If you want better Christmas songs, people need to fucking write them. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You is the last original Christmas song to get any traction, and that shit is 22 years old.

And I’m saying that the administration’s MO has been to feed pliant press outlets a series of half-truths and outright bullshit every time an uncomfortable story emerges, that those same press outlets then uncritically parrot to their readers. One need look no further back than the torturous progression of Clinton’s…

This willing of the press to get less than the story rather than the whole story is not new, but I haven’t seen this many high profile agencies willing to accept this arrangement.

Holding journalists to a higher standard is fine; describing their job as approaching that standard, or faulting Trump as some kind of buffoon for taking them as they are, strikes me as giving them far too much credit. 

More precisely, each branch of the Government is supposed to check the other, but partisan cheerleading by “journalists” has degraded that norm to a point where civil society needs to pick up the slack.

what the actual job of real journalists is (enforcing checks and balances, reporting facts, investigating, providing transparency).

Considering Glenn Thrush just got a promotion to the NYT after being outed as a partisan flak (which shouldn’t have even been necessary considering his transparent bias), I’m not optimistic about the institutional press’s ability to reform itself.

I always felt that certain technical limitations to effects and choreography in the Original Trilogy hampered Lucas’ ability to show Vader at his most wantonly brutal. It started to develop in the Duel on Mustafar in RotS (seriously, pay attention to the fight choreography after they step back outside—it’s probably…

Seems intentional, since they properly copy-edited the Batgirl poster.

donor-minded adults trying to rein in the organized musical id of too-smart-for-their-own-good college students. 

I don’t care that much about spoilers, but what’s the point of publishing multiple spoiler-heavy posts on a film that’s been in theaters for less than 48 hours?

The dynamics of a Bernie-Trump campaign would have been quite different from those of the campaign we got, because Bernie’s message was much more well-tailored to the disaffected white working class types who swung the election for Trump. Given how much I was wrong about this year, I’m not confident in saying who…

Eichenwald is a delusional hack with a very questionable past, but I have little doubt the RNC would have burned Sanders to the ground without even trying.

Me neither, but when in Rome etc. etc.

How many Waltons, et al, would have to be killed before we saw actual change?

POLITICIANS ::clap:: ARE ::clap:: MORE ::clap:: POPULAR ::clap:: WHEN ::clap:: NOT ::clap:: RUNNING

Since when has the government declined to spend money on the basis of not actually having any?

He’s a patriot for Real America, and helped it Take Our Baseball Back from those coastal libruls. The Yankees even wear blue, just like those commucrats!

This

Depends on whether he stops in Baltimore first.