While not technically saying Gaza, the message was succinct and direct and clear. A perfect memorial.

Wait, does nobody else see this as a work? This is like a wrestling shoot now, ginning up “controversy” with a high profile back and forth where nobody actually says anything. He’s talking to his fans, she’s talking to her fans, they both get a bunch of free promotion and social media burn. He sells more albums, she…

Spears appeared to apologize to ex Justin Timberlake for the varying revelations about him she included in her memoir, which didn’t exactly portray the former boy band frontman in a positive light—but who cares??? He could have just not done all those things!

As a music review, this was Spanfeller-esque. A bad faith critique of what should be an easy target - an aging pop star’s big comeback album.

If he isn’t happy, he can move on.

What she described is just spoiling your (adult) kids with expensive stuff. If your kids love you less because the other parent buys them fancy trinkets, then I suspect there’s more to the story.

“...[T]here was some parental alienation going on there, where Travis — even when we weren’t together — always wanted to be the ‘super dad,’”

Oh, we’re on the same side there. But Maxwell has the ability to change that singlehandedly, if it bothers her so much.

I’ve never disliked Kevin Hart, I just think of him like Dane Cook and Sebastian Maniscalco - guys that make a LOT of people laugh by acting funny. Decent jokes with exaggerated delivery.

Netanyahu seems to think an 85-year-old man accused of child sexual abuse, with deep ties to a convicted sex trafficker, is the right man to take this on.

Again, she is not the only one who’s been imprisoned for these crimes. Jeffery Epstein was in jail, he just used his monkey’s paw Get Out of Jail Free card.

He always gave off powerful “charming bastard” vibes. The qualities that made you want him on your side were things you knew you never wanted turned against you.

IANAL, but I feel Mr. Lañez not firing the gun should have come up at trial.

It feels like you two may be talking past each other.

Hey, can anyone point me to the Hasan Minhaj update blog? I keep coming to find it, can’t see it anywhere.

And given that his struggles with Grande’s fame were reportedly a key source of tension in their marriage, he probably isn’t overly eager to draw even more attention to himself with a spicy little tell-all.

This is a C- obituary (soaked in recency bias) but an A of an essay.

Yes, I know this is a fun article, not a dissertation on our cultural understanding of intelligence. I enjoyed reading it.

Transgenderism is a thing that most people have not seriously thought about. At all. But it’s a very interesting idea! So people want to talk about it. The problem is that people don’t know what they don’t know, so they make assumptions that don’t stand up to scrutiny. Easy assumptions that make just enough sense so…

Maher called himself a Libertarian because he wanted weed decriminalized. But any honest look at his politics reveals he wants access to the things he likes, and he wants to restrict the things he does not like, and there is no clear ideological theme to any of it. If there is, it’s definitely not liberty.