I disagree. See my example from his atheism documentary. If parroting "fake history" in the service proving your point and denigrating your opponents isn't ill-informed and thoughtless, then I don't know how else you'd define those words.

You have the gall to call someone else lazy while using the term "virtue signaling"? If there's a lazier attack phrase on the internet, I have yet to come across it.

You could make that case, but it would be a very poor one. People voted for Trump for all kinds of reason, but largely he was successful in creating a victim narrative that pointed in the finger at an "other" people could demonize and he made pie in the sky promises about bringing back manufacturing jobs. Sure, there…

Congrats. I can't really pinpoint exactly what changed for me, but I am also happily married. Good times.

I think the issue with Summer's invite to the party is one of us seeing the relationship through Tom's eyes. The relationship was everything to him, but it wasn't that important to her. He was just a guy she dated for a while who was kind of cool and would make a good friend. She never built him up into "the one" so…

If that was a metaphor, it was a stupid metaphor. We know that two separate women accused him and both women gave similar testimony. We know he's a powerful man in Hollywood. We know his demeanor. We know the statistics about sexual harassment and assault and why women very rarely make false accusations. Especially…

Are you honestly trying to tell me that white men are being discriminated against? Give me a break. We're not talking in the abstract here. We're talking about one specific person. And based on what we know, people feel like he's probably guilty. They have no obligation to be impartial and reserve judgement because…

I don't care if he stole the Hope Diamond. It's not relevant information that anyone other than his parole officer, his family, and maybe his next employer needs to know. Calling it fake news would elevate it to a level it doesn't deserve. It's not even news.

Courts and juries have to remain impartial. We, as individuals, have no such mandate. There's really no way to remain completely impartial in cases like this. If you assume that the man being accused is innocent, then you're also assuming that the woman accusing him is guilty of lying. There's really no middle ground…

I'll allow it.

So you wanted to se Waiting for Private Ryan?

The likes are coming from inside the house!

Maybe. It got both a screenplay and a directing nomination, which would seem like a good predictor. Probably less so when you're talking about stuff like costuming and hairstyling/makeup. I'm not arguing that it didn't deserve a best picture nomination. I just don't trust the Academy to have given it one under the old…

I don't doubt it. I wasn't asserting otherwise. I was responding to the notion that having more than five nominees cheapens the honor by saying that's a plus when you're talking about mediocre Oscar bait.

I'd need to watch the trilogy again to have a strong opinion on which movie is the best. I remember liking ROTK quite a bit though, minus the 15 false endings. I agree that it was an award more for the trilogy as a whole than just that one movie. Even if the previous two films also got Best Picture nominations.

Lacrosse is an honorable sport that goes back to the days of our Native American forebearers. While it has more recently become inundated with various strains of rich, preppy douche whose privelaged cluelessness may turn off casual fans, the game itself has never been played at a higher level than it's being played…

Also a fair point. Sounds like we both would have included both films in our personal lists.

You should place a bet before tomorrow night then. You could get very favorable odds on either of those.

Actually, when you look back at it, the Best Director Oscar has a dark horse movie in there more often than it doesn't. I only count two years between 1990 (kind of an arbitrary starting point but I don't have all day to research) and the field expansion in 2009 when the two categories matched up completely. The…

Don't get me wrong. JFK is complete conspiracy theory garbage when judged from a factual standpoint. I'm just talking about its cultural importance, which is pretty high despite all that. Who hasn't heard a "back and to the left" joke at some point? Even Seinfeld got in on the act.