The left has always led the movement against animal testing and factory farming. The right only started caring about the NIH’s animal experiments after Fauci criticized Trump’s Covid response.

Vermont is the whitest state in the country because it was the first to abolish slavery, back in 1777. It’s weird that that’s always thrown out as a dig, especially in the context of people who moved there specifically for its progressive culture.

There’s an Irish activist named Bernadette Devlin who had a lot to say about that. A speech she gave in Boston about the hypocrisy of Irish-American racism has been quoted a lot on twitter the last couple days.

As an adult I feel I can objectively say that Empire Strikes Back is excellent and Return of the Jedi sucks.

Anyone else remember when Disney used to serialize their upcoming movies in the Sunday comics as a promotional teaser? I remember I couldn’t wait each week’s new Tron installment, and then when the movie finally came out it failed to grab me the way eight comic frames a week managed to.

There’s been a podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers for a few years now, maybe since the show began.

It’s possible for two people to suck at once.

Jar-Jar Baggins

In the mid-90s I took a poetry class where the teacher asked each of us what we were reading at the moment, and when I said I was reading LOTR she said, “Wow, nobody’s ever answered with that before!” It’s weird to think that those books were a kind of middlebrow-fringe before the movies.

I got there via Gods and Monsters.

Thought immediately of this.

I can’t seem to find a clip of Steve Martin introducing him as “Stingy” on SNL, but I still always read Sting’s name in that voice/pronunciation.

The most unrealistic part of Spider-Man was Peter Parker struggling to pay rent on his NYC apartment while his aunt lost the mortgage on her two-story house elsewhere in the city. I know native NYers who lived with their parents well into their 30s because this is one of the most expensive cities in the country and…

I thought he was just a garden-variety pretty boy until he totally held his own up there with Ian McKellen. It’s what immediately came to mind when he said he was intimidated about working with Scorsese and DeNiro.

Oh man her affected delivery is what keeps me from enjoying content I would otherwise 100% be mainlining. I’ve tried listening a few times and I just can’t get past it. The subject matter itself is catnip for me so it’s a huge bummer.

I know this is meant to be jokey, but fuck that trainer and fuck anyone who forces primates to work on movie/TV sets in this day and age.

I can’t wait to watch the movie of this.

Kinja’d! When I posted this comment it had a bunch of links in it, and a chunk of the sentence wasn’t crammed into the beginning. I can’t believe this platform’s still as buggy as ever.

Do you guys not have google? Right-wingers bring this up constantly, yet there are countless articles explaining the history of when and why the parties eventually switched sides on a lot of fundamental issues.

Omg. Andy Richter is the only proposed host so far who I think would absolutely nail it. While also updating the show with a suitably low-key but fresh vibe.