IF Q1 THEN defraud Tom.  IF Q2 THEN use Bill’s money to pay Tom back.

It was the perfect movie to watch alone this weekend with a face mask on - but if I’d paid for it, I’d have been big mad.

As someone with ADHD, I always feel like I should begrudgingly give respect to people who successfully run Ponzi schemes. I can barely remember the order in which I need to cook dinner, much less have dozens or hundreds of people on the go at various points of a con.

There does seem to be a trend these days of demanding that every mystery is solved, every possible angle is discussed, etc, in tv and film and I don’t get it.  Part of watching something is engaging with it - I can use my brain to fill in the gaps or answer the outstanding questions; it doesn’t need to be handed to me…

But Edward still seems a viable option in the London of The Girl Before—despite the pristine offices and exquisite outfits, the landscape feels cursed and brimming with awful men, uncaring institutions, and unchecked injustice.

Dude, it’s not like he’s a new entity that just showed up on the podcast scene.  He’s been an asshole for twenty years (at least).  Why would I feel the need to listen to a dude’s opinion when I got quite enough of it on tv back in the Aughts?

Yeah, Teen Kate and Rebecca’s relationship has always felt very true to life for me.  Teenage girls can be little shits to their mothers and that 16-19 age seems to be the worst for it.  And it makes total sense that Kate would be mad at Rebecca for dating - Kevin’s got acting and Sophie; Randall has college and Beth;…

It seems her plan was to get her GED and then . . . hang around Boston until it was time to apply for colleges?  A very, very bad idea from someone in Deja’s position.

Well, in fairness, were I given the choice, I think I’d rather show up to listen to Jenny McCarthy’s drivel twice a week and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so instead of heading back into practice and forking over half my salary in malpractice insurance.

For sure there are various physical markers that people think of as “stereotypically Jewish” but that’s by no means a perfect indicator, since Jewish people are, by and large, comprised of multiple nationalities and points of origin. There was enough population drift 5000 years ago to mix in various other physical…

Yes, obviously, if the Klan in her example knew that her friend was Jewish, the friend would be in equal trouble. But I think her point is that you can’t “know” someone is Jewish just by looking at them, whereas that isn’t the case with the majority of Black people.

This movie was ruined for me because of Topher Grace’s Pete. Even at the height of the Nerd Hero Nice Guy takeover (and I was and am an avowed Seth Cohen fan), I found him to be awful. He’s mean, he’s obsessed with Rosalee, he’s rude to Katheryn Hahn and he seems to assume that one day, if he negs her enough, Rosalee…

Dead Edward is a lovely (but yes, very sad) book about grief and PTSD and how we’re never actually cured of the despair of losing our loved ones. I’m not sure how it will come across on the screen, but as long as they keep it a self-contained story, it could be really good.

I understand Whoopi’s point of race being a “visual” marker - her KKK example is, I think, a clumsy way of explaining that, yeah, most Black people can’t pass as another race. She’d need to run, whereas her Jewish friend could say, “hey, didn’t I see you fellas at the First Baptist picnic last week?”

Race is an invention if you’re speaking purely scientifically. There is no such thing as a biological “race” - all human beings have the same DNA structure and are 99.9999% genetically similar. In other words, there is no biological, cellular difference between a person from Ethiopia and a person from Sweden. People…

I watched it yesterday and found it very moving. I have a teenage daughter, so by nature I was viewing the film more through the lens of Julie Bowen (which, considering she’s rumored to have had an affair with Tucker Carlson, really makes me want to disassociate from her in all aspects) but I think it captured that…

I think you’d have to be able to prove that a listener wouldn’t have died but for being an idiot who takes Joe Rogan’s advice, and that’s hard to do with Covid, even if the number of fully vaxxed people dying or being permanently disabled from the disease is miniscule compared to, well, Joe Rogan fans.

I saw YOUR name and was reminded to go take my medicine, so thanks.

#TeamCooper

Even before that - I remember the absolute toddler fit he threw over the fact that a lot of people were blanching at the “mewling quim” line in The Avengers. I’m pretty sure I remember him saying something about how FANS were the misogynist ones for thinking that line was misogynist.