People were worked up about this back then. Obama faced persistent criticism for doing right-wing immigration policies in general, and specifically for having a harsh response to increased family migration from Central America (which is when his administration put kids in cages).

It didn’t get as much play in the…

I don’t think this is a good read on the conversation between Nancy/Ibis/Bilquis. For one thing, I don’t think it makes sense to say that it’s “disingenuous” for it to only be a conversation between black people. I think that’s a deliberate choice they made in order to highlight the issue with racism. The black people…

I think it’s Thor. Because A. Shadow can think about precipitation really hard and it happens and B. when he’s getting angry on the train (right before Laura busts in), it starts thundering. Total Thor moves.

I’m like a biscotti.  People think I’m this sweet cookie, but I’m really this super hard thing that nobody knows what I am or why I am!

The problem with subsidized cab rides is, they don’t just compete with terrible cab companies, they also compete with public transit, which is a social and environmental public good that’s being undercut by Uber/Lyft.

As an example, I live in Vegas, where the regular bus system (used by poor people to get to work) has…

This exclusive first look at The Banks, tentatively scheduled for a July release, immediately establishes a compelling conflict as Celia Banks, an investment banker, refuses to join her mother and grandmother in their life of crime.

Free college for all, as in New York State where Andrew Cuomo already did this, requires the Governor of that state to sign it. None of the GOP governors will ever sign it. The representation is fraudulent.

No, in Nevada “indecent exposure” extends to “making someone else indecently expose themselves”.

Fun fact: one of her lawyers is David Roger, who used to be the district attorney in Vegas.  That’s right, he literally went from being the DA to being the police union lawyer.

No, there are (or I mean, were) lots of other Odins. At the end of the book, Shadow is backpacking around Iceland and meets the local one. And the gods are limited in their influence to whatever their “homeland” is, because they’re a reflection of the people in that homeland. That’s why they’re “American” gods.  They…

Also Katie Rice is one of the main storyboard people for that show.

Its setting, however, remains unusually rich. The period during which Germany was divided by the Allies into four zones, each controlled by a different country, has inspired some classic movies, including Roberto Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero, Lars von Trier’s Zentropa and, more recently, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix

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…