Watch American Experience’s “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War” from PBS (2004, Season 16 Ep2-3). It serves as a powerful epilogue to the Burns Documentary. It’s not from Burns but is in a very similar style. It doesn’t fully editorialize against the southerners, but the simple facts are so damning it doesn’t need…

Lincoln’s biggest fuckup was picking a political opponent from the opposite party as a VP. You should never pick a VP who doesn’t agree with you politically because that gives an incentive to affect change via assassination. Never let anyone vote with a bullet. When JFK was killed, LBJ continued and expanded his…

I didn’t say “No good person of color has been killed by police.”

Going to CBS as a lesser incarnation. Yet more reasons to mix up The State and The Kids in the Hall along with all the drag due to a scarcity of female cast. (though Kids didn’t immediately flop, they kind of slowly fizzled).

But it turns out the monster is here to mate with the bridge after hearing its mating call.

there is no reason not to go full-steam ahead with BEVs right now

All challenger candidates disappear between clinching and accepting the nomination. This isn’t new, just new reasons. (and usually they do private fundraisers. But they don’t campaign.)

I think LMM and Hamilton have more of a responsibility to use their platform for “Black Lives Matter” issues considering the subtext of Hamilton is that American History should belong to minorities too. (hence the casting of Black and Hispanics for white historical figures and the use of rap and hip hop.) This show…

This show made a big deal about caring about representation. But more important than putting a Lesbian on TV, was raising the profile of a Lesbian Character who can be important across various media for decades. That means making a good Kate Kane, not going down to the lesbian superhero store and getting a new lesbian…

wasn’t that short for “The First Evil?” How apropos considering O’Reilly’s seminal role in helping Fox News frog march us to this Trumpian Dystopia.

Once a child has aged out of the cute years, it’s time to get/have another.

The proto-South Park “Spirit of Christmas” and “Troops” were originally made and distributed on physical media and were then transferred to computer files that were e-mailed and moved over the internet various ways. So I guess that is why the author doesn’t count them. “405" was made for the internet and distributed…

yes. It’s nice that these companies are against racism and actually being willing to say “Black Lives Matter” is progress. But saying you are anti-racist is the safest “controversial” stance you can have. If they aren’t willing to call out the police, they are spouting safe empty rhetoric. Be specific in what you…

So you are Dutch? I assume you’re Dutch. I can’t think of who else lived in America before the Pilgrims.  /s

Here is the lifehack. Don’t overinterpret tiny things like a period in a text. Your brain may read it as a passive aggressive statement. It is not. Human brains look for meaning and context even where none exists. Typed messages are terrible at conveying this.  If you let yourself respond emotionally you may create a …

I don’t think people should be shamed for giving their special needs adoptee to another (better?) situation. You don’t want a child to suffer because of parents’ pride. They also shouldn’t be shamed for trying to adopt a special needs child even if they know it might not work out. You don’t want a situation where…

You don’t wan’t to use “Chad.” That’s the name incels use for guys who can talk to women without making them cringe. The use of “Chad” and “Stacy” was even a plot point in the “Law & Order: SVU” episode on incel violence (“Stacy” is the name they use for women who won’t touch an incel or a red-piller). Not suggesting…

The most recent iteration of Journey is kind of interesting. When they had to hire a new lead singer they hired the singer from a Journey cover band they saw on YouTube to basically do an impersonation of their most famous recordings. Most bands aren’t willing to lean into the proposition that they are a nostalgia…

lol. Instead of ordering a plain pizza with no cheese, no sauce, no toppings, they insist on the Specialty Pizza with no cheese, no sauce, no toppings. “and give me extra cheese, hold the cheese!”

You mean you didn’t like the Homosexuality as Horror bit with the Kid and the mentally/emotionally handicappped Trashcan Man?