She’s even earned the right to talk a little bit of shit about Radiohead, as she does in the doc; she gave them their first big stadium gigs, opening for her on the Jagged Little Pill tour.

What does a “scarcity mindset” mean?

Did people give out Newports in your neighborhood?

Barney’s opinion of Lord Acton are unknown at this time.

It’s a very stupid, yet esoteric, Simpsons joke.

I, a nobody, will argue that power draws. Show me someone corrupted by power and I’ll show you someone who was corrupt to begin with.

LORD PALMERSTON!

especially Kunis, who reminds me a lot of the Russian Jewish immigrants I knew as a kid.

I really want things to be better, but based on the last 20 years, no way. If you really think anyone more liberal than breyer is getting past the Senate, you haven’t been watching. Manchin and simena will make everyone eat shit, the Republicans will prove there are no rules, and no one better will get confirmed.

To Amy Adams credit, her accent in The Master was memorable.

Not really a comedy, but the otherwise great Velvet Goldmine is pretty funny when Christian Bale plays his teenage self.

Dig up, stupid.

Actually, Songs for Dustmites is a great album.

A monster like him probably likes Neopolitan ice cream.

Here’s a recent article from the AVClub, where Sam Barsanti has the very stupid opinion that you shouldn’t make a biopic if you don’t have approval from the subject or family/estate.

That was always something that baffled me about Bill Clinton.  Apparently in person he had incredible personal magnetism/charisma... but to me he always looked like a used car salesman at the end of the bar, checking out the women still around at last call.

Don’t worry, Reade is using this as an excuse for validation and maximum attention on Twitter.

Tatiana Tenreyro needed a long-form article for her portfolio. That’s it.

He also, incidentally, defended calculus (through satires)