Honestly, I'm kind of hoping that they just turn out to be a more grounded sort of shady. That is, doing things that are absolutely morally questionable if not outright amoral, mixed with doing things that aren't actually all that bad or objectionable…just staying right near that line so you're forced to be…

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I fully favor this. I would like to just never leave the AVC bubble when it comes to wasting time on the internet. For one thing, reading the comments here only occasionally makes me regret it, as opposed to always everywhere else.

Every time I see something about Kansas, I'm mystified by the fact that they haven't voted that bozo out of office.

There was an interesting article I saw recently that was asking why we don't talk about wealth as a moral issue. That is: not the earning of wealth, not even the DESERVING of earning, but the actual morality of such obscene amassment of wealth when others are suffering.

Except all too frequently they push back on the people lower on the ladder than them, rather than the people above who are kicking down.

Yeah. And I don't mean to gloss over the violence advocated by radical leftists as well as anarchists (when you can find them these days), it's just that any more I am startled at how many otherwise "normal" conservatives go so extreme. I don't think that's necessarily inherent, I think it would have been considered…

I can't think of a good word for it. There does seem to be a distinction between "let's actually bludgeon that guy to death" and like…Joe Biden's "take him behind the school" sort of bluster. Perhaps it's that it's all violence, but whenever I look at Fox comments, I'm kind of shocked how quickly even minor points of…

I've only been to western montana, because my grandparents were from there and I have a few relatives in that area, but yeah. My impression of it has mostly been: gorgeous, and full of genuinely warm people.

Yeah, that's part of the asymmetry of liberal and conservative calls for fighting back. Liberals cheer on public shaming and relatively light physical violence. Conservatives tend to jump to talking about mass slaughter.

Seriously, I kind of don't trust people who don't like Michelle Obama. Because she managed to handle all the contradictory demands put on the First Lady while also deftly maneuvering around the equally contradictory demands of womanhood and motherhood, and ALSO managed the real olympic-level version of it, navigating…

Honestly….yeah. I would not be surprised by that.

Responding to an old comment here, sorry: but you are totally and completely right. I would totally watch the show if they were just kind of just back in a relationship and being zombies together. There's enough going on in the show that you don't really need them to be in conflict or pining to keep things moving. And…

But it was Sweden that wanted to try him. He claims to be afraid of extradition back to the US, which very conveniently let him play martyr instead of a bail-jumping asshole, without there being any extradition orders or anything.

It's also easily explainable by the fact that he's a newsworthy person who made a big dramatic show of flaunting them. At that point, they basically can't let anything slide.

There were greco-roman mummies. They've got pretty cool naturalistic portraits, too. Though a lot of the ones were also cut-rate jobs and they were stuffed with random scrap paper. There are a number of ancient texts we only have (though sometimes only in fragments) because someone went with a cheap mortuary and the…

The problem is that satirizing the very movie you're actually making is always going to be tricky.

And at least spider-man 3 was an interesting kind of bad. And it was distinctive. I can still recall scenes with perfect clarity, and it definitely excited a lot of strong opinions. So it was a level of engaging, even if it failed overall. I barely remember anything about the first Andrew Garfield movie. It's like…

the only thing that gives me pause is the divorce storyline (based on basically: the teaser for it last season, and the mention of it here). I kind of had the same problem with the trial back in season 1. The show has established that Kimmy was kidnapped, raped, and abused. Even as a send up as rape culture, there's…

"Slight" might also mean "empty". You can have 2.5 hours of spectacle that somehow also seems rather thin.