Actually I did read your link — I didn't put much stock in it because it runs with Romney's lie that he reached out to MassGAP before the election to find suitable women to appoint.

Judging by some of the comments above, free and unresearched alternative to the OED would be more accurate.

No, I said it was meaningless if there's no policy backbone to it. An affirmative action quota is one way of doing it but not the only way.

Well the main reason it backfired on him was that awful choice of phrasing, but even if he had chosen his words better he still had a bad track record on affirmative action, plus having a list of women candidates without a policy to encourage appointing them is meaningless.

Ah, OK. I see what you mean now.

Not the full story.

I'm happy for people to call out colonialism for the evil it was, but it can't be blamed for everything. Military expansionism predates European colonialism by just about the entire span of human history.

I will do you the favour of assuming you're not trolling, but your reply does not fill me with confidence.

Yep.

That's pretty much my take on it too.

Only if you don't understand the difference between correlation and causation.

Counter-counterpoint: not all shitty American citizens like Trump.

I don't know if it would have made The Simpsons a better show having a more diverse writing team, but it would have made it easier to defend its production.

Ian Maxtone-Graham sounds like the child of a laser printer and an evangelist.

I have it on good authority that Disney became a lot more anti-Semitic after they froze his head.

It's the Adam Sandler school of filmmaking. If you can get a production company to pay you to go holiday, why not?

The doll's origin story will be told in Annabelle: Made in China.

I get that. But there are tons of great films and series out there. Why go out of your way to see something that you can tell is, at best, going to be competent? If I was away from home and it was on TV I'd probably watch it.

I hate to be obtuse, but what was the joke?

Heh. Didn't know that about Richard Hell. At least that was his real name, right? :-)