Without pedophile guy running against them? Probably none, for sure.

Eh, let’s not gloss over the fact that Doug Jones legitimately sucks, though. Don’t get me wrong, if presented with those options I would have gone with him and I’m glad he did win. But he spent his first week after the election talking about how actually the monstrous tax bill isn’t that bad and Democrats shouldn’t…

I certainly don’t think people will be unable to look it up on Wikipedia. But these things have a way of being “forgotten” by the broader public, just saying. I think shows like this would and will be a useful document of the time in which they were made; for one thing, it’s a useful reminder that celebrities who had…

I mean, if they replace culturally important works outright? Yeah, not a huge fan. Spielberg and Ridley Scott have done the right thing by insisting on DVD/Blu Ray sets that include the original versions of their films (objectively historically important works) along with their later re-edits, and that’s definitely…

I mean, that’s probably true, but I think we’re overestimating the typical layperson’s ability to find these things, and I would presume that the new versions will silently “replace” the originals in Disney’s archive. (Something Disney has a long history of.) The original Star Wars films are some of the biggest films…

Wasn’t TJ Miller on this show too? I wonder if they’ll scrub him out as well. More importantly, I genuinely hope they scrub him from Ready Player One before that releases.

The piece of art ITSELF is the history. Come on, dude, you’re being willfully dense here. No one thinks the events in works of fiction are anything but; it’s the actual work itself that is a piece of history. Gravity Falls probably isn’t super important in the grand scheme, but you know, Gene Kelly was basically a…

Come on, no one is stanning for Louis CK here. No one is offended by the idea on his behalf. The question is whether we want to alter past works of art that have questionable aspects to them, including performances by problematic people. There’s a larger question of preserving works of art as what they actually are,…

The man’s 80 years old. Fisher was only 60. He looks pretty good for how old he is.

I think they’re just out of the news because they’re old hat - there’s no real point in keeping something like Trump University in the headlines if there aren’t any actual new developments with it and it didn’t really change anyone’s mind anyway. I mean yeah, it was objectively a scam, but what do we do with that?…

Trump is definitely the worst, but he also gets plenty of coverage. I honestly can’t imagine that there is much that the media is actively ignoring about him at this point (unless they just haven’t uncovered it just yet). The news is pretty much 24/7 Trump coverage at this point, there isn’t much they’re going to…

The fact that you think the Brookings Institute of all things is still a credible source on anything really says it all.

I completely agree with this but would add another problem with that film: the repulsive poor-shaming message of it. I recall there was a scene where some interviewee (who is presented positively by Spurlock, as someone he agrees with) suggests that in the same way that we shame smokers, we should be moving societally…

Deadpool was never in danger. There’s already an established first film that was a major hit, so there is no reason for them to mess with that. However, this merger is still almost undeniably going to result in the (continued) decline of “adult” films. I don’t think there’s much way around that.

Different situations. Although Disney having this much power over the market (including Marvel) is concerning, Marvel wasn’t a giant conglomerate in the same way as Fox. Most of the fears were about fanboy stuff and how they would handle those characters, not with the fact that the amount of actual competition between…

I was genuinely a fan of Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show, but it made my head hurt trying to figure out why on earth he had Mike Tyson on as a revered guest on one episode, especially when his hatred of Bill Cosby was literally a fucking running joke on the show.

I kind of agree. Not every sexual assault can be described as rape necessarily, but there’s been a bunch of cases recently where outright rape has been alleged and yet it’s only described with the slightly lesser term, which feels minimizing, like describing murder as a “violent assault.” Even weirder is where you…

I imagine so, but it’s pretty dreadful behavior regardless. And the allegations (which, admittedly, are not specifically substantiated, other than the court documents) of spousal abuse are....not great.

They’re well-worn stories at this point, but basically he shoved a female producer in a lake out of frustration at one point (she says it was “playful”...but still) and in another incident threatened to hurl her across a parking lot and I believe did actually hurl her sunglasses across it. Even his friends and…

I mean, I’d be genuinely sad to have Pulp Fiction and Saturday Night Fever permanently tainted. But....yeah, this is fair generally.