I hope you appreciate this takedown of Pete B. as much as I do. I couldn’t quite figure out why he bothered me so much, but I now have it articulated for me by a better writer.

It’s one of those rich people sports that ordinary folks have never heard much about (except once every four years in the Olympics), and therefore, wouldn’t know enough about to wonder how that kid made the team. It’s like schools with sailing teams. Would an average college sports fan know what a typical sailing…

They also smoked a hell of a lot more than adults do nowadays.

Ah, but we didn’t wish cancer on him. We’re merely reveling in the fact that the damage he did to our country is manifesting itself in his body.

That also happened to a friend of mine in college. She was very pissed off at how much nicer people were to her after she lost some weight from being in a car accident and having her jaws wired shut for ten weeks! Whenever she was asked what’s the secret, she’d say, “I had my meals through a straw for the last ten…

You’re overestimating there. The nanny-seeker said, “It’s $35 to $40 an hour. Then there’d be time and a half for any overtime.”

The mother said, “It’s $35 to $40 an hour. Then there’d be time and a half for any overtime.” No way that’s enough.

Slate tracked down this single CEO, and she revealed the salary: “It’s $35 to $40 an hour. Then there’d be time and a half for any overtime.” That cannot possibly be enough for whomever gets sucked into this vortex.

What do you expect from the man who took the ghosts of revolutionaries out of “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” so we could have close-ups of Eddie Redmayne’s face? He doesn’t understand musicals and I suspect he doesn’t care to try.

It was Hooper’s fault. He shot the whole movie in close-ups and wide shots and let Russell Crowe massacre “Stars” and later thunk into the water during Javert’s suicide.

And Tom Hooper’s take on it is not something that musical theatre fans are exactly clamoring for. I remember what he did to my beloved Les Mis.

No, they overturned *some* of the stripping of powers. I appreciate the optimism, but I think it’s unwarranted given our state politics.

As a resident of North Carolina, I can tell you that we worked our asses off to get Cooper elected only to have some of his executive powers snatched away by the legislature. His re-election will be an even harder fight, as will the race for Attorney General, also a Democrat (and Cooper’s former office). Voter ID will…

The President is over 70 and came up in New York City during the publishing boom, has a strong connection to the tabloid media, and is obsessed with his own legitimacy. It’s why he had someone make him a fake TIME magazine cover until he got one because that’s the kind of broad approval he thinks it represents.

I hope he’s not going to repeat that 78k vote fluke, but the Republicans in every single state are doing their best to stack the deck against any potential voters. They know they win when fewer people have a say.

And it only took 20 movies?

I’m talking about main characters. If they’re never vulnerable, there are no stakes.

I can’t really get over the fact that no one actually dies so the stakes are too low. Harry Potter’s parents stayed dead for the entire series, and if they could have just popped back into his life, it would have been so cheap. The same is true for all those superheroes.

Indeed, as if it’s possible to ignore the movies that have elbowed out any lower budget fare like romantic comedies, R-rated comedies, prestige dramas outside of the winter months, costume dramas, coming-of-age stories, and non-Disney animated features. I’m from a small town and our local movie theater only has four…

They are fine, but they aren’t made very much anymore. That’s the analogy I was making. Instead of having 2-3 new movies in one genre each month, we’ll see production of this kind of movie fall off a cliff and 1-2 per year will get a big release. Now that may not happen exactly in the same way because Disney has…