People discuss Star Wars, and also people die? Is that what perspective means to you? Do the truth of life and death invade all of your attempts at participating in society? If so, that’s not perspective, and that’s not normal. You should seriously think about seeing a professional if you can’t compartmentalize…

I personally know someone who died the other day, whose husband didn’t even get to say goodbye on an iPad, and yet here you are judging other people’s Star Wars opinions. Just pointing out how fucking petty and small and in need of a dose of perspective you are. And fuck you.

Yeah, how dare people not wallow in the unrelenting spectre of death at all times and have the gall to think about things that are not the frailty of our mortality?

The new trilogy was disappointing but it had nothing to do with the cast IMO. The new cast was by and large good, they just got real shit material to work with. And it does suck that some of them got severely harassed because people didn’t like aspects of movies that they had nothing to do with. 

The problem with the new trilogy is that each film is a craven apology for the preceding installment. Rather than desperately trying to course correct midflight, they should have sat down and sketched out a three-film epilogue to the story told in the six previous movies (because even the prequels, god help them,…

I’m sorry for your acquaintance’s loss, but... how is that relevant to anything they said?

Are we gonna pretend we don’t know what’s happened?

Gee, maybe some of “the love” went away when Disney decided what we all wanted was a slapdash sequel trilogy that made our childhood heroes miserable failures, cowards, and parents of a school shooter? And then totally undercut the finale of the original films by having Palpatine survive (more or less, clone,…

Hell, The Last Jedi was one of the best things to happen to this series in decades and people are still arguing about how it was actually bad.

Keef has my favorite take on the subject:

Oh go fuck yourself. Like that segment of the fanbase is so much worse than the oil execs and bros populating Houston’s stadium. Lot of fans in the DC area and a lot of good people.

It comes from the Boston school of thought where if every single citizen's life isn't so miserable that the only joy they derive is when a local team does something good, then it is a bad sports town.

Good god, number 3 all day long. You can’t send Matt Gaetz to DC and then blame DC for Matt Gaetz. We didn’t want him here, you did. He’s YOUR melanoma.

You can disagree with people politically, but this is a horrible take. George Will (and his son Jon, who has Down syndrome) have been going to Nats games since day 1. Luke Russert inherited season tickets from his dad who died in 2008. As much as you might wish it to be so, these people are not bandwagon fans.

Your trademark Baltimore Inferiority Complex is showing

Some thoughts:

Reading this column made me depressed. Not because of the subject matter, but because you just sound like a miserable person. Maybe take a break from sports and politics and go find something that makes you happy.

Fuck this. My boss is an actual Nationals fan. Grew up in northern Virginia, jumped on board when they moved into town. And he’s actually one of those nice bosses (I know that’s rare these days).

Jesus Christ, can we at least wait until the Nationals actually win before starting in on this bullshit?

‘How the Irish became White’ is pretty specious scholarship, but this article is great overall.