Lena Dunham has talent as a writer, but some sort of negative talent when it comes to clothing. There are people who look bad in their clothing because they clearly don’t care enough to put more thought into what they wear than just grabbing some stuff that vaguely fits and then going with it. But Dunham very clearly…

Didn’t Peter Dinklage make some sort of comments about it being offensive that the live-action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was going to have real-world dwarf actors?  Leading Disney to replace them with seven actors of assorted sizes and then with weird cartoon CGI?

Loads of people didn’t turn out to vote against Hillary. Despite the fact that she was one of the more unpopular presidential candidates in recent years, and that she didn’t run a good campaign, she still got a couple million more votes than Trump. Years of anti-Hillary (and general anti-Clinton) sentiment, and she…

The DNC resoundingly dropped the ball over the last four years. With Trump running again it was their election to lose and they went ‘Challenge Accepted’. There should be a fairly obvious group of Democratic politicians who seemed poised to run for 2024 in the event that Biden proved unable or unwilling, and there…

No one voted for Biden in 2020, he was just the guy that enough of the people who wanted to vote against Trump could look at and go ‘Yeah, I guess.’  The election is kind of similar this year, in that it’s going to be Trump vs Not Trump, and all Not Trump has to be is more coherent than Trump.  Will some people not…

The Dem establishment also really hurt itself by doing nothing to build out its bench of potential presidential candidates over the last three years.

I wouldn’t be so quick to jump on the ‘he’s making it all about him’ bandwagon.  We don’t know how much of this decision is him clinging to power, versus how much of it is because it seems like there never was any other candidate.  I can’t know his mind, but I can know that the DNC doesn’t seem to have done anything…

She should’ve stopped believin’ a whole lot earlier..

If this were made up bullshit, I think that Gaiman would have said ‘This is made up bullshit’ not ‘I’ve offered my assistance to the police’. The real story is undoubtedly somewhat different from what’s been presented, just because that’s how stories and memories and individual perspectives work, but this seems like…

Losing your loved one to a painful, debilitating illness is traumatic. Doing so when you’re certain that you could have saved them would likely be considerably moreso. But how is the smartest person in the world unable to understand that she was treated like a kid because she was a kid? Sure, when she was eleven she…

My Series of Violent Flops: How I Tried and Failed at Skiing

I’m less interested in doing a point-by-point takedown and more in looking at the overall field and how there really has been zero groundwork done by the Democratic machine to produce any real presidential hopefuls. Your assertion - and I’ve seen it from other people - is that it’s mostly-to-all Biden’s doing. That…

That’s my point. It’s so odd that it really requires a bunch of further explanation, particularly in the context of accusing someone of sexual assault.

Well, I feel silly now. But I agree about it being a good time to be reading the AVC - not because it’s better than it was several years ago - it’s not - but the reappearance of some of the well-regarded features and writers at least has this site’s quality moving in the right direction.

He suggested that Gaiman would blame autism* for his actions, in the same way that Mel Gibson blamed alcoholism for his racist tirades/domestic abuse.  He didn’t imply that autistic people are all rapists.

When I first heard the phrase ‘digital rectal exam’ my first thought was ‘like they use a computer for that?’

While I’ve never been in a position to hire a nanny, I’d probably walk out of a job if I showed up on day one and the boss suggested that I take a bath with him.

Holy shit, My Year of Flops and now Run the Series?  What’s next, an entry in History of Violence?

I think Short Round benefited from Willie being insufferable. Replace her with Marion and SR is going to be a more conventionally irritation kid sidekick.

I don’t think that the Everything Everywhere All At Once-sparked Ke Huy Quanissance had happened before Dial of Destiny had really gotten into pre-production.