That all sounds horrible. I salute your perseverance!

It’s tough to know what cancel culture is supposed to mean when it never seems to mean anything and no one can name an actual person that has been canceled. The people complaining about it just want to live in a consequence-free society.

Mel Gibson is an Anti-Chris Brown and Marilyn Manson still have active recording…

This isn’t cancel culture. It’s consequence culture, also known as accountability. She publicly embarrassed her employers. She got fired. The same logic applies to an eSports company in 2022 as would have applied at a tobacco company in 1952: You can collect checks. You can embarrass your employer. You don’t have a…

If you’ve already decided that a theoretical individual isn’t qualified - before a name is even announced - and you’re willing to make that announcement, publicly, and pin it to affirmative action? I’m pretty comfortable landing on the conclusion that you’re racist...

Stop being astounded. Bad faith actors act in bad faith. Racists say and do racist things. Racist bad faith actors say and do racist things in bad faith.

These people don’t think any non-white person can ever be as qualified or as worthy as a white person. These are not conclusions that they just reached. They’re…

“Simpson declined requests to have an immediate interview.”

“He has been [...] composing Twitter videos commenting on various current events—not that anyone asked him for his opinion.”

You presumably got paid to write this and didn’t have the integrity or intellectual capacity to recognize that your snark was…

Same woman. It’s just a weird thing where people have the ability and capacity to become more than they were as teenagers... And Michelle Kwan had and has the ability and capacity to become more than a figure skater. So she did.

If anything, the comments reflect that he has now recognized that his prior behavior reflected poorly on him and - more importantly - wasn’t actually healthy for himself or beneficial for his wife and children.

The actually meaningful question here is: What did your parents know, and what did they do about it? Say what you want about the ACLU, their clients in unrelated cases, and any actions they may have taken in the past, but the ACLU surely doesn’t have a magical swastika detection system. Neither does the NAACP or the…

Selah!

Two things:

1) You wrote “Taking that into account, it’s a bit more likely that she would trust Val on this topic, except that Val oozes creepy untrustworthiness...”

That doesn’t take into account the idea that we’re watching a television show with all of the knowledge and experience of how television shows,…

It’s not just premature, it literally doesn’t make sense:  Why the hell would they need a retcon of something they requested to set up the thing that is now being claimed as a retcon? That would be like pulling up to a drive-thru, ordering food, pulling up to the first window and paying, and then pulling up to the…

If she doesn’t know what happened, how would she get her revenge? And if Clint didn’t specify what happened on Vormir, how would she know exactly what happened? In both cases, she wouldn’t... She was presented with a narrative that spoke to her desire for revenge and that seemed like a chance to soothe her pain. She…

Here’s a thing: Band practice is important!

On the one hand, we have a group of people widely considered to be geniuses to varying degrees... so we expect them to shit magic, stop for coffee, come back, and shit more magic before lunch!

“Writing together” comes in many, many forms...

Or we can accept that not everything is for everyone, and a documentary about the beginning of the end of The Beatles isn’t and shouldn’t be intended for casual fans and/or those with short attention spans...

This whole critique is mystifying to me... Why would someone who isn’t relatively heavy into The Beatles already even be watching a doc about the beginning of the end of The Beatles? The Anthology series was one for the casuals. Get Back is one for the hardcore fans. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that…

Counterpoint: At least in Ep1, Paul’s “taking the reins” seemed to involve a lot more talking about playing than playing... I recognize that that’s a distortion - in part due to the fact that we never see a full take of anything - but he spends a lot of “practice” time talking about how they need new material. That’s…

Another dynamic in play that kinda only really makes sense if you’ve been in a band: How musicians handle mistakes, issues, writing challenges has a TON to do with how practices go.

Some musicians are “stop a song that isn’t going well, talk about why something didn’t work, figure out where the issue was, and start…

Closing the door you opened, though:  You clicked. On a piece headlined “Pete Davidson has a hickey.” Surely you’re interested.