Be sure to rock that 55-mile-an-hour national speed limit and $3.35/hr. minimum wage while you're at it.

That entire series came to an ignominious end—I've been wanting to rewatch those weird, wild fifth and sixth season eposodes for nearly three decades now, but it's as though they all got sucked into a vacuum somewhere.

Dr. Axelrod is reunited with Mrs. Hufnagle. RIP

"[T]he movie will suddenly snap into black-and-white and then back to color again a few minutes later, for no real reason other than the fact that Tarantino thought it looked cool…"

I'm still waiting for a mega-deluxe, extended-cut DVD boxed set.

No Brandi Maxxx? No Shawna Malwae-Tweep?

If I'm skeptical about "Wonder Woman"—reviews of which I admittedly really haven't paid much attention—it's because I can't tell a "good" comic book flick from a "bad" comic book flick. I still feel kind of burned by the positive word-of-mouth for the 2002 version of "Spiderman", and really don't find Bruce Wayne to…

In recent years, Pryor's 1970's stand-up material has arguably become more relevant than it was when he created it—it's like he went from a genius to a prophet.

For years, I've been hearing that there is no way I can grasp the full impact that the N-word can have. I have no reason to doubt this. Again, I don't like the word, but not as much as I dislike the way it is sometimes used, or the people who sometimes use it. More to the point—my opinion is my own, and not expressed…

In partisan terms, Cuban-American voters have veered towards the Republican party ever since the whole Bay of Pigs thing. One of the more bizarre aspects of the whole Elian Gonzalez incident is how Democrats and Republicans seemed to flip-flip their usual philosophical positions—Democrats (including Clinton) wanted to…

Richard Pryor actually stopped using the N-word in his standup act after visiting Africa.

I think you've hit upon something: Whatever else you want to say about Maher, he cares what non-white people think. In the age of Trump, white Republicans have learned to embrace their essential apathy. One of their recurring talking points is along the lines of "Trump represents us, not them". (That, and "Obama's the…

I think there's a very logical parallel between Tripp and James Comey. Again, the lingering snarky inference is that since Tripp—regardless of her personal politics—was unwilling to testify in a way that would help Clinton, she's less honorable than somebody who demonstrated loyalty to Clinton by lying for him? Or is…

You're right. Tripp was a big fat cow who had absolutely no reason to believe that either side would subpoena her to testify about Willey or Lewinsky, and who really wanted the tapes to write the tell-all book that should finally get published any day now.

Kathleen Willey's name had been floating around the Jones case for months. Tripp had spoken publically about encountering Willey after Willey's encounter with Clinton. Clinton's attorney publically denied Tripp's description of the encounter. Clinton's people didn't know Tripp and Lewinsky had a relationship. Both…

Way back before Clinton's impeachment was about whether a blowjob counted as sex, it was about a so-called handwritten "talking points memo", which suggested ways that Tripp could get around actually telling the truth. and which was evidence of a felony—and grounds for impeachment if Clinton wrote it. After the…

OK, my previous post used a bad word, so I'll repost a bleeped version:

It could never have been as entertaining as the full year's worth of daily, breathless production updates it spawned courtesy of the AV Club Newswire.

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It also has one of thsoe nonsensical endings that completely undoes whatever audience goodwill or suspended disbelief that the first 90 minutes or so might have garnered. In fact, the ending is so nonsensical that I can't even spoil it if I tried: Capone's attorney changes his client's plea after a judge dismisses the…