One my musical Everests is getting through a single Fall album without giving up. I have Hex Enduction Hour and have tried several times - I don't think I'll be successful, though I do love The Classical.
I get why the appeal and why they have such a tiny but passionate fandom, the band just isn't for me.

Not saying Chelsea Clinton is of the people, but at least she's had ambitions in her life extending beyond putting her name on cheaply-made shit designed by other people and selling it for a huge premium in an undoubtedly tacky Manhattan store. Anyone who is annoyed by Chelsea Clinton and not more annoyed by Ivanka…

You're right, they could have had a fucking rape tape and the Evangelicals would have still voted for him. I do think an op-ed from the director of the FBI might have swayed some of the more affluent suburban GOP voters.

Norms and precedent are over - the GOP has become the party of "get in, get rich and get out before the shit hits the fan" much like their Russian benefactors. Obama's fault for not seeing it earlier - though it's hard to be too harsh on him for wanting to cling to his belief in the basic decency of the opposing party.

If they found her wealthy donors upsetting they should have been absolutely appalled by Trump's. His number one money guy (Mercer) only got into politics because the IRS slapped his hedge fund with $7 billion in back taxes that I'm sure are about to go away. Money well-spent.

Yup - to paraphrase Tywin Lannister, was it truly just of Obama to leave the American people to a dangerous lunatic through his inaction on the Russia scandal?
I still love the guy and he was better than this country deserves, but the last year has really been a humbling reminder of just how little it matters when you…

You know the crazy thing about Comey? He wanted to come forward with the Russia/Trump stuff in June or July of last year with an op-ed but he got overruled by the rest of the Obama national security team. They didn't think the case was strong enough for multiple agencies to get behind it.
Can you imagine a modern…

Ugh, I'd rather be in the middle of a Steve Bannon/Roger Stone human centipede than watch this shit. I'm sure there will be lots of scenes featuring the kinds of totally-not-racist Midwestern men the Clinton campaign should have gone after.

There is a much bigger gap between long and short form tax returns than there is between long and short form birth certificates.

Not a great film. She and Adrien Brody were by far the least interesting things in the movie. That said I loved Eamonn Walker's Howlin' Wolf and Mos Def as Chuck Berry.

That song is a domestic abuse anthem? The whole thing is basically a fuck you to her former band mates who were fired and screwed out of royalties. The lyrics aren't even subtle about it. It is totally venal and narcissistic.

I got polled about her once, probably around 2006. Like, a 30 minute phone survey where I had to give numerical rankings on how I felt about Beyonce. At the time I primarily associated her with the late 90s/early 00s teen pop wave so my answers were not super positive. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

The manga is often even more obtuse than the films and TV shows. The second volume of the manga, Man-Machine Interface, is gorgeously drawn and smothered in technical jargon to the point of unreadability. I strongly prefer Production IG's version of Ghost in the Shell to Masamune Shirow's. The darker tone of the…

About 20 to 30 missing minutes of additional screentime upfront is what keeps GiTS from being an all time great science fiction film, in my opinion. A bit more character development could have perhaps put the climax of the film where Motoko merges with the Puppet Master in context.

If I had to use emojis to describe my time in Grenada, it would be, palmtree, flamethrower, baby, flamethrower, mosquito, mosquito, mosquito, mosquito…

Lara Croft should look more like her design from the 2013 Tomb Raider than the "realistic" shop shown here. The best female rock climbers are thin and toned as hell, not pear-shaped, and many of them are quite short, 5'2" or less. Sometimes it makes sense to portray characters who engage in intense physical activity…

I get that the movie didn't give proper credit to the Canadians but I thought Ken Taylor and his wife came across unambiguously as absolute heroes anyway. Not having any background on the incident at the time, my one big takeaway from the movie when I first saw it was "Wow, that Canadian Ambassador is a saint on…

Yeah, I'm sure "it was just a headlock!" is going to keep you out of jail. The cops are always going to go with what the woman says in that situation (justifiably, since 99 percent of the time the woman is the victim).

I'm with you, I don't go for that worst case scenario type humor. Good, clean fun and no one gets hurt, that's what I say.

There's an old quote that was popular in the late Soviet era in Russia - I don't remember it exactly, but paraphrased it was "The difference between American propaganda and Soviet propaganda is that the Americans believe theirs."