You can, however, make sure your nephew asks before spoiling stuff for people. Tell him it’s the polite thing to do, but also some people go absolutely insane when they even think they might have been spoiled. If you need to show him proof, I can point you to several hundred io9 comments sections.

I tried. I had high hopes, because Year Zero was such an unexpected delight. So I honestly tried. But I couldn’t get through it.

All due respect to Tilda Swinton’s experience, but I know someone for whom boarding school was a life-saver. Someone who went to boarding school with other girls for whom boarding school was also a welcome solution to a terrible problem at home.

“It’s a good theory, but in addition to the climate science, Collareta’s team has collected some empirical evidence.” 

I’m not worried about Trump not conceding - a big chunk of the country has already been brainwashed into believing that there’s widespread voter fraud and that the election is fixed. Whether Trump concedes or not isn’t going to change that.

nicely dry red (cherries and leather and tannins oh my!)

A cultural shift would equalize salaries, too.

Best piece of driving advice I ever got was from watching a friend’s father instruct his daughter from the passenger seat: “You hear that siren? I want you to get out of the way as if your mother is in that ambulance.”

You don’t think that it’s amazing that everyone moved? The rope, or whatever it was, just guided people to the side of the parting crowd they needed to be on. The miracle was that no one decided that they were too busy, or too important to actually move.

We have no real indication what Trump would do as president.

Does Hillary have any true supporters, or is she just a refuge for those with no other options?

The theme song at the beginning of All in the Family captures this nostalgia quite well.

You call that a dumphone? Ha!

I’ll admit, I enjoyed The Untouchables — it’s a good enough movie, if you don’t care about historical accuracy, which it mangles beyond recognition (especially with regard to Frank Nitti), or honor, which the “hero” abandons in the climax in order to make the lizard brains of the audience feel good.

Ahem...heffalumps.

a cultural shift where men are expected to take as much days off to care for children as women.

And yet the end result of the turmoil of the 1960s wasn’t the rise of a fascist government.

Late to the party, but I needed to say: Ripley is the quintessential exemplar of a badass female character made powerful not in spite of her gender but because of it. She is modern pop culture’s first and greatest example of a woman’s unrestrained ferocity in defense of children and the child-like. That includes not…

The way Alien 3 ruins the finale of Aliens.

Nah. The president is the one who stands stands in front of cheering crowds and rallies good will and approval for what (s)he wants to happen.