China: the place every movie studio ties itself in knots to avoid portraying as the villain, which is why North Korea keeps appearing as the implausibly formidable action-film antagonist.

Bond was originally created to be the perfect cold warrior. The new cold war that is shaping up is against China. The place every movie studio is trying to figure out how to unlock without alienating their western audience in a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too move.

Well I’m pissed off about Mayim Bialik.  Why was Buzzy Cohen not considered?

The problem is at least in part that people assume nurses are smart and have a strong drive to care.

We were so hard up for 9/11 to be Pearl Harbor pt 2 and for the War on Terror to be our WWII/Greatest Generation defining moment so it could undo the last few decades and give us Something We Could All Believe In.

There will be a lot of people over the next couple of days expressing dismay that the unity we felt in the aftermath of 9/11 has gone away. Beyond that everyone was not a beneficiary of that unity, “unity” and “groupthink” are flipsides of the same coin.  And I would say the unity we experienced after 9/11 was a bad…

I still don’t get the need for directors to keep giving this incredibly lukewarm take. Yeah it sucks that the movie you made, a labor of love, didn’t get a full theatrical run. But also...cope. It’s not personal. It’s the result of a global pandemic that has killed ~4.5 million people (so far).

Anyone remember Deep Blue? We should just get them to host Jeopardy

*incriminating evidence of a tryst with Microsoft’s Tay and nazi radicalization ensues*

In season 2, Sandra Oh has to face a cabal of Turning Point USA organizers, who orchestrate violent showdowns with leftist student groups.

Hugs are actually one of her top ten favourite pastimes.

american cocker spaniels seem to be maybe almost as messed up as king charles cavalier spaniels?

I absolutely was this person too; I funded two surgeries at 8k each for my rescue dog (I’m child-free so I don’t feel bad dropping that type of cash because this is my companion and pet insurance covered about 1/3 of it), treated her Cushing’s Disease, her allergies, and whatever else she needed.

My only guess is they didn’t want to pay.

Mayim Bialik’s problems aside. I’m tired of how we keep offering women “second best” roles. Give the damn job to Mayim Bialik if you think she is qualified to host. Period. Stop with these “deputy/vice” roles which only relegate women to the back up plan. Bialik won’t have to wait too long though. It’s only a matter…

Ever notice that the cable “education” channels that were touted as a market-driven replacement for PBS like History, Discovery, TLC. etc. have all turned in to homes for crappy reality shows, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience? I guess that pays better than boring old facts and science. 

White Guy Starts Hosting Search, Concludes He’s The Best For The Job, Blindsided By His Own History Of Lawsuits

Can we not pretend there's such a thing as "trickle-down social justice" lol? Even if she wins its not going to help small content creators afford to sue DISNEY. 

So, how’d it go? Not so great at first.

Also women of a certain vintage who watched Y&R. Girls I grew up with turned into women who named their daughters variations of “Christine” and tried to call them “Cricket”.

Not to say that Bialik doesn’t have some, let’s say, questionable public comments in her background, but calling her “anti-vax” is incorrect. She’s said she thinks children should get vaccinated and I think she confirmed her own kids are vaccinated as well.