I don’t think Bezos hates his domestic staff, because that would presume that he thinks about them enough to rise to the level of hate. I think it’s contempt mixed with pathological indifference. He treats human beings the way the rest of us treat bugs, and he’s probably baffled when any of them complain about the…

I imagine that this is what Andy Warhol had in mind when he said that, in the future, everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes. This is Rotisserie Man’s moment in the spotlight, and he’ll be talking about it for the rest of his life to a circle of increasingly bored friends, family, and elevator-riding strangers.

You really have to respect his unshakable confidence that this dumb thing he’s doing is somehow meaningful - not just to him, but to all of Philadelphia. Ahab had his whale; this guy has a slab of greasy chicken in a plastic container.

“Tonight on Fox News: Bono reports that he saw his wife with crypto-Muslim Barack Hussein Obama in the Lincoln Bedroom! Was his drink drugged? And where was Michelle during this night of White House wife-swapping? We’ll have the My Pillow guy on to discuss these explosive allegations.”

What I can’t figure out is why, for twelve years now, he’s been saying the same thing over and over again. “Making great progress! It will be out soon!” That might be true now (though I have my doubts), but it certainly wasn’t true ten years ago, or eight years ago, or even four years ago, so why the ceaseless…

He regularly referred to himself as a genius, and a lot of people wanted it to be true and just acted as if it was clear and self-evident. Good rule of thumb, though: actual geniuses don’t tell you about their genius. That’s just a label, meaningless to them. They’re too busy seeing the world in a way that only…

60-year-old Reeves is doing just fine in the John Wick movies. I agree that there were serious issues with those action scenes, but the problem wasn’t in front of the cameras.

I’ve never seen a movie so ambivalent about its own existence. It was a Matrix movie, but also an anti-Matrix movie, and so as a Matrix movie it had big action set pieces, but as an anti-Matrix movie those scenes were created with none of the care or passion that went into the first film. I was just disappointed that…

If we don’t destroy ourselves first, humans will eventually have some sort of metaverse to play/work/meet in, but it won’t be built by Facebook. That company is only good at designing creepy ways of invading their users’ privacy (and dismantling democracy, of course). It’s also probably at least 10-15 years away,…

I was struck by the unexamined assumption distributed throughout the article that this thing that happened was an important event and we should care.

I was watching “The Anarchists,” a documentary on HBO about libertarian “anarchists” who move to Mexico to set up their own idyllic community (within which terrible things start to happen), and there are similar people featured there. The spiritual leader is a man who got rich in the first dot-com boom, then when the…

You’ve got to keep those babies alive, impoverished, and poorly educated so that you can throw them in jail later in life.

Radicalized cops believe their job is to kill or be killed. Hyper-radicalized police unions ensure that there are never any consequences when the wrong person gets killed. Sensationalist media plays it all for page views.

Descendants of John Wilkes Booth have issued a statement that Abraham Lincoln may have been also involved in some of the fire exchange on that theater balcony, possibly firing back at his assassin.

Living life without a car impacts my life in many ways, big and small, but one of them is businesses like Costco that exist solely in the sections of town you have to drive to (or take the bus, if you hate yourself) are almost entirely theoretical to me. I’ve never been there, I’ve never seen one from the outside; you…

Every now and then I still come across random dudes on the internet insisting that it’s somehow effeminate for a man to sit down while peeing, which seems like a weird hill to die on. I feel like there are dozens of ways for me to show what sort of man I am, and this really isn’t one of them.

If you want to twist the knife a little bit, you can point out that Wilde made these cuts while also deciding that the scenes featuring her own on-screen character were so important they just had to be in the final cut.

Yeah, the scene where the [spoiler alert] alien-possessed stripper pulls out a minigun and unleashes destruction on everything around her was oddly cathartic. I watched that movie many times back in the day, and now you have me wondering whether it’s available on streaming somewhere.

That’s the story they tell. It’s almost certainly not true, though.

I’m curious whether this is who Ellen always was, even back in the day when she was scrounging for opportunities to do stand-up, or if money and fame went straight to her head and turned her into a garbage human being. Would someone please bankroll the Netflix documentary that will answer these questions for me?