Dr. David Gorski produces a really informative blog at https://respectfulinsolence.com/ . It is very satisfying to read the way he goes after people like Dr. Oz or Bobby Kennedy Jr.  Reading Gorski there and Dr. Lizardo here is comforting in a world where stupidity and lies abound. 

What is useful tho is getting vaccinated.

I not only met and worked with Ed Asner, but he fought for my rights! I was an extra in a movie he was in and when he saw the brown-bag lunch they were giving the background (specifically when he saw MY brown-bag lunch), he demanded we get the same hot lunch as everyone else. Just a casual thing, only took him a…

Properly gutted. Interviewed him when Lou Grant arrived on DVD and the half hour morphed into 90 minutes once we got into the history of the American left. Smart, funny, decent, talented, warm and forgiving of his fellow man. All that light now gone out.

Let’s get more specific. Lou Grant was cancelled because Asner publicly called out the Reagan Administration for using the CIA to give money and military aid to Jose Napoleon Duarte and his nationionalist party and associated paramilitary death squads while they exterminated communist party members in El Salvador. An…

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the A.V. Club commenters, whose niche knowledge is mostly useless. These are their stories.

Waiting to see if his defense is, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, while she may have been twelve at the time, we seek to prove that she ached just like a woman, yes she did, she took just like a woman, yes she did, and she made love just like a woman, but she-actually, I’d like to withdraw my statement.”

So if I’m reading this correctly, the problem is that Marvel temporarily replaced the promotional Twitter account avatar of a character whose show dropped several months ago with a different character whose show dropped last night?

The CDC presentation says that “[g]iven higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the Delta variant.” The CDC chose a less drastic message in their announcement the other day, recommending masks depending on your personal situation and the…

The Truman Show for the Fortnite age?! I was hoping it would be more like an Ed TV for the TikTok era!

Because COVID-19 is, in the U.S., 63 TIMES more deadly than chickenpox?

But, context helps here...

if you wanted to be a little unfair and clickbait-y

If there’s one thing you learn watching all the Hulk Hogan vehicles it’s that huge hulking muscle men are really hard to convincingly shoot in any sort of love scene.

So you want wholly original stories that pay no homage to any stories that came before them? You...may be shit out of luck, buddy.

“No problem with someone liking a film that I don’t.”

A line that is repeated incessantly and means absolutely nothing.

After living in a sane world again it’s hard to even remember what an astonishingly stupid dipshit Donald Trump really is. Like we all just put up with four years of this utter dumbfuck running the show? 

I mean, a bad season 5 of Game of Thrones won best drama over Mad Men’s final season and BCS’s first season, so I wouldn’t consider the Emmy’s a place where the best show is necessarily rewarded. Carrie Coon didn’t even get a nomination for any of her seasons of The Leftovers while you saw Kevin Spacey and Robin…

You could not have put that any more perfectly.