In contrast, "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932) highlighted the cruelty of chain gangs and led to at least some reforms.

Let's be clear here, if these people weren't working in the governor's mansion, they would have been doing what exactly? These were convicted criminals, and many of them one-time murderers no less.

There was an opportunity to do something neat with the "God Save the Queen" at the beginning / end: it could have been more about "God save the [Ice Warrior] Queen [from meatheaded British imperialists]".. If they were going for that, it was not conveyed strongly enough for me to feel that was their intention.

That's fair. Just wanted to make sure you didn't assume 1) it was going to be a recurring joke or 2) it was intended to normalize the use of slurs (quite the contrary).

I think the Left has so much trouble talking about Islam because their first duty is to put a kibosh on the "kill them all" crowd. Even guys like Bill Maher, who know how to choose their words carefully enough to mask their Islamophobia*, require the Left to challenge Maher's implicit notion that there is no such…

Hillary trounced Bernie without even trying. She didn't have to employ any opposition research whatsoever and still she had defeated him by Super Tuesday.

They do that because the character in question is an absolute piece of sht. Will it make you happy to learn he is murdered by the end of the episode, and absolutely nobody is sad that he's dead?

Triffic! I know people for whom this sort of thing got a LOT worse — nearly losing a leg, needing a crutch for years, and so on. Instead they turned you into a cyborg, please don't destroy mankind, we can help you fulfill your robot agenda.

When I sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", I always like to throw a "haroon, haroon, haroon" in there. My relatives don't quite get me.

You've got a couple years on me, but Pertwee was my first Doctor, albeit in reruns. So when I heard that voice I said, "please merciful God no …" and then there it was, Alpha Centauri staring me in the face. It's one of those moments of nostalgia where I guess I'm glad they did it, but I can't say I enjoyed it.

A pretty good article on the man who was more or less the Father Of White Resentment Politics:

it's more, I think, that a lot of cultural giants have hung on exceptionally well. Half the Beatles are still with us*, most of the Rolling Stones persist, most of the rock stars of the 70s who survived the decade are still around … but when they go they're all gonna go fast.

Symone Sanders did a damn fine job as well. Much respect to her, for her never-ending efforts to educate white people who cannot possibly be having this much trouble getting it. (I'm not a paragon of anything myself, but Jesus Christ, this is Not Being Completely Terrible 101.)

Look, it's so simple that even a straight white guy can get it. If someone requests that you don't call them a given nickname / use a word that has a negative history, you have a simple choice: respect their wishes because they're human beings, or ignore their wishes because you're a colossal a-hole. This shouldn't…

I think Damon's stance on LeBron James vs. Michael Jordan was conclusively proven with That Dunk, you know the one. Here was James on why he went with that:

I would've been heartbroken if you didn't know what I was getting at.

Yes, but they can only get to about 14 between the two of them.

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There are Frankensteins in the US too:

I'm not even sure I've gotten to the point of making recommendations, I'm still trying to make sure we're clear on where the problems are.