She was historically unlikable—she and Trump were both were the most unlikable candidates since Gallup started measuring candidate favorability back in 1956:

Yep. Add the Electoral College to the list of obstacles that she faced. She didn’t do herself any favors there, either (“deplorables”, not turning out more votes in swing states, etc.).

I’m not even going to bother debating with you whether or not those examples were racist (for the record, I think that they were) or whether or not candidates are responsible for how they react to surrogates’ comments (remember Obama having to deal with the fallout surrounding Jeremiah Wright?). The widespread…

I clicked through to Merriam-Webster’s pages for they and for their “Word of the Year” using the links that Hughes provides and I don’t see anything about the 1950s mentioned on either of them. So I’m not even sure where he’s getting that. Maybe they revised it and deleted whatever Hughes is referring to. More antics!

You should get a pendant for being a pedant. Best I can do. 

As I said, I’m talking about the Clintons’ behavior during the campaign in 2008—not when Hillary served as part of his administration. Do you remember Bill comparing Obama’s victory in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson’s victory there in 1984 and 1988? How about Clinton campaign surrogate Geraldine Ferraro saying that…

To be fair, how she—and Bill—handled things in 2008 vis-à-vis running against Obama probably didn’t help her likability in 2016.

At the time, Merriam-Webster also noted that the use of “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun goes back to at least the ‘50s, so anyone who objects to its use in this way is wrong.

This is the best contribution in this whole fucking comments section. Vago for the win!

It’s his M.O. He’s almost certainly the most active writer in terms of responding to comments—he even used to repeatedly point out how he started off as an active member of the commentariat before becoming a writer (we’re talking pre-Kinja days). That itself would in fact be something to commend him for, but god does…

Sure. And you have a right to point out that the comments are dominated by crying 20-somethings fixating on the inclusion of one film, and I have a right to point out that they’re also dominated by Hassenger going up and down the comments responding to those 20-somethings with whinge and attempts at snark.

And Hassenger whining about 20-something white guys crying about it.

I play a Marvel game that has characters like Ghostrider, Robbie Reyes (a different version of Ghost Panther), and Ghost Panther (an alternate reality version in which T’Challa became Ghost Rider). For the Chinese server their names are all changed and parts of the their character models are blacked out. 

For this author, at least, the answer was the same it’s been every year: Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. It’s what I fall asleep to most nights, so of course it’s on constant rotation.

Plaza presided over last year’s event with a certain nervous giddiness...

This self-loathing emailer, who wholeheartedly supports a company making products too expensive for him to buy...

Erich von Stroheim. Orson Wells. Zach Snyder. Cinema’s Holy Trinity.  

The Whills. You can’t see them without a special Midi-chlorian microscope, but they’re just going to town on one another.

Any guesses as to which minor character will be depicted as a maybe-kinda-sorta member of the LGBTQ community, ya know, but only if you wanna see it that way? Our guess: Probably a robot. A space Roomba, perhaps.

Some of these pull quotes sound like they could’ve been from Meet Joe Black.