This is basically what QAnon is doing to the far right.

My wife is an RN. Healthy, fit, lean, 48, Asian, blood type A. She was doing what she could to stay safe given the limited protective gear available and working hard saving lives back in April. She started getting bad headaches, then her whole digestive system became a noise factory, then the headaches got worse and…

The man played: The first black Supreme Court justice, the first black baseball player in the major leagues, the first black Supreme Court justice, the first black comic book hero and the Godfather of Soul.

Hey buddy, “I Can’t Believe This Isn’t A Quibi Show” is the hot, hot IP that *I’ve* been shopping around town!

I think this is the right call for this movie, but that AV Club is making the wrong call for movie reviews generally.

I mean, if you honestly believe that it’s romantic to commit suicide over thwarted love, that is a pretty big warning sign. I doubt that most Goethe nerds are living in that head space, though. And if we’re going with the logic that anyone who reads a book agrees with the actions of its characters, anyone who has a…

Maybe Goethe is in here for The Sorrows of Young Werther. I remember in a college class about Romantic 19th century literature reading that book and complaining to the professor in a class mostly female that Werther was an annoying, self-pitying narcissist. (I’m a guy.)

I live in Haight-Ashbury across the street from a top notch bookstore. Once they hosted a panel discussion on homeless youth, a huge issue here. Two panelists were current and former homeless youths who shared their stories and answered questions. It was off to a great start and very illuminating.

My sister was assigned an Ayn Rand book in high school - I often think that the assigned reading books they gave us were picked with the intention of making reading seem awful.  Oh, yay, we’re reading 3 books in a row about adulteresses who kill themselves?  Awesome!

Some missed the point.

I can’t imagine that any serious class would require you to read an Ayn Rand novel. Maybe as some sort of cultural analysis of conservatism you might want to read excerpts. But even though my intro to philosophy class read a bit of Rand, even she got annoyed when people talked about her writing instead of her ideas.…

It isn’t a book to be set aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force. 

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Even if you have to read Ayn Rand for a class, she has no place on display on a bookshelf. If you don’t have a fly swatter, however, Atlas Shrugged will smash the shit out of a fly.

Jokes on you, I don't fuckin read!

By this point, you have to give someone in this culture some credit for having books at all.

Somehow the biggest dude red flag of all hasn’t been mentioned yet: Chuck Palahniuk. It’s like literature specially written for men who score a shade too high on the psychopath test. I’ve never read him, but I’ve never met a big Chuckie Fightclub fan I didn’t find sort of creepy.

I assumed at first glance that they meant “Sons and Lovers”. Is Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” really that much of a red flag? I read it in high school and have forgotten everything about it.

2.) Lack of books.
3.) Suspiciously and exclusively similar to a Google search for “list of classic books” or things you might have to buy for a basic lit survey course.
4.) Nearly everything comes from the same basic philosophical perspective. Even if you broadly agree with it.

ooooh.