This is correct, thank you for the correction. GOP also control 53 Senate seats, not 54. Accuracy is very important to me, but Kinja has a very narrow edit window. Always appreciate someone as devoted to facts as I am.

So, on the one hand, keeping the show’s romantic ‘will they, will they again, will anybody remember, Jeremy Bearimy’ pairing apart is like sitcom 101, but on the other hand, this was great and hilarious and heartbreaking and a legitimately new way to do that old thing. I loved it.

The only person happy about this is Turkey’s dictator Erdogan. I can almost hear him. ‘Soon...’

Politics Corner - Scoreboard. Open the Government with a Clean CR - 52 votes in the Senate with reports that many more Republicans are reaching the breaking point. All Dems and 6 GOP are voting yes for a no wall solution. Trump’s bullshit ‘compromise’, 50 votes. The GOP has 54 Senate seats. No Dems defected, because…

Vampire/2 + Spider-man - Spider-man + Jared Leto = skeptical. I was a 90’s comic kid who loved Spider-Man, and as a result, I would like this movie to be good. It’s not impossible to imagine a good Morbius movie, and adding Matt Smith doesn’t hurt. The whole ‘no Spider-Man, yes Jared Leto’ thing makes me less than…

Max Power! And it comes with a song!

Politics Corner - So Many Stories - edition. But I had to pick one. So I went with Trump’s extremely recent Chief of Staff signing a letter calling on him to reopen DHS, wall or no wall, along with all the other living former DHS secretaries, which is all of them. Chertoff is neither living or dead. DHS was formed…

Is that you, Uncle Ju?

Trump sure as he’ll didn’t back the FIRST STEP Act out of the kindness of his heart. A lot of conservative megadonors like the folks in the Koch brothers’ network have started to realize that ruining million of lives by locking people up in a broken system with overlong sentences that encourage recidivism is too expens…

Fun fact - I ALSO discovered my seemingly-healthy dad dead a few years prior in 20o9, fairly young, from inexplicable heart failure. He was 56 and went to the gym 5 days a week, and then, out of nowhere, gone. Wait, that’s not fun. But it is a fact.

He really does capture the look of ‘young Tony Soprano.’ I’m deferring to David Chase on this. I hope this movie is as great as the TV series he created.

I agree it is unlikely Malek had heard nothing of the rumors. He was signed first. He helped push Singer out. And now he’s (probably) shading the truth by saying he didn’t know about the accusations earlier because he didn’t know the details (probably), but probably staying within the bounds of being diplomatic and…

Nah, really? How so? In the exact way I acknowledged assuming Malek had no awareness of the Singer accusations was naive? In which case, thank you for agreeing with me. If you’re referring to a different naivete, I’m listening. Let’s hear it.

This is pure speculation, but given the reports Malek helped push him out, my guess is he heard about Singer’s ‘issues’, that wasn’t enough to get him to bail on a breakthrough role he signed onto before Singer, then there was Singer’s blatant unprofessionalism on set, and Malek joined a coup to get rid of Singer. And…

I don’t know if I’m being naive, but I’m gonna give Malek the benefit of the doubt he’s being honest, here. Not everybody spends their time on pop culture blogs, and while this was an open secret in Hollywood, Malek wasn’t that plugged into the film scene before this, and the more I type the more I think I’m being…

I actually agree with the thrust of your comment. I never would have written about the initial controversy, but the backlash to the outrage and how quickly media bent over backwards to cater to these rich white kids, despite the fact 1) their actions were bad and 2) the context was already publicly available from the…

Politics Corner - What’s Wrong With Blackface? Edition. There’s right wing backlash to the backlash against those Covington Prep assholes that mocked the Native elder/Vietnam vet. The videos exist. Nothing contradicts Elder Phillips’ account that he tried to defuse a confrontation between the Covington students and a…

You’ve totally backed away from your ‘either side can end the shutdown’ argument, but I’ll bite. The shutdown is creating havoc for the 800,000 workers not getting paid and will soon create more misery for the people who depend on those services, as emergency measures can no longer paper over the lapses in funding.

I will point out as a student who went to a Catholic university and has complicated feelings towards the RCC that they ALSO did the inquisition. In addition to the... other... stuff. And still, if I were aligning myself with a branch of organized Christianity, I’d go back to Catholicism which has made real efforts to…

Yes, that’s the foundation of my comment. I’m not disagreeing with Gaga. I’m just elaborating on the state of American evangelicalism and the religious right.