Yeah, Renner wasn't the issue in the movie. I actually like his character and his situation. But it is one of the most weirdly structured movies of all time. For me it felt like it ended right in the middle, for no reason at all, with no conclusion or closure of any kind. Just a random car chase and then—THE END. Then…

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Yes. But…he has an accent. Mexicans don't have accents. Or something.

Jesus.

This kind of shit's crazy, right? I'm not losing my mind because I don't think a cartoon skunk from the 1950s whose whole existence was to be laughed at because of how clueless he was in love is some paragon of rape culture? Right?

They inverted the trope on a couple of occasions. But the vast majority of episodes end with Pepe decidedly not getting the girl. She's a cat. He's a skunk. It wasn't going to work out.

Holy shit, man. I'm as liberal as they come, and I never realized that there was a whole cadre of us out there interpreting a bunch of cartoon goofs from the 1950s as paragons of racist and sexist culture until I started reading these articles on the AVclub.

This is one of those things, man. Don't most people have a cousin who is stupid, lazy and incapable? Are we not supposed to have funny Mexican cartoon characters because some people believe they may or may not fall into some borderline stereotype? Now, if Speedy or Slowpoke were constantly hitting on…

Both of my maternal grandparents were born in Mexico. To Mexican-Americans, Speedy Gonzalez is just a mouse who runs real fast and talks like our great uncles and other distant relatives who visit once every couple of years.

Whose argument? Because my point is that it's Stewart who has claimed he was "simply" telling jokes. I would be inclined to agree with the assertion that there's no such thing as "simply" making jokes. But, again, that's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that STEWART repeatedly claimed that's all he was doing.

Ehhhhh. Taibbi actually can support his claims with examples from the text. Whether one is convinced or not is another matter, but he's hardly the first person to point out that Nolan's Batfilms are infused with a specific kind of conservative strain.

Watch the state congressional discussions on legalizing MMA in New York earlier this year. Regardless of your stance, it's indescribably stupefying at how little the vast majority of those people knew about MMA. Like, this was one of those issues that a lot of people were paying attention to (you know, people should…

It was "aiight." I found it really funny at first, but about an hour into it I was checking my watch and disappointed that I still had at least a half hour left to sit through. I think the joke just got redundant after awhile.

Yeah, fair points, and I would even go so far as saying there's some significant overlap between what Robbins does and what a number of therapeutic orientations also intend to do. That kind of comment would make a lot of clinicians flinch. But, I'm not wrong. And, as you have pointed out, there are a fair amount of…

As a practicing mental health clinician who is skeptical of most (but not all) pharamaceutical interventions, I've still been accused by clients on a number of occasions of "pushing" pills on them simply because it's my duty as a professional to inform them of their options. When I ask them, "Would you be interested…

I don't see comedians as just "clowns." The best comedians are akin to the best writers or best artists of any kind (including clowns, btw). But Stewart always played the role of "Hey, I'm JUST a comedian." HE was the one who kept trying to portray that. And he was being disingenuous because it was obvious that he was…

This claim of his that he's not a "journalist" he's a "comedian" has always been disingenuous. He obviously had more in mind than simply making jokes.

I'm almost certain his books and seminars have had no significant impact on how people make money. I suppose that's the part for me that feels sleazy and disingenuous about the whole thing, even though I think his actual methods are quite useful for other means.

It's interesting, because I'm actually fairly fond of Robbins' work. But, I think his approach would be far more effective in simply making people feel more content and more empowered in their day-to-day lives than in actually turning anyone into millionaires or whatever. The things he talks about are an effective…

I think I like your list better.