His committee work was unexceptional. I’m not saying BAD, necessarily. But unexceptional. He was never notably different than your average Dem would have been. I’m not a big fan of Kamala Harris (whose record as AG was pretty conservative if not outright horrifying), but I would just note that she replaced Franken on…

He was replaced with an average Democrat, which is basically all he was to begin with. Portraying him as some invaluable progressive firebrand is laughable. He wasn’t AOC; he wasn’t Omar or Sanders or Warren either. He never significantly moved the needle on any issue. He was a typical Democrat who voted with typical…

Indeed, what I’ve heard from some progressive/leftist writers I follow, like Kathleen Geier, is that they know journalists who had a bunch more women ready to come forward. The eight that did were probably just the tip of the iceberg.

I mean, a lot of the work was probably done before the Sonic trailer actually came out. But yeah they’re fucked. 

His first week on the air he gave time to Joe Biden who still believes in the war on drugs and “regime change.” You need to start your disappointment a lot further back because those are at least equally disqualifying. And Biden is the most obvious example but it’s not like he’s alone among the field in holding…

It’s funny. The common refrain against her is that she engages in ridiculous woo woo spirituality bullshit and isn’t great on scientific topics including vaccines. All those things are true, but (speaking as very much NOT a supporter of her) no one has yet to explain to me how those are disqualifying and say a “tough…

First off, this is an A+ comment.

Second, to be fair, the problem with both new Lion King and Cats is that they are trying to look photorealistic when it would be better to just embrace their weirdness with something more stylized and unreal. These are both trying to have it both ways which is where the uncanny valley…

One of the best comments on this trailer that I saw elsewhere was basically to the effect of “I’m an actual furry and this trailer is deeply unsettling.” Even they don’t want this. 

I love Tarantino but it did strike me as a harsh comment. Pegg’s naturally been asked about it and I think he was just voicing whatever he heard or understood to be the case. 

Kill Bill is absolutely one film. I mean, I don’t watch it that way, but that was always the intention when it was made. Splitting it up was a studio decision, not his.

He tried to destroy/damage vehicles. Which had no one in them.

In Animal House they’re lovable sleazes. That could be problematic in its own way, but I do think it’s different from endorsing the behavior. And it was partly satirical.

I mean, he works with Azaria on the show.

Actually, now that I look into it, he did have an award rescinded a few years ago for beating his wife. 

I mean, I don’t know of Me Too allegations or anything, but Andy Breckman (who went on to create the show Monk) has said for years that he’s an insufferable asshole. It’s a pretty funny story actually: http://wfmu.org/LCD/andy/americanpie.html

I wasn’t the OP who listed them. I was just responding to the specific things you said in reply to that person.

Mike Reiss’ book outright suggested that Azaria had stopped wanting to do the voice explicitly because of the public heat he was getting for it. 

Don McClean was apparently enough of an asshole that I could see him writing that for real. 

In fairness to Animal House, the sleaziness of the characters actually is the joke. Parts are certainly uncomfortable now (the angel/devil sequence is still sort of funny but at least equally disturbing) but I don’t think it’s like all the ripoff films that followed where the terrible characters are unambiguously…

As far as Clockwork Orange goes, a better comparison might have been to the fact that it inspired some copycat crimes at the time (Kubrick pulled it from circulation in the UK for a while in response). And I would say to this day there are some idiots who think Alex is a cool dude and not being a subject of critique…