It’s also unclear why anyone would need to know this via Twitter, but I guess when one is a self-important billionaire, these sort of things feel necessary to stand on the internet’s street corner and yell about through a megaphone.

Ok poke a little fun at Bill Gates the geek, sure, but to pretend the Gates Foundation does nothing is lazy writing.

This. Whatever he’s like personally, his foundation - which, Jesus, Jezebel, do some research before you casually dismiss the Gates Foundation - has done an incredible amount to transform living conditions in the developing world.

It may be because I’m super-old, but one of the first things I remember about the Gates Foundation after it formed was all the mosquito netting it provided to countries in Africa and its dedication to family planning. This isn’t just another Bezos, folks, even if you do not like the man.

Similar experience for me. I do find it a bit strange how he’s able to write a book acknowledging shades of gray and having empathy for others (even if they’re bug aliens) , yet he has such one-dimensional views on gay people.

“enjoy the Mediterranean climate on Gothic-style rooftop terraces overlooking the lush Turkish forest”

I have never seen this show, but what is with that terrible, terrible dress? 

Some of the books Savage Nobody read when he was younger weren’t entirely appropriate either. Good thing he grew up to be an incredibly well-adjusted individual as evidenced by all his prior columns!

Longmire was a cool procedural set in the west.  If you prefer schlockier fare, check out Banshee on HBO Max. 

COUNTERPOINT: The Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials, A Wizard of Earthsea, Redwall...

I dunno man, read the review? It describes pretty clearly the enjoyable stuff and points out the ways in which this show subverts those tropes.

Probably no better than any of those other stories with love triangles and chosen ones, like Dune, Star Wars, War and Peace, Le Morte d’Arthur, the Iliad, or the Bible, I’d imagine. All that dumb kids shit.

Dang, that’s awesome that this is good. I was worried about the awkwardness of mushing the Ketterdam crew into the story of the first trilogy, but Kaz and Inej and Nina should clearly be the stars (Alina always annoyed the heck out of me, for some of the reasons Danette enumerates in the review.) So ultimately I'm…

You can’t run away from the sewage, it just keeps coming.

Ah. Yeah I hope so. I really like him.

At the same time...no lies detected!

An adult should get a covid shot or they’re a moron. Especially an actor unmasked on sets with others who she could end up hurting. You don’t sit in a makeup chair with a mask on, she could infect the whole crew because of idiocy.

Awesome! Now let’s petition to have him barrel roll onto the set at the beginning of each show.

I agree that age is a factor working against him, though I think there’s an argument that having your game show revolve around a single host for decades with no apparent succession plan isn’t the best approach. If Burton has, say, 10 good hosting years in him and does well in his guest spot, I hope they go for it.

He continued to say that his hosting “makes sense.”