I’ll admit Clinton always sounds a bit hoarse to me, but that just makes me think whichever assistant is in charge of carrying her throat lozenges is really falling down on the job.

This remake of 2001 is way lamer than the original.

This is such a humane and kind response; I think you may have just made my heart grow three sizes!

I do think it might be possible and even beneficial to contextualize anti-Black violence in the United States in terms of broader racist and colonialist ideology, which would certainly include the lack of concern shown towards lives in Syria and Yemen and Afghanistan (among other places).

I don’t understand the lack of expression on Kim’s face. Are people who get a ton of plastic surgery like people in pressed linen?Always afraid to move for fear of ruining the effect?

Ancillary question : how do you sue on behalf of all “white, Jewish, and Christian” members of the population? Like, I fit two of those categories (white, Christian), and would like to be counted out, please and thanks.

Maybe she should stage some Julius Caesar business and get in a couple pro forma denials before she reluctantly accepts the presidency.

I know the premise of a lot of criticism of Clinton’s personality is that she is stiff or mechanical or pandering but this is actually pretty disarming. Like who wouldn’t want to get a beer* with someone who makes bad puns, is fully aware of how out of touch with the youths she is, but gamely engages anyways?

I take your point, I think. But, if we look at the judgment being leveled here, which is pretty mild, it seems like what people are saying is something like, these two people (and of course their editors) lack circumspection. There’s a bit of sollipsism in their attempt to interest others in their mixture of quotitian…

This reminds me of an interview I listened to with a philosopher whose primary focus was disability. Someone complained that a disabled person was depicted as ‘crawling around’ (i can’t remember the exact words) and his response was, ‘ok, fine, but what’s wrong with crawling?’ I think the reason disabled characters’…

I’ve never been able to be so magnanimous towards others, so credit to you. But, I also happen to think it’s a special kind of patronizing to withhold normative judgment from people, as though to say, ‘you’re not a part of my ethical world. Your actions, good or bad, don’t count to me.'

I don’t think there has ever been a musician so successful at making a carreer out of people hate watching her videos on youtube.

Oh God I just cringed in recognition so hard i might have given myself an aneurism. I once went to a conference where a questioner asked the speaker, a poet, “is this like...” and then just named every French critical theory book he could think of.

Good point. Honestly, i think most people are not put off by Portman’s intelligence, nor her pride in it, but by the sometimes overweaning sincerity of her public persona. Personally she seems like a basically inoffensive answer to the thought, “whatever happened to that woman from college who used to do the most…

To be fair, if anyone comes off badly in this, it’s Foer, who always struck me as Zack Braff with a half read copy of Rings of Saturn conspicuously visible in his bag.

So, caveat emptor, I’ve only read the apparently watered down English Tintin, which is, yes, a piece of colonial propaganda, but completely doing away (were that even possible) with it seems ill advised.

Come to the PNW, where it is almost annoyingly temperate. Seriously, I just want to go swimming in a mountain lake and it’s 70 degrees out. Wtf. #woeisme.

When asked about the Kardashian Beauty line, Kim stated: “If only we could forget about the beautiful for awhile and get down to the dainty and the dumpy.”

That video of Reese Witherspoonis mesmerizing. I want to get stoned and watch it forever

I haven’t cleaned my mirror in weeks (I find that the mist of water spots gives me a real soft focus look) so I am going to ignore this advice for sanitation reasons.