Right? It’s always amazing to see just how awful bad scenes can be in otherwise superb films.

Yes. Guilty until proven innocent.

Before blaming Trump for societal ills, check a mirror.

But I thought Charlie don’t surf.

This article makes the program appear like a random hatchet job. It’s actually the latest in Frontline’s series The Choice, produced every election year. They’re about the best of their kind.

Dear Stassa,

GREAT article.

His friend Morgan Freeman feels exactly the same way about race. Funny how nobody’s jumping down his throat.

Eastwood is tuned into America’s “fraught, problematic relationship with race and gender that is nonetheless integral to its very history,” which is why (a) he wins Oscars and (b) I moved to Paris.

“Well, it’s sure better than American Sniper.”

Their incoherent, rambling catastrophizings about how the wild danger of being off the gold standard will inevitably lead to a race war has something to do with my libertarian fatigue.

It’s what happens when people think scenes are boring.

PS - I was just reading some of the comments here and by all means if the chart is helpful as an incentive then that’s wonderful. I’ve just encountered a lot of very talented people who have felt very discouraged by these diagrams they keep making, and again, it can be easy to forget (literally! in both senses) that…

“Professional” writer here (i.e. I quit my day job & am internationally published) — this is a pet peeve of mine: I came into literature from a very different field (finance) and never did the MFA thing, no creative workshops, not even any English or literature classes at all until I’d signed with the agency we all…

This is.

Presumably.

Exactly. The obliviousness you describe is what makes me nervous. I admire many things about Affleck, but the angry white male Red Sox loving meathead Bill Burr meathead thing is a bit dudebro for an election season featuring Thump.

I’m a theist because Lennon met McCartney but an atheist because of knees and teeth.

I’m not sure why Jezebel seems to think it has to tread a thin line between much needed saucy provocative feminism and Trump-level bigotry. The upcoming sale? I don’t know.

Dear Mr Fahey

No. And it’s not really that insignificant.

It may be in science’s interest to (temporarily, say, pace Trump) broaden the scope of the definition of unsolicited. I say this after having bingeviewed not just several hours of Knotts era Three’s Company but the unauthorized made-for-tv film dramatization of the making of the same (introduced by one J. DeWitt) and…

It’s not a “hate crime.” Classifying it as a hate crime makes it rational.

Anybody who can kill dozens of people is totally insane. If that’s not the definition of insane, there is no definition of insane. What happened today has zero relation to the discourse surrounding political identity, homophobia, or religion.

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