If I recall correctly, George Carlin was so strung out on coke for the very first episode of the show that he couldn’t participate past the opening monologue.

Family Guy did it.

I’m glad you did a write-up for this because there is no fucking way I’m watching this cringe marathon.

What about the synopsis suggests the show might stigmatize mental illness?

Not only is it beyond played out, but it doesn’t even apply here. It’s used to slyly call attention to something hypocritical or illogical, which this isn’t. I think the issue is that, as others have pointed out, there’s a glaring lack of surprise factor in the story (unless Shigeru Miyamoto has some skeletons in his…

I hope this show finally deflates the dangerous mythology surrounding forensic science, which police procedurals have done more than anything to cultivate in the public imagination. As horrific as run-of-the-mill police brutality and corruption are, the damage they have done to innocent people—in terms of centuries’…

I would add that women generally have more common sense and lack the intellectual arrogance that makes men susceptible to persuasive appeals that flatter their pretentions to jaded skepticism.

I imagine that’s why the amount was doubled. It’s also why Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Anecdotal evidence is, by definition, rooted in a person’s observation of reality. It plays an important, though decidedly insufficient, role in science, and it can be dismissed only insofar as it comes from a non-credible observer or is offered where rigorously scientific and conclusive proof is needed (i.e., not…

I was going to write something similar regarding the “myopic view” comment. How does someone cite another person’s greater breadth of practical teaching experience and then, with apparently zero self-awareness, comma-splice that with an unsupported accusation that they are the one with an impoverished perspective and…

I’m cautiously optimistic about this, with emphasis on “cautiously” until I find out just what kind of comedy we’re talking about. Is it an all-out farce, complete with cute anachronisms, that stupid “casually wisecracking while in the midst of mortal peril” thing that’s been mandatory for all action-adventure over…

Punk musicians and fans commonly expressed an emotional or intellectual hostility to authority in some form, with anarchism being the most common political manifestation of this overall stance in the scene’s early years. To the extent that any given punk adhered to this ethos, it would have been incoherent to adopt a…

It seems there are, in general, two ways one can respond to this. On one hand, you can doubt (on reasonable grounds, from my currently limited perspective) the notion that this person intended to make a racist hand gesture, and you can express annoyance and disbelief that some hypervigilant, self-righteous people…

Regarding my previous comment in this thread: the software took the last paragraph in my post and stuck it at the beginning of the preceding paragraph, so it makes no sense now. How in the fuck can something be this broken? 

There are three seconds of fan service in this whole movie (R2D2 and C-3P0 before the battle). The scenes with Vader serve the plot and add emotional depth to the movie, with foreboding, pathos, and humor in the first scene and sheer terror in the second. In fact, that first scene is arguably the opposite of fan…