I really hope this is just the first step in NBC figuring out a way to void their contract, never airing the Globes again, every other major network turning them down, and the 2022 Globes airing live on YouTube to an audience in the low hundreds of thousands, after which the HFPA disbands.

I am genuinely curious where you got the idea that the US has ever reduced annual AIDS deaths to “a dozen.” I don’t think it’s ever dropped below 10,000 a year since the epidemic first gained steam 30+ years ago.

I have only ever heard that Beyonce is a professional, classy lady. This kind of rings true as something she might say to Victoria Beckham. Destiny’s Child might have started in 1990 but they didn’t hit it big until the late 90s, so they still had plenty of room to be inspired by similar, more successful acts in 1995…

And she will cling so hard to the lava-god-based religion because it really is the best match for her values. 

I saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in a theater that was packed. A big group of people were sitting in the front/middle of the theater making a ton of noise, shouting back at the screen, etc, during the previews. When the main feature started, this group fell silent and after about three minutes one of the women said…

If you think it’s appropriate to join a work-related meeting while you are mostly naked in a bathtub with the camera on, I’m not sure what to say. “At least he wasn’t actively jerking off” is not the best standard to apply.

Keep in mind that these are people who very often simply lack empathy. They can’t understand why people make decisions that they, themselves, wouldn’t make, so they feel free to invent insane explanations and to reject the explanations given by people who actually have the lived experience. Part of me (the empathetic…

She is an actual celebrity with her own career, although granted not as big a deal as Malek. I think it’s a little melodramatic to call her a “parasite.” While I agree that her behavior is not super classy here, the reactions to this story (that photo might have genuinely triggered Rami Malek! etc) are really proving…

I’m sure the avalanche of defamation lawsuits that the Post seems to be actively fishing for will finish that job.

There will always be some segment of the population that can’t be vaccinated, or for whom the vaccine is ineffective. So actually, the idiots who don’t get vaccinated by choice aren’t just going to swap it back and forth with each other; they are helping to ensure that the unvaccinated-by-necessity will still be in…

Some years ago I read a truly astounding essay about how the sequence of commas in the second amendment “clearly” indicates that the framers did not actually mean anything by the phrase “well-regulated militia.” It was a very closely argued, very detailed essay that reminded me of a passage from a linguistics thesis. I…

There’s another article I read that claims the child grabbed the cat’s leash, dragged him, and tossed him up in the air. The story is just all kinds of confusing at the moment.

Somehow I have a feeling this guy demands to be called Commissioner Collins 

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This makes me even more certain that during the next 4-8-12 years of a democratic president, no justices will retire or die.

She posts mysterious strings of characters and everybody talks about it. Her instagram posts often prompt multiple blogs. We are talking about her right now.

a) studying anything where one twin has different circumstances than another twin is, like, the gold standard of science gold standards, so I’m glad they managed to design a study like this although it does confuse me quite a bit; also, b) did a journalist getting paid by the Austin American Statesman REALLY spell…

I guarantee you that people masturbate to the LL Bean catalog. That doesn’t make it ipso facto softcore porn.

Do you think any woman modeling revealing clothing is also engaging in sex work? That’s arguably titillating for profit, even if there isn’t the “soliciting” aspect. The manufacturer making the bikinis in the first place is arguably titillating for profit. This is why I find the comment about sexy vs sexual so…

It’s possible she leaked things to the press, but Cheney isn’t the one who initiated the investigation 9+ months ago and she has no say in whether he is or is not about to be arrested. I actually get disappointed when I see articles like that, because I always think theres a 50-50 chance they are wrong but now my…