It’d be interesting to try to catalogue all the pop culture references people have made to explain what’s been happening in this country the last couple years. I’d heard someone refer to “They Live” as now that the bigoted feel emboldened, it’s like we’ve all put on the glasses and can see who among us is actually one…

I also heard someone yesterday call Franken “Al Frankenstein,” and it struck me as a pretty obvious anti-Semitic thing, or what I guess is called a “dog whistle.”

American Psycho.

Of all the stupid things Moore’s lawyers said yesterday, I liked the one where the newscaster (forget which one) asked the lawyer why Moore said that he dated only with mothers’ consent, if he wasn’t dating underage girls, and the lawyer responded that that was something Moore did not matter the age of the women he…

“World Peace is None of Your Business” was not one of Morrissey’s best albums, to be sure, but it wasn’t all bad. The bonus tracks were pretty good.

I heard someone make a good point: if the pee-pee tape came out tonight, and we could all watch it on TV and online, it would be a non-story a week from now, because that’s where we are.

He knows that with the Roy Moore thing he has painted himself into the ultimate cable-news-personality corner: lose viewers vs. lose advertisers.

He always has been a voice of reason at Fox, e.g., just a couple days before Obama “released” his long-form birth certificate, Shep Smith looked into the camera and said (paraphrasing from memory): “Oh, by the way, Obama was not born in Kenya, he was born in Hawaii.”

There’s no better way to say I-mean-business! than demanding that someone prove a negative.

Gohmert’s chart reminds me of the post-9/11 Onion story “Government connects Kevin Bacon to al Queda”

Whether it be talk radio or cable news opinion shows, advertisers are incredibly important. I think Hannity’s change of heart, after he seemed to applaud the boycott, is due to someone making him aware of a simple concept: if you go all mafia on your advertisers, i.e., “you don’t just leave us... without…

He’s been Donald Trump’s son for an incredibly short time, a really short time. They only talked about adoptions.

Don’t know exactly what form it will take, obviously, but I’d really bet on Donald Trump throwing Jr. under the bus at some point (especially if it would save his own ass... even if for a little while).

I hate to say it but I can see this guy still being elected. There might be some hue and cry for a while, but he’d eventually just blend into the GOP senators, e.g., see the guy who assaulted that reporter, and is now serving not a sentence in jail but in Congress.

You gotta recognize Philip K. Dick. It’s been a while since I’ve read his novels and short stories, but I remember them being replete with invented religions. Because of “Blade Runner” probably the best-known is the animal worshipping one from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”... and if I’m recalling correctly,…

The very dependable norm is to eat before going to a concert and then drink during the concert.

I forget who it was, but many years ago on the AV Club message boards someone responded to something I’d written with “No, what you need to understand is that Morrissey is a giant fucking asshole, and this is coming from someone who owns everything he’s ever recorded.”

“Greetings”

I really am starting to wonder how much of his life he’s lived in his own reality, and to what extent... some of my theories reach absurd levels that I know couldn’t be true, but then I think that it is possible that because of his money and celebrity and sycophants they could be true, and probably are.

A woman president? Sure that would be good, just so long as it’s not a particularly ambitious woman.