one who’d like to preserve the perception of themselves as brave truth-tellers, but would prefer not actually having to engage in any of that risky truth-telling business.

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”

I’m generally OK with fast-casual restaurants. I couldn’t begin to count the number of visits I made with co-workers to Applebee’s and TGI Friday’s and The Elephant Bar for cheap drinks and appetizers-turned-meals after work, and my best friend from high school specifically worked for an Olive Garden, so I do have a…

Congratulations, Bianca!

It’s been a long road getting from there to here. 

Green screen effect? The actors were all present and it was on location.  

Counterpoint: NDT has taught me many things, and Jack Crosbie has not enriched my life in literally any conceivable way.

ya’ll might be interested in this gem as well then haha

While I see what you’re saying, this is far too good of an opportunity to pass up. I think it’s actually showing that “excellence” is a myth, because even AFTER achieving so much, they are STILL refused pay. If anything, using this as an example quells the stupid idea that somehow it’s all a meritocracy and women just…

If there is one thing conservatives understand and respect, it is the well-considered opinions of academic elites and other experts. Your average conservative is strong-willed and opinionated, sure, but they would never persist in clinging to a particular belief in opposition to well-credentialed scholars. I can’t…

A bear in the closet. And during pride month?!?!

citation needed

Calling Black Widow’s death a fridging is BS. She sacrificed herself for the greater good. She wasn’t killed to provide motivation to a male character. Fridging is a serious issue, don’t trivialize it with this sort of crap.

Avengers: Age of Ultron introduced the deeply troubling, reductive idea that Black Widow saw herself as a monster because of the Red Room procedure that rendered her sterile (though some debate this).

I’m inclined to think that he felt it move when he tugged, and then decided he wasn’t worthy by himself. That’s just how I read the scene, though.

I didn’t know how badly I NEEDED to see that final half hour until I was watching it. Seeing Giant Man punch a space whale!?! That was incredible.

There were so many moments in the final half hour in particular where I just kept saying to myself “I can’t believe I’m seeing this on a cinema screen”. Action, character combinations, plot elements... not only was I seeing them, but they’re in what will probably end up being the highest-grossing film ever.

Your salad was trucked in from California too.

New Who’s inconstancy makes it real hard to give it a great 3 episode run. I can’t settle on Utopia because part 2 fumbles the setup so badly. It’s like half a story. While I agree with you that Blink and Human Nature / Family of Blood they are bookended by junk.

I’d go Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead,…

‘Winter Soldier’ was the film where Nat really became a character and not just “the sexy female one”. You get to see how she approaches her work, which is not always morally comfortable, but also how she is as a person, in the way she relates to Cap as a friend. Plus Johansson and Evans’ entirely platonic chemistry is…