I thought Tracy Morgan’s joke that he made all his money on the road (“You mean touring” “No, I got hit by a Truck”), was perfect. It was totally a joke Tracy Morgan would have made before the accident, but afterward it was poignant, self-deprecating, and self-referential in just the right way, while still being…

It’s dated, but I still prefer the term “Icer” As in “Vanilla Icer.”

To everyone claiming previous Star Wars had notoriously bad writing: Writing and dialogue aren’t the same thing. Star Wars is full of terrible dialogue and corny exposition (maybe purposely so), but good writing includes plot, structure, themes, characters and world building and I’d say the original trilogy is good in…

They seem like escapism from all that but really they teach people to just give in to reactionary authoritarianism wrapped in nostalgia. The taglines should be “...Because Social Progress is Exhausting*” *offer applies only to straight cis whites.

This was Peter re-telling the New Avengers his identity after Mephisto/Dr. Strange magically covered it up. So most (all?) of these people previously knew Spider-man’s identity. But you are right that this is the second time in a couple of years that Spidey revealed his identity to the New Avengers and Jessica Jones.…

But what did you do? I really don’t understand when some recast The Mass Effect 3 response as a precursor to Gamergate type behavior. I just remember a bunch of people saying that the ending was bad, explaining why and explaining that it bummed them out. It felt like support group stuff, not aggression. Were people…

Yeah, the Mass Effect 3 thing wasn’t about entitled fans being “rude and loud about the video game not being what they thought it would be.” They were universally saying that one crucial aspect of a beloved artwork was bad to the point of being broken. This wasn’t “Szechuan Chicken” or “Snyder cut” or “Rey is a Mary…

But remember Pied Piper went down in flames days later, so Bighetti’s dad actually made out like a bandit on that deal by not trusting anything his son or his son’s friends do. That was hilarious though.

When they were talking about what sound they were creating and everyone started screaming, I thought they had created the fabled “brown sound” that makes everyone crap themselves.

You can’t make a movie about Roger Ailes or Fox-News without some foot-fetish/leg-fetish consultants. He hired anchors, decided who got on air and designed sets based upon showing off women’s legs. Fox news was a foot/leg fetish channel with a news theme. And the women who wanted a career had to put up with it, both…

It is lazy writing because they can’t be bothered to depict how journalism really happens. They figure some sex will explain it better and titillate the audience. It is the equivalent of screenwriters inventing torture scenes to gain crucial intelligence. Wrong, Lazy and Dangerous.

Rush-to-judgement villification of innocent people by way of sensationalist, populist shoddy journalism is one of Fox News’ specialties. They would have been part of the media circus outside Jewell’s house except they didn’t go on the air until the very month the FBI exonerated Jewell.

His actual name is written in Arabic script, so there is no single correct spelling in Roman script/English; there are multiple legitimate ways to transliterate/transcribe between scripts. To the extent there is a right answer, it is whatever Gaddafi himself preferred. The prominence of so many different spellings…

Straw man, Whataboutism, yep extremely bad faith. 

The actual bomber was a white male conservative anti-abortion anti-gay christian identity white supremacist. To use this story as an example of white men getting screwed over by the media rushing to judgement is like saying white conservative men are getting screwed over because Bret Kavanaugh got accused of rape when…

“Unless they can CGI a man’s nose smaller”

He was correcting Salters, but doing it so badly that it didn’t inform the viewers. So really it only served to let Salters know she was wrong. If you are going to correct her, take advantage of the opening she gave you and say “It looks like it might be the hamstring they are working on.” That way it is a dialogue…

Other Daemons have talked: Asriel’s and Roger’s and the Master’s. I think only in the opener. In each case the Daemon has the opposite gender. I think the Daemons only talk with their person, not with others. (The talking may be more telepathic— think of Pan telling Lyra not to say things in situations where he could…

Isn’t it for book-readers and non-book-readers? Would you rather have a flame war about spoilers? There are completely different discussions to be had. It’s true that not all book-based shows need to be split up like this, but I think it is a good idea for shows based on hugely popular books full of surprises (I…

I want an in depth word by word deconstructuion of SAS’s behavior in this case, and without Deadspin, it may fall to Harriot. I am just infuriated by Smith and most coverage amounts to “oooh... catfight between Stephen A. Smith and Eric Reid.”