So the tl;dr is Comcast said, “But I am not racist because I have a black friend,” and Diddy’s response was, “Oh, NOW we’re pals?”

Came down here to say this. You know who is investing big time in Sub-Saharan Africa? The Chinese. They are thinking long term about developing strategic footholds in the region, and in addition to investment and access to Chinese markets they are getting military bases (small at first) and intelligence cooperation…

So nothing about the origins of MyAncestry and Ancestry.com are basically fronts for the Mormon Church and their...interesting views on geneology?

Taika Waititi was his usual deadpan funny.

But maybe out water is just...the BEST!

Thyis is the hardest I have laughed at an episode in a long time. Just re-reading “Take your nasty ass to Bing” had me laughing (I am laughing again now). I liked the EDM funeral much more than you (even Davidson’s deadpan manager/usher). The political opener was on point. And I was genuinely surprised how well Styles…

Read the original article about the program. It was not just to “make sure her classmates wouldn’t be exposed” to Dessen’s work. She wanted to advocate for non-fiction work instead of Dessen’s that dealt with race and injustice.

Reminds me of an exchange at my local library used bookstore:

I REALLY miss Shade Court.

By Nelson “going public?” You mean by answering a question to a reporter from a small town paper with a small local circulation? Nelson was not seeking any kind of audience - she just said something to a paper that she probably thought no one would read. This is not even something she posted on social media about…

Like a suburban cargo cult built around a Precious Moments edition of Lean In.

Right, how awful of her to not want a work of YA fiction and instead want to advocate for a non-fiction work about racism and injustice. Yes, that is an awful thing to do.

Pause for a moment - how awesome is it to have a truely unpredictable and unknown Star Wars story, not constrained by a pre-ordained ending? And one that does not simply copy something from before (big death space station to destroy, running from baddies, inevitable “reconciliation” of the force).

I shouted, “yes! Disco Janet!” at my TV. My dog gave me a quizzical look.

Thank you for such a thoughtful answer. I agree with you on BvS, and for pretty much all of the reasons you pointed out. Our TV/film history is pretty much the same (I would definitely add Being There), so I guess it comes down to a YMMV thing. GotG2 was, for me, on par with the first, and I liked both of them. 

That was fast. Monday was jury selection, and I thought, “This will last through Christmas.” Than today, after Marie Yovanovitch was finishing up handing the Republicans their collective ass back to them, I hear, “ newsflash - Stone Guilty.” Welcome news, but a bit surreal. 

So here it is.

This has been SOP for over two decades on the right, and Don “Daddy-please-love-me” Jr merely joins Hannity, O’Reilly, Carlson, Levin, Limbaugh, et al ad NAUSEUM in pulling this crap. It has been the entire reason any of these books has cracked the top 20 on any best sellers list since Buchanan declared the Great…

Random - I thought Stanfield killed it as L in Deathnote. He and Dafoe were the high points of that film - which was otherwise a meh version of the anime.

What do the Loch Ness Monster, Santa Claus, hot Travis Scott verses, and “cancel culture” have in common? They don’t exist!