Unlike Atwood, I was aware that Merkel holds positions that I don’t agree with at all. If I lived in Germany, I strongly suspect I would be voting for someone else. She’s the current Leader of the Free World, though, and I think she gets props for that alone in this age of wannabe despots.

The Holdo Maneuver might be my favorite action scene from any action movie, ever. I still can’t believe it happened.

You don’t garner success by ostracizing your fan base.

That’s a good list and that list maker (along with the movie’s director) should feel good about it.

And he totally did! I loved every little dig at the old movies, and this is coming from someone who has personally been watching since 1977.

Yes! And when Poe himself, Mr. Damn The Torpedoes, was like “Shit, this is stupid as hell, let’s get the fuck outta here!”

God, that fucking ruled.

I feel like you missed the best one, where Poe Dameron, dashing space flyboy, pulls a mutiny on the cold and frigid new commander who’s obviously not as a good a choice as him in his own mind, and it turns out he’s the asshole, not the hero.

Also when hyperdrive kamikaze rendered basically every other form of space warfare obsolete

The whole cast is brilliant.

Relevant.

From last week:

Yes. Women and men are perfectly equal, racism is solved, cats and dogs live together, and inexperienced 20-year-olds are on a perfectly level playing field with mid-30s individuals.

Just reverse the genders and ask yourself how this story by a guy would be reviewed by jezebel

You also never met a woman who keeps texting you afterwards just because she doesn’t know the meaning of ‘ one night stand’. Yes, those exist as well. That doesn’t make her a misandrist, just clingy.

Man, if that’s all you got out of the story, I definitely don’t think your reading comprehension skills are really up to scratch. It wasn’t my favorite short story of all time, but I thought it was a very good dissection of the ways in which confusing power dynamics between men and women interact, and the way in…

Guess you missed the part at the end where he stalks her and calls her a whore huh? And the part where she’s 20 and he’s in his mid 30s.

Luke was wasted? He was never as layered and never as badass as he was in this film.

It’s both. They are not mutually exclusive.

This is quite a shock, since there has been virtually no substance at ESPN for many years now.