Making it even worse is that if you’re within $100, you win both showcases. So she not only barely lost her prizes, she barely missed out on winning both sets of prizes, which according to my quick math, would have added up to around $60,000 in stuff.

The point is those numbers are effectively no different. So if I napster music, I get it for free and the artist gets no money. If I spotify music, I pay for it and the artist gets no money. But one of those is somehow on the up and up and one of those is somehow a crime.

Thank God Metallica stepped in and basically sacrificed their reputation to take out Napster.

“almost no one tried to argue New Kids On The Block were of a piece with Sonic Youth”

This idea that Superhero movies prevent other movies from being made is so bizarre and so obviously subjective. Fucking Parasite just won multiple Academy Awards! We’re supposed to be in some era of cultural hegemony of the super hero blockbuster and yet a foreign-language film about the evils of capitalism was one of…

Pretty cool how quickly their opinion of her has swung from “damn libtard SJWs forcing a woman into my space laser story for politics!1!!1!!” to “she’s a hero of conservatives everywhere!1!!1"

That one time was enough, the moment we all let our guard down

“Simply that she goes to restaurants. To my mind, that does not constitute a transgression serious enough to revoke your sympathy.”

This is my kind of meeting!

“where any achievement, from getting an ‘A’ on an assignment to winning the Rugby World Cup, is met with a grim nod and a stern reminder not to get too full of yourself.”

Remember how Nancy Pelosi admitted she blocked an earlier stimulus that would have gotten us all $1,200 again because she didn’t want Trump to get credit fro it? Sure, Republicans may be fucking terrible, but their being shitty does not at all preclude the Democrats from also being shitty

Just want to chime in with more praise for His House. Watched while bored one night thinking it would be kind of a rote horror film and it ended up being one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while. Really well done, thought-provoking, scary, heartbreaking, it’s just got it all.

Yeah, especially since this is followed by a character googling Bill Maher’s writing staff and commenting on how white they are

“I’m not from Appalachia, but confidently state the reason people think this isn’t a good depiction of the place I’m not from is because they don’t like its politics.”

I give it 3 episodes before cancellation

Buddy, I’ve got some terrible news about what happens if you call the police in that exact situation...

What the hell is this? A review of a popular show with a dedicated audience?!?

It’s fun because every instance of people whining about cancel culture is exactly like this. One person tells a heavily edited version of events that makes it sound quite unreasonable, and then 5 minutes later someone comes along with the actual details and it’s just a banal story that makes complete sense. It’s…

It’s been so weird to watch Lord and Miller blow up like they have, and even more surreal to see Clone High start to get mainstream attention. This was one of those shows in the pre-internet are (well, technically not pre-internet, but before the internet was anything like it is now) that felt like it belonged to only…

In a league with both Luis Robert and Byron Buxton? That’s even more stupid than your uninformed political takes