I recently found out that (if the family tree I found online can be believed) I’m descended from the Aztec emperors and I’ve known for a long time that I have ancestors who were various kings and queens of Europe. I’ll admit to feeling a little bit of a thrill at finding a relation to an important historical figure,…

The Black Pride movement of the sixties focused on a lot of African history that hasn’t got much connection with African Americans, like ancient Egypt, which mostly wouldn’t be demographically black, or East Africa, where almost none of the slaves brought to the Americas would be from. But Egypt was a powerful and…

It’s nuts that, “The police and prosecutors never screw up” is such an important part of conservative thought. I mean, whether Steven Avery is guilty or innocent shouldn’t be a left or right opinion, but Owens aims to make it one. Some people want literally everything to be either a Republican position or a Democratic…

A lot of the tendencies of Afrocentric history really bug me. I can completely understand why a group that has always been told “You are a group of savages, with basically no culture,” will come back with, “We come from cultures just as sophisticated as any other, with their own histories,” but I wish there wasn’t so…

If, 2500 years from now, when (hopefully) the concept of race isn’t thought of the same way as it is now, some form of popular entertainment concerning MLK or Malcolm X features actors whose skin tone doesn’t match the real people’s, I wouldn’t see much reason for objection. It all depends on how race is seen by that…

I was going to say Jack Paar, but I like this one better.

I’m totally shocked at this revelation. I had no idea the Tennessee legislature had a sexual harassment policy. 

I don’t use Twitter either, but I think that anyone who pays the eight bucks a month is automatically considered verified. 

I could understand if it was, “We’ll go through the process of verifying that you are who you say you are in exchange for a one-time payment of eight dollars,” but not, “Give us eight dollars a month and we’ll agree that you are who you say you are.”

When Criterion was on Hulu I found that, as good as most of the movies probably are, I was rarely in the mood for a 4 hour Japanese movie about death or whatever. My sweet spot is more or less mainstream American movies from like the 30's to the 50's. I might give the Criterion channel a try anyway. There’s plenty of…

It was kind of a rhetorical question.

Why is this a fucking video?

Yeah, I spent a good chunk of time yesterday trying to figure out what I wanted to see the most, balanced with what I think is going to be the hardest to find elsewhere.

Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff that I was subscribing to this for is also hard to pirate. A lot of older movies aren’t even easy to find illegally. 

Just pared mine down to 135. I got rid of movies that I frequently see are streaming somewhere, a few things I don’t want to see all that much, and a couple that I’ve managed to see elsewhere since I put them on my queue. Trying to maximize my last five months of DVDs. Now my one question is, will I be charged…

Spylebrities?

I’m guessing the sport in question is cricket?

I like how in America, “Asian” means people of East Asian descent, and if you’re talking about anyone from elsewhere in Asia you need to be more specific, but in the UK “Asian” means people of South Asian descent, and if you’re talking about people from anywhere else you need to be more specific. 

You’ve got his first name spelled wrong in the headline, correctly in the subhead, and incorrectly in the article. At least try a little bit.

It’s weird to see things that I was too old for in the first place being rebooted for a new generation.