"Doctor, what did you find out?"

Worthington Law invoked: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

All of my comments are meant to be read in a Donald Duck voice while "Bawitdaba" plays in the background.

That's where my issue lies. That statement about the film's use of cinematic language, which I agree with, is a totally separate issue from the logical jump that the film therefore functions as a repudiation of poor craft and bad movies.

Technically, wouldn't that make pretty much all well-crafted movies a repudiation of poorly crafted movies? It's a pretty broad read of the nature of craft and an overreach regarding the creator's intent when it comes to craft.

Max saved Latin. What did James Franco ever do?

So does that make the President a friggin' snowflake?

Yeah. This is the higher-level hair-splitting sure to make a person who is one the fence about identity politics want to give up even considering these kinds of matters. (And I say this as someone who think that identity politics and class wind up being separate yet simultaneously inextricable issues.)

Kind of reminds me: was talking to a friend getting his PhD about how lots of people in the rhetoric and culture studies portion of academic world are considering "diversity" a racist term. The argument is that the word denotes a multicultural world as other than normal, whereas it should be the norm and a word like…

I'm not disagreeing with you that hate and fear are part of this, but the Republicans were able to at least create a perception that they would bring back more prosperous economic times. They successfully blamed the Clintons and Democrats for NAFTA (nevermind HW Bush's role in it) and suggested shennanigans about…

It's about a lot of things, among them hate, fear, race, and class.

And Kansas has lived through Brownback yet seems still firmly Republican overall. Modest gains by Democrats in state seats, but definitely a Republican state and seemingly unshakable voting bloc.

A liberal coalition is a lot like herding cats, so the old adage goes, and that's been especially true throughout 2016. There's this series of divides in the Democratic Party (e.g., boomer/millennial, class/identity politics, left/moderate) and I don't know where it all might be headed. For all the flack people have…

Great points. Makes me wonder what the pushback becomes. This seems like a breaking point for the Democrats who haven't been all that great about messaging that appeals to rural America, but what will the new message be and how will it get out there if they are a minority national/state/local party? Also, what is the…

Kennedy and Nixon seemed to have clashed over the expansiveness of Nixon's proposed health care reform, with Kennedy wanting Nixon's proposed reforms to go further and get closer to universal coverage.

They ran as third-wayers (such was the nature of triangulation) but the Republicans of the time still painted them as ultra-liberal, from mainstream Republicans a la the HW wing to the fringier Buchanans and Limbaughs of the world (particularly with regard to social issues, and even then, we can view those supposedly…

The right-of-center position is also what got the Dems back in office after 12 years of drubbing via Reagan and HW Bush. Given how conservative America's always been in general, it's not that surprising they'd have to try to play to the middle to a certain degree.

Seems like he was heading toward a total breakdown given his recent behavior. Hoping he gets the help he needs.

Saw it in HFR 3D… Some of the flattest, least dynamic cinematography I've seen outside of an undergrad film class.

Like anything that has given people some solace or hope in the last few days, I'm sure some shit-heel on the internet will write a hot-take on how Miyazaki un-retiring is a bad thing