No he fucking wasn’t, Tim Russert was just as bad and impotent, and the Bush administration regularly sent Cheney to Meet the Press when he was there to control their message. Him being lionized after his death is absolutely maddening.

pls do

Nah. I hate Harden’s game as much as the next guy, but he’s still a useful NBA player, whereas Chris Paul is just a bloated contract with a scowl. I’d be pissed at having to carry his angry ass, too.

Someone online referred to Joker as “Black Panther for incels,” and I think that’s pretty spot-on.

Of course they’re art. Perhaps not *good* art, but art nevertheless.

My move is, I wait until about an hour in, then I start getting ready, and then when I’m ready to go, I look at the clock and decide, “Eh, it’s a little late to be showing up, fuck it,” and then I just stay home. It’s nice!

Mentioned above, as well, but I agree -- if I had to guess, I’d say Bannon made the comparison once to flatter Trump, and Trump has just been holding onto that.

I’m still not entirely convinced that Trump worships Andrew Jackson so much as Steve Bannon made the comparison once and Trump is just hanging onto that. I don’t believe for a second that Trump knows anything substantial about Andrew Jackson at all. 

Actually, the reason Savage jumped ship is because Vince *didn’t* want to put the belt back on him; Vince was all-in on “The New Generation” at that point and wanted to turn Savage into a sort of substitute Vince: commentator + backstage guy.

Standard Bill Kristol stuff. Can we just fire him into the sun, already?

It was the Silicon Valley watchdog/gossip site that got Gawker in trouble with Peter Thiel when they “outed” him (they didn’t actually out him, but they were very critical of him and he didn’t like it!).

Eh, if nothing else, Florida has camp value. Ain’t nothing even good-adjacent coming out of Mississippi.

Like that would even matter to him.

I mean... did it? The Republicans won the presidency and the House and got a Senate split not two years after all that. You can say that it was because Gore was a singularly “uninspiring” candidate (what a familiar refrain), but the Republicans didn’t exactly suffer from this “disastrous impeachment” that I hear…

Phasma’s the new Boba Fett: looks fuckin’ badass but doesn’t do a single damn thing of any interest. You can expect all sort of Phasma fic to come out of this latest trilogy.

Oh, it’s out there:

Didn’t Warner Bros have to specifically release a statement around that time confirming that Heath Ledger has finished filming, too, to stop speculation that they were going to have to pull a Brandon-Lee-in-The-Crow? The brazenness of this lie is stunning.

Right? I realize the wheels started to come off a bit at the end there, but it’s amazing how quickly the Lakers devolved into... this... practically the moment Jerry Buss died.

There was that episode of 30 Rock where he showed up as an actor who’d been cast to play Alec Baldwin’s character in a TV movie.

Pretty rich for a guy who married a girl named “Kiyomi.”