That it’s not his last name. Middle names are the parents’ choice, they can be literally anything within the law. His parents could’ve instead called him “de Soto” or “da Vinci” or “von Hindenburg” or “Ortega y Gasset” or “Al Saud” or “Ó Briain” or “ben Maimon” if they wanted to, and I’m pretty sure none of those…

The “how can you believe the horror stories when X was a lie?” defense has a long history, with X being everything from the Crucified Soldier to Nazi responsability for the Katyn Massacre to Saddam’s wood chipper to “A Rape on Campus” to... Jussie Smollett’s bullshit, I suppose.

But it’s still a middle name, that’s just where they got it from. My father’s mother’s maiden name was “Tănase,” a fairly common Romanian surname - so common that I don’t mind sharing the information - that’s occasionally used as a given name, but if I called my firstborn son Daniel Tănase [my real surname], it…

That doesn’t answer my question, and you yourself mentioned censorship.

That’s one of his middle names, though. Neither one of his parents was a “de Pfeffel,” they just called him that because they didn’t love him.

Jymy de Hendryckse, surely.

So you’d be OK with a mainstream film or series depicting the Holocaust as a hoax and the Nazis as the good guys as long as all the characters and scenes were made up?

Nobody’s wasting their time trying to change Holocaust deniers’ minds. But those people still need to recruit. Shit like this plants the seeds of doubt.

A story that’s portrayed as an obvious fantasy doesn’t have the same responsabilities as one that’s portrayed as fiction taking place in the real world.

I was with you until “the other.” The outrage over Confederate wasn’t valid, it wasn’t even about the show.

What did you think I was saying, smart guy?

I think you missed the point I was replying to.

Because if there’s one thing we know about motorcycles, it’s that driving one makes you physically untouchable.

Make trek not war.

Young? He’ll be older when this is finally released than Bale was when TDK hit theaters.

I love me some paparzi, it’s delicious, especially in gazpacho.

That utility belt on his left thigh looks like a garter and undermines whatever masculine look they were going for.

And to think some people were actually complaining about Bloomberg “buying” his way onto the debate stage. If you want to expose him as a lousy candidate, that’s exactly where you need him to be.

That pig is lucky it didn’t fall on its head.

And all you got was this lousy T-shirt.