That’s all well and good, but shouldn’t she be available to captain a starship on Bryan Fuller’s new Star Trek show? Unless he manages to get Angela Bassett of course.

Not being an American this seems strange to me, but is the argument here: ‘I can’t vote for this candidate, because someone was mean to me on twitter?’ There’s a lot to unpack here, not the least of which is that nothing that happens on twitter is actually important. I’m sure these guys are assholes, but how does…

I, for one, can’t wait to see Abrams make them go underwater next.

You think Bush would have put Kagan or Sotomayor on the bench? You think a republican president would have repealed Don’t ask, don’t tell? You can call the ACA a heritage foundation health plan all you want, but do you think a more significantly socialised plan would have made it through congress? The Democrats are to…

Not to mention when, after years of hearing nothing but ‘yes, mr Trump, right away, mr Trump’ his coddled ego will run aground on the government bureaucracies, and his whole ‘I’m a business man, I know how to get things done’-shpiel will come crashing down. If he somehow manages to get elected I imagine he’ll resign…

So basically Marvel is worried about bad publicity and went straight for the one director who could make them look better. It seems to me that Ava Duvernay could make a lot more interesting films than the umpteenth Marvel movie.

And a lot of those bodybuilder-types have this attitude that their ability to gain a hundred pounds of muscle means that everyone should be able to fix all their problems themselves. Social safetynets are for puny losers.

My favourite thing about the Dutch baby is that we don’t have them in the Netherlands.

Pshaw, a real huckster doesn't need broth to trick people, all you need is a rock.

Okay, so it wasn't just me. Because my reaction to this is 'I should know these people?'
Ripps seems like a narcistic jerk who can't paint, and good for ms. Ho that she's achieved success on her own, but getting a career out of being skinny and pretty is not exactly revolutionary.

First off I think it's good to remind ourselves that famous here is probably best accompanied with a set of quotation marks. Secondly I think you can probably find other teenagers with popular instagram accounts who aren't "famous" for how they look, but rather by things they do.

Yes, and in America you can get locked up for walking around while being black. This isn't about the outrages of the system, it's simply the way people feel about their country. Plenty of Russians realise that there are definite benefits to not living in the Soviet state anymore. But for the majority the Soviet union…

Michael Gambon of course, barring his turn as Dumbledore, he's at his best playing generally quite unpleasant people.

The issue is not the purges or the gulags, but the malaise of the eighties and the subsequent wilderness years of the nineties. If you want to understand why Putin still has popular support you have only to go back to that period. During the eighties everybody knew that socialism had failed, and that the government…

Well considering the mess that was Russia in the nineties and the awfulness of the eighties, I'm not surprised by Russians still sticking up for Putin. It's depressing for sure, but with the state of the media in the country it's only natural that people don't have a realistic view of the situation.

I wasn't really thinking of the effect on men in the media, but rather the consumers of media. All this trend is really, is the media industry discovering that male bodies can be sold and marketed like women's bodies. The difference is in the subtext, but people's bodies are still being treated as a product.

Excellent point, but isn't the effect of both that people are not allowed to be ordinary people? I mean, yes, women are for looking at and men are to be envied, and all that noxious nonsense, but in both cases, our bodies are not allowed to be anything but extraordinary.

Yeah, as nice as a set of abs is, there's a toxic mix of bullshit that very often comes with it. Lots of boys and young men swallow that crap wholesale, along with their overpriced supplements. And what you end up with is a bunch of effed up dudes obsessed with looks, and a stupid idea of masculinity.

Exactly! Ultimately, I think the best way to interpret 'inbred' is to see it as a reference to people from very isolated environments that haven't moved along with the times. This could mean mutant weirdos from Pennsyltucky as well as chinless freaks with a peerage.

The thing that annoys me is when people claim they don't have time to (learn to) cook, and anyway, they don't care about food. Well, maybe if you actually took some time to learn how to make good food for yourself, you'd start to enjoy it. So often I come across this weird macho-puritanical attitude where spending all…