THANK YOU. It was so quick, but I heard it too.

Damn, I was already wrestling with whether to read this... this review kind of seals it as a ‘no’ (did appreciate the alternate suggestions though).

“Say Jim, that’s a bad outfit!” 

Not much to add to the conversation, but just reminiscing about Ali G, I’ll never forget when he assembled the roundtable to discuss the media—a professor, head of a think tank, Moral Majority-type, etc.—and he asks them in all seriousness if they’ve ever read a book. The indignant noises they make are great as he…

If it ended with him watching “See You Next Wednesday” in a porno theater... yes, I’d love that too.

Or a ghost :)

The Mrs. and I were just talking about how the pandemic is going to change the American culture long-term, and-among so many other things-I don’t think moviegoing will ever bounce back to pre-pandemic levels. We’re going to move to a shut-in culture, and just as people have gotten so used to buying their clothes…

I got it sitting on the shelf, and was gonna read it before the movie came out, so I feel the same way. Now I’ll be able to take a breather after Reaganland.

The thing that gets me is on social media I’m seeing all these pleas from Trump supporters to be decent, pray for the president, etc., when these same people spent the summer posting about how this was all a hoax, masks didn’t do anything, people were mindless sheep for wearing them, again etc. There’s not one bit of…

They really are such craven propagandists. Like they try to put this aggrandizing spin on it, that Trump is a tireless worker to the detriment of his health because he-sniffs-loves the American people too much!

I guess Donald and Melania are nobodies.

Even in that picture Trump’s doing that askew center-of-gravity thing that probably indicates lifts. 

And we saw it four years ago... too lazy to look it up now (honestly, I tend to drink during presidential debates since 16 years ago), but in 2016 didn’t Trump sidestep condemnation of the KKK after they enthusiastically supported him on the eve of the Alabama Republican primary?

Correction, he gave the $1 million to Obama, I think in 2012.

Bill Maher gets a lot of shit here, but he is successful and has an audience, despite the “complaints on social media.” I for one like that someone on our side will take his side to task. Also, as I think I’ve said on this site before, Bill Maher was one of the first to come out against Donald Trump when he displayed…

My friend, who turned me on to the James Bond canon, said back when RM was still alive that it would be a great scene if in a Daniel Craig movie James Bond really screws up, so he has to go before a board of discipline, and when he gets there it’s... all the James Bond actors! We were saying how you could really have…

It was written for the 2008 election, but David Sedaris put it best: you’re on a plane and told that your meal options are chicken, or a plate of shit with bits of broken glass in it. To be an undecided voter at this point is to ask how the chicken is cooked.

Late to the party, but I binged The Plot Against America. I read the novel when it came out in 2004, and could remember most of it. The series was excellent, and while it’s always a shaky proposition to retool something from the past to say something about the present, Roth’s novel fit the current political climate…

Several years ago I was listening to Dennis Miller’s radio show. He had Yakhov do a call-in segment plugging some appearance or something. I was curious, in 2013, what the guy would joke about. He did this new schtick that was painfully unfunny, like to the point where I wondered if it was a meta- thing. It was…

Everyone has their point with his oeuvre. For me it was the shitty hubris of “Lady in the Water.” Unforgivable.