All I’m doing is presenting the facts. By all means, tell me what you think I got wrong. Be specific. You are spot on about one thing - Trump’s base cares 10 times more about pissing off libs and hurting people they don’t like than they do about advancing even their own best interests, let alone the interests of our…

Politics Corner - Cruel Intentions edition. There have been lots of worrying signs on the immigration front recently. The big headline was Trump canning Kirstjen Nielsen as DHS secretary. Reports say Trump was angry that she said he shouldn’t shut down the border or reinstate family separations, because both of those…

Kumail’s come a long way from the days of being bitter that Danny Pudi beat him out for Abed in Community. Pudi cameoed in Winter Soldier, now Kumail might be starring in The Eternals. Score one for Kumail.

“taking the pill is “the same thing as birthing a baby and leaving it out in the street,””

There are no depths of hypocrisy that Trump won’t sink to. I can see Trump trying to hit Biden over it. But it would only draw more attention to his own much worse behavior. His base won’t care, but his base alone isn’t enough to win re-election. It would backfire.

Politics Corner - Dueling Stories edition. One of these stories is much more important than the other. The other one got a thousand times more media coverage.

I wouldn’t snark on someone’s sincere enjoyment of something, but I DID snark on the real, small, but loud on the Internet phenomenon of people who think Snyder’s work has been sabotaged by some vast conspiracy.

Thanks! I’ll write something up for tonight. There are no shortage of worthy topics.

Damn, sick burn on Altered Beast out of nowhere. I loved that game when I was 6 or 7, so, given my reliably sophisticated tastes back then, it’s safe to say it’s still excellent. Sega to its best console - “Rise from your grave!”

I was receiving medical treatment for a while. I’ve just been back for a few days. I could bring it back, but I’m a bit nervous about just dropping it on WOT after being gone for a month. The main reason I felt comfortable putting it there was that it’s a relic of the old site, before Kinja, when lots of folks posted…

Yes. The outrage to Omar’s factually accurate remarks was also bullshit. Bibi Netanyahu and the boosters of his apartheid administration pretend that disagreeing with Bibi’s policies is anti-semitism, even though most American Jews agree with Omar, and there are a lot more actual antisemites on the right who support…

How do Snyder’s superfams account for the fact that the only DCU movies to be critically and/or popularly successful are the ones without his fingerprints on them? I know they think the critics are paid off, but do they think audiences just aren’t sophisticated enough to appreciate the genius of his humorless, dour,…

I am sure the folks who willfully misinterpreted his initial comments, who are addicted to outrage, will receive this sensitive and insightful statement with the nuance, empathy, and enlightenment that is their trademark.

Bojack Whatsman?

I couldn’t tell if you were kidding or not, so I had to google it. Good for them! Them being the royals. Big Suze is quite a get for them.

I think the better comparison is Jon Hamm. Totally captivating in drama, then you see them in a comedy and somehow they’re even better.

I first got to know her as Sophie in Peep Show. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, and she is amazing in it. It’s on Hulu. The only reasons it hasn’t been the international hit it should be are the name, which is bad, and the unique style, which is very good, but jarring in the first couple of episodes.

“I get why Brian May and Roger Taylor continue to use the Queen name, but to me it’d be like if Paul and Ringo went out and toured as The Beatles.”

Your comment initially said ‘that was not Queen’. That’s what I disagreed with. I don’t disagree with the edited version. Yes, that was Queen with Adam Lambert. Yes, there is no replacement for Freddie Mercury. I just wanted to credit the surviving members of Queen for their contributions. It’s not like a glorified…

It’s hard to argue that Queen has been creatively vital after losing Mercury. I just want to point out that I was responding to a post that emphatically stated that was ‘not Queen’, edited afterwards to say it was ‘Queen w Adam Lambert.’ If that had been the initial comment, I wouldn’t have even responded.