The Seinfeld made me think of another detail: I recall the summer of ‘98 being the height of that “No soup for you!” thing.

If I’m recalling correctly, Tony Schwartz, the author of “The Art of the Deal” said Donald Trump asked for a meeting with him after he (Schwartz) wrote a story about Trump’s housing interests. He said he was surprised because the article painted Trump in a bad light. However, he later found out that Trump was…

Just the other day I heard someone make a disparaging comment that basically stereotyped all security guards as lowlifes. I thought to myself, ‘c’mon, that’s kind of unfair to stereotype a whole group like that.’

Hell, I remember the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. And that’s totally appropriate because of how much it did, in the summer of ‘98 become just as much a pop culture item as any movie, i.e., the What-do-we-tell-the-children!? hand-wringers, on the opposite end the But-is-what-they-did-really-sex? apologists.

Oh sure. Entertaining enough, and a good, creepy performance by Brad Dourif. 

Pardon the tangent, but I was literally just thinking about this:

I wonder how many people in America, like myself, see these stories and think, ‘Oh no, Dario Argento’s daughter is involved in some sort of sex scandal!’ 

So basically this Republican candidate is complaining that he was hit with a surprise left?

As I heard someone say this week: “The enemy of my enemy is Omarosa.”

Agreed. Donald Trump is the living embodiment of something conservatives have done very successfully for many years: convincing poor white people that they have more in common with rich white people than they do with poor black people... even though continuing to think that is not only fucking absurd but also anathema…

I remember thinking “A Scanner Darkly” was one of the better and more faithful PKD adaptations, so hearing a couple years ago that Alex Jones was in the movie sure elicited a hearty WTF.

He literally said this: “I am a proud non-reader of books.”

Color me another skeptic. I remember from having to read up on the case several years ago that throughout the decades the FBI has gotten a steady stream of “tips” that usually amounted to something like ‘You know, I think my late uncle was D.B. Cooper. I was only 10 when the hijacking happened, but my uncle was just…

NFL protests = protesting police treatment of minorities.

That stuff went down when I was in high school, but, yeah, I still remember it well enough to be astounded at how everyone thought about Dan Quayle at the time, ‘Wow, how could someone so obviously dumb achieve such a position of power?’ 

Some may question what the Russians do and don’t understand about our culture, but I’m pretty sure they have a perfect grasp of trolling. 

Sometimes I’m hesitant to wade into such takes, but I gotta say: after studying the above pictures, I think the thing that most strikes me is how these are a near perfect distillation of “white privilege.”

I thought about this when seeing clips from Trump’s rallies this week, and now this article:

Maher had D’Souza on his show a couple years ago (maybe it was when the latter was promoting his Hillary movie). Things got awkward when Maher brought up that very thing and (paraphrasing from memory, here) came out and asked ‘Why didn’t you have my back in that?’ An uncomfortable D’Souza got really shifty and…

It almost looked like Alex was liable go to commercial and punch his fucking jaw loose.