Rowling has 14.2 million Twitter followers. She is not making an abstract point about feminism and activism. She is directly telling a subset of her followers that she genuinely believes that they have been tricked into transitioning from male to female, or that they want to be allowed to use the ladies’ room so they…

Sometimes a performer who is leaving a series has limited availability because they are filming something else. No idea if that was the case here.

Drama is when, after pulling that stunt and involuntarily having your stomach pumped at the local hospital, they tell you that they don’t accept your insurance and you owe $5800.

“Look, my mom may have been born and raised in Boston, but she was raised by Spanish nannies, not her parents, so that makes her Spanish. QED.”

Well meaning, fun, and dumb as a post. If we’d learned anything about Max Lord’s background earlier there might have been more pathos to his eagerness to please, and less villainy, but given that he felt like the main character through about half of the movie, I’d have settled for more Wonder Woman.

Mission Impossible: Our Star will Self-Destruct in Ten Seconds

The later seasons hold up much better on rewatch now than they seemed at the time. Though that may be an effect of how many bad sitcoms have aired since the 90s.

“It’s all right... former president Donald Trump broke his fall.”

This is just awful, Dr. Alford, and you deserved better. The men who pull this shit are often the high-roller researchers and departmental stars, capable of all sorts of unprofessional behavior without much consequence on that account; that makes things worse, because their prestige makes them better positioned to…

“Elite” schools are more likely to experience these problems: more of their faculty are men, and the emphasis on research productivity is so extreme that they can do almost anything in the classroom so long as they’re keeping the school in the top 10 in terms of research metrics. A tiny school with 65% women on the…

Sure, Indiana Jones, but I was also getting some real A-Team vibes from this episode.

I dragged another AV Club interview recently for being non-stop promotion/shilling instead of an actual engagement with the interviewee. So bravo for a Random Roles in the best traditions of the Club!

Seconded. Republicans and conservatives have decades of experience with this. Want to eliminate regulations and allow polluters to dump whatever they want into the public waterways? “Clean Water Act.” Want to demolish the buildings where poor people live downtown so you can put up expensive condos that price “those…

Not wasting our time got us President Donald Trump.

Hire Mr. T for a public campaign of reclamation: “I’m gonna get you, Sukkah!”

It’s fiction. Cline could just as easily have made his rich dude secretly love the Strawberry Shortcake cartoons, or anything outside of Cline’s own personal interests.

How is that problem to be addressed if not one book at a time?

Which states? The link goes to the whole GAO report, not the specific portion with this information. Or does the report not name them?

Hmm. I see that the White House Office of Communications office includes the Office of Media Affairs, Office of Research, Office of the Press Secretary, and the Office of Speechwriting.

You need to tell the dungeon that you want an open relationship.