It’s not wiggle room. This is another example of Trump saying the thing he’s supposed to say and then immediately saying what he actually thinks. Remember Charlottesville, when he came out with a very scripted and inauthentic denunciation of white supremacists, and then immediately turned around and blamed “both sides”…

Films based on video games are, for some reason, incredibly difficult to do well.

When I was a young’un, I too believed myself to be an “equal opportunity offender.” This was the ‘90s, when all the sardonic high schoolers were listening to Dennis Leary’s “I’m An Asshole” on repeat because it was just oh. so. edgy.

It’s worth scrutinizing what people are really mad about when they tweet things like this. Are they most mad that Trump is siding against the American national intelligence community, which has a bloody legacy of influencing elections abroad when it suits its own interests and trampling its own citizens’ civil…

I don’t know how modern adults are supposed to date, except online.

You’re right, but that just means you have to convince them that this is what they want to do. This is the thing that will garner them praise or status. And we have proof that’s very easy to do with Trump. He legitimately thought that his family separation policy would be a massive, massive crowd pleaser. That’s why…

Your experience appears to be different, but I’ve always understood the general consensus to be that narcissists are actually very easy to manipulate. The limitation on that is usually that it’s difficult for neuro-typical people bear doing the things you have to do to manipulate them, at least for long periods of…

Oklahoma and North Carolina were the last states to make marital rape a crime . . . in 1993.

Would it have been better for the cops to aim for the knee rather than center mass which has a greater risk of death? YES. But that’s not how cops are trained today.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders addressed Kelly’s controversial grimace with reporters on Thursday, where she said that he was merely “displeased” that “he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese.” This is almost certainly total bullshit, but it’s still amusing to…

If you have an absolute, non-negotiable deal breaker, then it should be on your profile. If you would not, under any circumstances, date a smoker, they should know. If you would never, ever, ever date a Trump supporter, they should know. If your date absolutely must be vegan, they should know.

he could have taken the simple step of saying “it was a different time and I didn’t understand how to handle it blah blah, I’m sorry I didn’t take this more seriously etc.”

People tend to lash out more when they don’t know if they’ve fucked up. If you know you’ve fucked up, you may not panic because you know what to hide, what to admit to, what to spin, and what consequences you’re facing. But if you don’t know, then the panic is in trying to figure out what’s true and what isn’t, what…

I think it’s not just TV, but a recurring theme in Verhoeven’s movies is that there are bigger issues going on in the world, but that’s not our story. Our story is a small slice of this universe that, in most cases, doesn’t really change anything on the macro level. He uses TV and entertainment to reinforce the idea…

Second @Ishmael.

Even more generally, a scammer spending more than an hour hoping to get a $200 gift card does not sound like Scammer-of-the-Month material.

Nerdist ran with this theory in the above video, pointing out that the Force Awakens novelization describes how much of Kylo’s training was imprinted on Rey when he attempted to infiltrate her mind.

Greater Metropolitan Cleveland is very, very segregated. There are places where there are million dollar, exclusively white-owned homes on one side of the street, facing worn down two-bed, post-war black or latino-owned/rented ranch homes on the other side. The division is that stark.

Eh, you’d be surprised how many people cite Star Wars when trying to convince me that Portman is a bad actress. (Obviously I disagree, but I hear it frequently just the same.)

Tammy was pro-choice, until just mentioning that caused her budding career as a white nationalist propagandist to crater.