I totally understand the position that Maher's show should be cancelled, but I also think being confronted on air by somebody like Ice Cube might arguably be more productive, in the sense that it has the chance to teach white liberals something important.

Visually memorable, that I can see, but scary? Almost nothing happens the entire movie (ooh, a door closed! who cares) and the monster never kills anybody. I just kept waiting for the Babadook to do something scary enough to justify the way the movie portrayed him visually, but he never does. That's probably my…

Am I the only one who thought Babadook sucked? It was long and boring and the monster never did much of anything and the metaphor was just a little too obvious and the ending completely defanged the "monster" which wasn't even really a monster. Some of the visual aspects, especially early on were cool, but man…

I definitely agree, but as an aside this made me realize what I miss most about Ebert: he reminded us that it's OK to have a strong opinion you won't back down from, but also that there's no shame in readily accepting that it's just an opinion and other people may not agree, and that's OK too. We've definitely lost…

But I'm sure my narrow view of it isn't everything.

I will always know St. Louis as a racist asshole factory.

Further cementing St. Louis' reputation as a crap city.

He lacks the depth and warmth

The problem is the founder and CEO is a creep, and he hired creeps. Company culture starts at the top and sets the tone for the entire organization. They couldn't recognize it as a problem because they thought it was awesome.

Are we really calling speaking a foreign language "taking other cultures' words" now?

I love Firefly, but this is objectively true. Cowboy Bebop is some of the best sci-fi ever.

And on Firefly! Boom!

Apparently it grossed 100 million this weekend, so that's something.

What's a diorama?

This is the best articulation I've heard of this so far, thank you.

Agreed 100%… and yet here we are…

That would be another route to take, sure… I think that would be an even harder position to defend in court, though, I think. Suggesting that a popular, oft-prescribed drug directly contributed or may have contributed to the suicide of major celebrity is sticking your neck out into a lot of professional and legal…

You have to remember this is a legal document in a high stakes legal situation, so it's likely he's carefully considering what the legal ramifications of his statement will be. If he concludes, for example, that Ativan contributed to the cause of death, and he's challenged on this in court, he has to be prepared to…

Setting aside the fact that it's an adjective, not a noun…

It turns out that almost every single word we have for a stupid person ("idiot", "moron", etc.) were originally used to refer to the mentally handicapped… awkward…