Sorry that happened to your family.  Always interested in the concept of integrating things that can’t be gotten over.  With something like that I have no idea.  Guess we all learn at one point or another.  Be well, if possible. 

mermaids are not real

I think if I lost one of my kids let alone both I would lose my mind and cease functioning entirely, so good for him whatever he does.

I can understand homicide. Really. Traumatic life, drama comes up, societal encouragement of violence, etc. I don’t condone the choice of course, but any number of factors make that kind of decision at least nominally understandable.  Putting the energy into review bombing a movie because a woman was cast in it? …

I’m aware of it but I have no desire to spend hours and hours of my life on a podcast about hating something I liked for a very specific reason at a very specific time that is decidedly not now. I can’t imagine why anyone else would either and I do judge it a little bit. Thanks for the rec tho. 

Fantastic. 3 is underrated. “Don’t call me Tiny.”

America has always been fucked.  My two cents.  Don’t spend it all in one place. 

Classic case of someone being really good at a job that shouldn’t exist.  RIP Your Majesty.  You seemed pretty cool, considering.  

See, this is what I mean. I think you’re wildly overestimating the show’s actual influence. Yes, it inspired people. Perry Mason inspired a lot of people to become lawyers, but I don’t think an uncritical expectation that every client is innocent and that the real killer will inevitably make a tearful confession on…

Their old white man.  

Hey.  Giving dogs treats for shitting on carpets is what our society is BUILT on!  

I can see that, but would make the point that the phenomenon of white men arrogantly mansplaining things on which they are not particularly insightful predates and extends FAR beyond the influence of Aaron Sorkin. I’m not saying he helped.

This a thoughtful response and I deeply regret my only reply is, “Gilbert and Sullivan.” But here we are.

I feel like some West Wing haters put similar amounts of energy into their hate as Trekkies do their love.  Fine, aspects of the show haven’t aged well, it’s just an odd focus.  

I get it. I mean, it’s not like politics is like criminal defense, where lawyers win their cases by extracting tearful confessions from the real killers on the stand every single time. Now THAT’s a fun job.

If someone can offer a compelling argument for the wide reaching destructive impacts of the West Wing, particularly compared with six trillion other forms of problematic media out there, well...actually don’t, I’m busy. It’s just a fantasy, an aspirational pep talk based on a decades-old political landscape that made…

Some whiplash moving from movie gossip to capital punishment, but OK. I would say if someone is against the death penalty, they should be against the death penalty. It’s a role-of-government/ethics/deterrent efficacy argument, not a sliding scale of what we believe people deserve. Public safety would be addressed by a…

NYC thin crust or Chicago deep dish?

I always get sad when I see people starring these kinds of comments.