Oh, he’s very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads—they all adore him.

It’s not from “stalker-fan,” that’s a false etymology. It’s from “Stan”, an Eminem song about an obsessed fan.

It doesn’t matter, Trish is still her sister and sisters still help you kill your parent.

I was not aware that any of this existed, and it was a really interesting article!

Roberto got divorced and his wife got half of the restaurants.  So half of them are still Roberto’s, and the other half were sold off and have various names.

That’s pretty unfair, don’t you think?  I doubt Robert Irwin has ever sold weapons to dictators or pushed for expanded fossil fuel development.

but I’m not certain what period piece movies are supposed to do about good, or evolving, white people in times of systemic racism. The best of the white savior movies have the black character transforming the white character in ways that move beyond, “I’m less racist now.” In that sense I think Green Book qualifies.

If you don’t think it was the best movie released in 2018 that’s fine, but it is thoroughly serviceable and has a message that is at least attempting to be positive. The white character is depicted as a racist ass for most of the movie but eventually he learns to accept others despite his ignorant and bigoted…

Game wardens are like Grey Wardens, they have to infect themselves in order to sense their enemy.

Cyndi Lauper didn’t murder anyone (that we know of), it was Lillian, who accidentally killed a Russian prostitute back in the episode where she was disposing of Artie’s ashes.  Lauper just fled from the police after being framed.

I would counter that “everyone doing weird things while spinning their wheels plotwise” is pretty typical for both this show and Tina Fey shows in general, and is not necessarily a problem. The problem for me was that Fey stepped away from being as actively involved in Seasons 3 and 4, which meant that the show was a…

If it’s set in Chicago, then obviously Norm should be a regular character???!

I’m not sure whether I’m missing the joke or not, but there actually was a spin-off called The Tortellis. It was about Nick and Loretta living in Las Vegas, and it lasted one season before getting cancelled.

This lady sounds pretty great, it’s too bad she’s working for a total empty suit like Castro.  I hope she runs for something herself after this!

But I think many socialists would also describe socialism in contractual terms.  It’s just happening at the level of the entire society (a social contract) rather than the level of one person.  Under socialism, people would agree to give up their rights to do certain things (like get obscenely wealthy or privately own…

The worst thing about Nestle is, in the 1970s and 1980s, they spent a lot of money in developing countries, pushing public health agencies, hospitals, and new mothers to stop breastfeeding and start using formula (which was made by Nestle). This led to millions of deaths from malnutrition (because the formula was…

Luke Cage is great, and has multiple good performances by women of color (one of which, Alfre Woodard, is possibly one of the all-time great supervillain performances). Also, Iron Fist is... not great, but the best part of it is the multiple good performances by women of color.

Apparently, despite telling people he’s from Atlanta and being a visible part of the city’s rap community (he appeared just last week alongside T.I., Migos, and Ludacris at a pre-Super Bowl event), 21 Savage is actually from the United Kingdom.

Man, has any major director been coasting of a single triumph for longer than Marshall? Chicago is pretty good, but that is basically his only film that’s worth revisiting. The fact that he’s still getting to direct musicals on account of that, despite the subsequent ones being adequate at best (and with most of their…