“Horrible People Agglomerate Into a Single Viscous Mass of Hate”

“Okay, kids, it’s time for your mandatory study of religion! Today, we’re going to learn about all the wars Christianity caused. Now, this may destroy your faith, but they said we could be objective, so let’s do this shit, okay?”

In this case, I think some of it might have been not wanting to draw attention to the fact that this co-worker was dating the boss’s son--the company had some pretty strict rules about nepotism and direct reporting, and if they ever had a relationship “on paper”, one of them would have had to quit or transfer. But…

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?

Oof. That’s almost as bad as the big sign that they put up at my old job congratulating my boss for becoming a grandmother. In small print below it, they put, “And congratulations to [co-worker], the mother of the child.”

It could be worse. The full version was, “What, you’re no longer down with this dominant, prominent, malcontent, nonevent, rubber cement, breach of trust with fraudulent intent pussy?” 

Pretty sure this is Marvel’s solution to exactly that. It’s also very bad news for Ike Perlmutter, who’s clearly having his sphere of operations nibbled up by Feige bit by bit.

I think it’s unquestionably a nasty mix of “I am a white person and as such entitled to say whatever I want to and about black people” and “I’m (not-so) secretly racist and I say it in my head all the time and am really mad that I can’t rules lawyer a way to say it out loud”. Because yeah, you just know that if it was…

Six seasons and a movie, baby!

“This book makes me look like a racist! I’ll show her I’m not by burning it!”

I’ll admit, if I could jump back in time like Sam Beckett in ‘Quantum Leap’, I’d jump back into Marco Rubio during that first debate right after Trump called him “Little Marco” and just haul off and deck the guy. Send his toupee flying, knock his dentures out of his mouth, and shout, “I dare you to say that again, you…

Because Democrats don’t fight for it. The conservative movement in America has done enough work to frame the issue as “saving babies vs killing babies” that even progressive politicians who fight for it won’t do so vocally or make a moral case for it. So it becomes a “necessary evil” to the moderates, which makes it…

I guess that third thing he forgot was “don’t commit crimes on behalf of an ethically bankrupt president who demands loyalty but never rewards it.”

Well, Doctor Who is a slightly different animal--it does make more money than its budget, thanks to BBC Worldwide merchandising the ever-living fuck out of it. But theoretically, the BBC is distinct and separate from BBC Worldwide and not allowed to take those kinds of details into consideration.

It certainly couldn’t have helped, but they did budget Series One on the assumption that they’d be able to sell/finance the show in America, and that didn’t happen by the time they needed to start planning Series Two. (There was a running gag on TV Without Pity that if you ever needed to know how BitTorrent worked,…

The logic is very simple:

I still think money had to be involved. Billie Piper took a hefty pay cut for Series Two, and Tennant was hired for significantly less money than Eccleston had been making. And they had to cut the budget—it’s well known that Series One was planned with a US co-production deal in mind that eventually fell through,…

I think there’s a pretty strong implication that the Avengers themselves prevented that kind of catastrophe, stepping in as needed to provide stability in a period of crisis. At the absolute minimum, Captain America stepping in to say, “This wasn’t an act of God, it was an alien who did it and he’s dead now”, would…

...I know what you mean and it’s very tragic, but I can’t help picturing someone explaining to your grandfather that they want to replace his ass with his knee and it’s a very striking mental image.

“When I’m finished, half of your action figure collection will still be there. I hope they remember you.”