I wonder if the screenwriters knew that Clea Duvall was a closeted lesbian when they wrote all the homophobic lines directed at her character or if that was just a coincidence. That aspect of the story must have been very depressing for her.

Yes! Mean Girls is basically a documentary.

I really do believe that Haidt believes what he is saying and says it in good faith, but he is ignoring key causes of depression among young people and zeroing in on campus antics is a distraction from greater problems. Like it or not, it is a political act to erase the root systemic political causes of these issues…

At least Bauer’s template is a real, believable person. Franco only gets roles because people confuse pretty with interesting, which he is not.

Good riddance to CC but it’s a shame that he didn’t kill one of the Francos before checking out...

It’s very creepy. Irene comes off as naive but it’s pretty gross to invite someone who just left rehab to stay at your place and then make a pass at them. 

Just get a dildo and be done with it.

Can Renate sue the creeps who lied about her in their yearbook? She’d easily get enough on gofundme to pay for that lawsuit...

I’ll admit that I don’t follow his attention-seeking behavior very closely, but this right wing phase he’s in doesn’t really seem well calculated as a means of album promotion. He won’t be forgiven for this. It will burn down his career.

Isn’t it obvious that he is having some kind of manic episode? This isn’t like Shania Twain making a stupid comment about Trump, or even Lena Dunham style narcissism. Yes, he has always had a bit of a narcissist streak, but he really doesn’t look or sound mentally well. It doesn’t seem fair or ethical to give him a…

Refugees living in the U.S. began coming across the Canadian border in greater numbers based on Trump’s rhetoric alone, even before he stepped up his travel ban and ICE raids. People are risking death and frostbite to cross the border even though Canada hasn’t changed its immigration program in order to help them. In…

Yeah, I know the point is that dystopia can sneak up on you, but June and her husband just seem so damn stupid. The hospital lady was signalling pretty hard that the state would eventually apprehend the kid if June didn’t quit her job to be a stay at home mom and June... stayed at her job until they were forced to…

I’m not an uncritical fan of the show. I am aware of its issues and I don’t think it was ever a sacred cow. It has had weak correspondents and bad segments. Being superior to Weekend Update was a pretty low bar for it to clear. I just think that when this first came up, Seth Myers was the last person with the right to…

Reader’s Digest: What pleases you more, applause or laughter?
Fey: Laughter. You can prompt applause with a sign. My friend, SNL writer Seth Meyers, coined the term clapter, which is when you do a political joke and people go, “Woo-hoo.” It means they sort of approve but didn’t really like it that much. You hear a lot…

Oh no, I get the context of what you meant. I just really saw their comments as sour grapes at the time because if anything, TDS and TCR inspired real laughter while Weekend Update has been mostly mediocre for a long damn time. Weekend Update isn’t a subversive foil to the safe liberal comedy at TDS. TDS just took the…

Gay generally only means homosexual. Queer can mean a few different things. Some of us use it as an umbrella term to mean all non-heterosexuals.

Re: Clapter: Myers and Fey’s points sound like sour grapes over the fact that TDS and TCR far surpassed SNL’s sad attempt at satirical news. Perhaps they were annoyed that TDS and TCR actually had more consistency/bite than SNL’s shallow approach to politics. Colbert Report was funnier on a bad day than Myers on a…

Steering clear of a family that hates him during their time of grief is probably the most compassionate thing he has ever done.

Ahem, Tessa Thompson is her GAL pal.

I would definitely throw a halal burger at him.