What IS “paternalistic” is to assume that a woman is unable to make her own decisions or to understand a contract to which she agreed, or that she is unable to be responsible if she decides to terminate the contract.

Every other outlet was more than happy, for business reasons, to announce that the anti-Beyoncé rally was real, and happening, and preposterous. Any more preposterous than the hordes of reporters standing out in the rain right now waiting for phantom reactionaries?

And for people who are too young, she faced a firestorm for having come out; people demanded she be fired, certain radio hosts called her “Ellen Degenerate” and considered themselves fiendishly clever, and she was basically shunned by craven networks who feared losing their audiences.

Yeah, that Blaziken hair... I did appreciate the stars & stripes shoes though.

Stories like this are really important for people who wave away concerns about concussions with “they knew what they were getting into when they chose football.” They really, really didn’t. When most of today’s pro players started out in the game, they knew about the possibility of physical damage but the neurological…

While I sincerely doubt that Beijing will move to take Taiwan by force in the next decade, it could be interesting how a non-KMT politician will play out. A woman, no less, dealing with the very male CCP.

You are correct. Fargo has been (not to sound pretentious) a tour de force: the writing, acting, cinematography, directing, editing, production design, hell I will thrown in graphics and marketing if need be. What an incredible season.

Nothing for Fargo?

I thought her performance in Joy was one of her best yet. Better than Silver Linings by far. The movie wasn’t a fully realized work, but her performance was. I would’ve liked to have seen McCarthy or Tomlin take it home, though.

You know what else is important? Understanding language, rhetoric, reasoning, argument, logic, etc.

I am so sick of this bullshit prioritizing science and math over the humanities. People who can’t evaluate argument, recognize propaganda or understand history and sociology are much easier to manipulate, even if they…

So we all agree that he went out and had a copy made, right?

- Michael Pollan

See, I thought Jez was side-eyeing Mayim because, well, she is a little wacky about some parenting stuff and I can see where that taints her as a source if you’re trying to be snarky. I wasn’t thinking about it in terms of sex-skepticism.

I don’t watch BBT unless I’m too lazy to find something better when the reruns are on, but Mayim’s essay was pretty good. She basically says a)it’s creepy and sexist that people kept asking her if this fictional character who her fictional character had fictional sex with was “good” and b)the characters had fun, and…

Most of the commenters here have NO fucking idea what they are talking about.

For this to be perfectly historically ironic, we need a British group to swoop and steal the treasure from both of them.

I too have been intent on focusing my child on Grover, Cookie Monster, and Bert & Ernie. It’s paying off; we’re now working on Fraggle Rock.

Gorbachev, His arms open. Reagan and Gorbachev at Tanagra.

Shaka, when the Berlin Wall fell.