Yes, and in my (admittedly hazy) recollection, the age difference in the book is not so .. emphasized? But the casting of Armie “popped out the womb looking 35 years old” Hammer, especially across from Chalamet, really changed that.

Other than the fact that the smell of weed smoke goes away like 10x faster than the smell of cigg smoke, sure.

I didn’t take it as “mentoring”.. they hung out, but I never got the sense that Oliver was there to “teach” Elio anything. It was a messy situation and I think it was presented as such.

Oh I LOVED An Education! I haven’t seen CMBYN yet but plan to. An Education took a dark look on the reality of a may December romance. From the woman’s perspective. Versus a woody Allen where it’s the man. It’s a coming of age movie I very much identify with.

Movies aren’t meant to be after-school specials with a positive and healthy message. Great movies can be about fucked up shit like an unhealthy relationship between people with too much of an age difference. Which is exactly what An Education was. It didn’t glorify anything because from the beginning you know it’s…

progressive demographic

Did Megyn and her show pull this stunt on their own or did NBC give their okay in the hopes to build up buzz for Megyn’s flop hour?

“By the way, she still says she is not proud of America.”

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

Just here for the comments:

Yes, there is. Someone with barely any policy knowledge does NOT belong in the Senate. You don’t like Cardin? That’s fine. Find a qualified candidate not a bloody conspiracy monger.

Because we are grown up people who have voted in elections before. To paraphrase Loudon Wainwright, politicians are people and that’s all they can be. No politician is going to agree with you 100% of the time. It’s best to go 80/20 with say 5 ride or die issues. My ride or die issues are Abortion, The ERA,…

Because she has no actual interest in the people of Maryland?

I’m well aware that Ben Cardin has a shitty record when it comes to Israel and the surveillance state. The man also authored bills to increase child support and to provide more assistance to foster children in addition to authoring a bill to expand medicare. He’s well regarded by the NAACP, has an F rating by the NRA,…

Which also makes me cock my head like an intrigued beagle every time I hear someone breathlessly declare that every member of our military is a fine, best-of-the-best individual who joined because of a deep patriotic love of the USA. Truth is, there are a lot of folks whom I personally know who enlisted because of a)…

Yes. Manning is not Edward Snowden. It is astounding how many people don’t grasp this. If you haven’t read the wikipedia article on Manning, I recommend that you do because it provides a great intro to her biography. She was neglected so much as a child. Her mother was an alcoholic. She may have suffered fetal alcohol…

I heard her on some NPR show that had her as a guest and I was surprised at how little command over the issues she had (little facts, all emotion). She also got aggressive with the interviewer several times over common questions. She doesn’t have the temperament or breadth of knowledge to be a Senator.

Yes. Do you?

Eh, Chelsea’s running to the left of Bernie Sanders on a similar anti-”establishment” and he could only get 34% of the vote. From that one needs to subtract solid dems that were only voting for Sanders as an alternative to Clinton. She’s running a campaign for rose twitter, not one for the voting public in Maryland.…

Hope she lives a life that she can be proud of, but this is stupid. If anything else, the diplomatic cables she leaked were a clear case of Assange taking advantage of someone in a fragile state and getting her to dump everything she could possibly find.