Actually, lots of people drink on the job pretty regularly.

I am sorry, sir, but I will simply not allow this kind of slander to stand unchallenged!

I think that for some reason they’re calling the back half of the season Season Two? All I know is I’m totally psyched. I thought it would be a fun series based on the concept, but those first four episodes were absolutely gripping as hell and I have become a serious Toys That Made Us evangelist. The story of Battle…

“Don’t you get it? YOU ARE NOT LIKING THE SAME THINGS I’M LIKING! What is wrong with you?”

To me, it was Kai Cole’s open letter. It really made me re-evaluate his work, and I came to realize that a lot of the stuff I’d been excusing about him for years was honestly really fucking terrible and not a string of exceptions to his general feminism. After that, I’ve had a lot less interest in continuing to follow…

First, Stan Lee did not fuck over Jack Kirby. Martin Goodman fucked over Jack Kirby. Lee was never in a position to determine compensation or ownership of Marvel’s characters, as he was not the publisher during that era (Goodman was). Lee did his best for Kirby, constantly promoting him (the main reason you know about…

It’s not just the affairs, though—it’s the fact that he specifically told his wife, “I’m not having affairs, I’m just so feminist that I don’t even feel comfortable hanging out with guys, you need to get over The Patriarchy’s conditioning that makes you see other women as a threat, I’m so impossibly woke that you…

MSt3K Season Twelve, one hopes?

They had some nice long talks about it during their vacation in the land of the delta blues, in the middle of the pouring...rain...

Well, given that Bank of America and Wells Fargo are literally bulldozing hundreds of bank-owned homes and donating the property back to the cities they’re in rather than maintain them and pay property taxes on them, yes, you could say that a certain degree of that scarcity is artificial. Even in cities where zoning…

Can you? To me, this whole thread feels vaguely surreal.

I agree, they’re kind of reinventing the wheel.

We’ve known that ever since the press conference where he explained that he’d never do something like that, because the Russians are so good at getting it on tape, and proceeded to explain in astonishing levels of detail exactly how they get blackmail material on visiting businessmen and what they do with it. It’s the…

I still see that you’re unable to engage substantively with the criticisms raised, and are falling back on “You’re white so you don’t get to talk about this!” as a defense. Good to know that neither one of us has changed since our talk yesterday! It’s great catching up with you.

I don’t blame him for being scared, but I do blame him for taking actions in response to his fear that have made him and others around him measurably less safe. His emotion is valid and should be respected, but his response is not.

Someday, a Millennial is going to write this exact same article about 9/11.

Given that they devoted an entire subplot of a recent episode to selling the message, “Hey, taking all the lazy stereotypes out of a story makes it worse!”, I’m not sure that’s a safe bet. :)

Amen. So damn many people come at...well, a lot of things, but polyamory is a big one...thinking, “I know that I’m not okay with this, but if I just pretend I am for long enough, sooner or later they’re going to get so attached to me that when I tell them this thing I’ve been saying for ages wasn’t a dealbreaker…

So I’m still seeing that you’re treating this like it’s a poll—”This many people from the marginalized group aren’t speaking up, and this many are, so clearly whoever has the most minorities on their side is right.” (Which, among other things, ignores the very large number of compelling reasons why a lot of non-white…

You can’t go back and change the past. But you can always change the future. There’s certainly some truth to the idea that at this point, the Simpsons has lost a lot of its cultural cachet and is seen as a spent creative force with no real contributions to make to pop culture the way it did twenty years ago.