I remember someone charted the appearances of gay rumors about Travolta, Cruise, etc. in the tabloids with when their relationships with the church were strained, and the sudden disappearance from the tabloids (or a burst of CHECK OUT THIS HOT CHICK HE’S MARRIED TO! stories) as soon as they re-embraced the CoS.

“...so if Mack is guilty, the argument runs, then Scientology must be, too.”

Ah, the Giuliani Defense.

Step 1: “My client committed no crime.”
Step 2: “What my client did was not a crime.”
Step 3: “Who among us hasn’t committed a crime?” 

I hear Character Actress Margo Martindale has been committing various felonies the past few years.

Hit menopause. *rimshot*

Three fifths. 

The republicans have already killed two children to get their wall.

This needs more stars. Most of the readers must live in the State of Denial!

*sigh* Calvin’s right. . .

That is... naked propaganda. It’s not even subtle. It is straight up- Soviet style propaganda.

Meg Ryan is a citizen in the Land of Make Believe, when one day a trolley appears with a message, “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

In this version, Mr Rogers and Meg Ryan fall in love for some reason.

Handy infographic explaining the grievances of people who are still angry about The Last Jedi an entire year later:

I’ve never agreed with the Bird being Objectivist idea, not least because of his own words. Superheroes are Objectivist fodder they because there’s no less subtle stand in for the “exceptional” than them. Bird always falls on the side of his exceptional characters, in the end, finding selfishness as a fault. On the…

Will Ferrell gets a lifetime pass for Elf.

By comedians, do you only mean people who’ve done stand-up? Maria Bamford, Sarah Silverman, Tig Notaro, to name some well established ones. Tiffany Haddish, Chelsea Peretti, Ali Wong, Aparna Nancherla to name some more.

Yeah, people are a lot cooler with a rich asshole who rarely discusses politics than they are with a rich asshole who says racist stuff, takes horrible political positions, promotes authoritarianism and is basically running the country in the ground. And people know more about the guy’s personal awfulness when he’s on…

I mean... appearing in an Emmy sketch is hardly “swimming in his slime”

Eh, I’d find it more improbably diabolical if that weren’t exactly what happened. Of course, it was framed as Dushku not having a sense of humor and being hard to work with, but it usually is. And that’s the root problem, it seems to me—a professional culture that demands that women put up with their male colleagues’…