I saw on some anti-Scientology blog that he donated to Scientology causes into the ‘90s, but obviously that’s not exactly an unbiased source. I’m glad he didn’t pass the religion down to his kids, anyhow.

The fact a kid is involved is really lessening the schadenfreude here. But I have to admit, I’m dying to know why he went to the UK instead of riding out the pandemic in NZ. It’s hard to imagine what could be so urgent/difficult that moving across town wouldn’t work as a short-term solution.

Because Amanda wanted us all to know that not only had she bagged the Goth girl dream boyfriend, but she was fucking around with other people on the side. So she talked about it a lot.

Are they Scientologists? I know his family was and he really doesn’t like talking about it. (Probably because talking about it = getting the cult breathing down his neck.)

It’s all about the clicks, baby. Most in the media are pretty personally privileged, so a second Trump term would basically be an annoyance that would be great for the bottom line.

You can take something seriously and still come to the conclusion it’s likely untrue. 

I’m sorry, but that argument is at best narcissistic and at worst deluded. Biden isn’t going to interpret “religious liberty” in ways that allow discrimination against women and LGBT people. He isn’t going to try to remove every environmental regulation known to man. He isn’t going to lend federal backing to GOP…

At least two of the witnesses were coached before coming forward — her brother by reporter Nathan Robinson, and the neighbor by Reade herself. It sounds like without those interventions, all they would have been able to say would have been that Reade told them she had felt objectified/harassed. (Which, let’s be…

The cynic in me wants to ask how many things he “can’t” do we’ve seen him do so far.

I hope you’re right! 

Sure, but if there wasn’t an election in November, that’s a moot point.

Unfortunately, her term, like those of all Representatives, is also up on January 20 unless House elections went ahead. So technically, we wouldn’t have a House of Representatives at all. (Seems like it might be a problem.)

I have mixed feelings about voting. I understand that any social contact is a risk, but I’m also terrified of setting a precedent that would allow Trump to postpone the presidential election. (And yes, I know that theoretically that would make either Nancy Pelosi or Patrick Leahy president come January, depending on…

At the time, sure. The fact somebody’s fame later diminished doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. Alan Alda isn’t even billed on the poster for Marriage Story and he was the lead in one of the most-watched sitcom of all time.

I remember This Boy’s Life and Basketball Diaries both being pretty prominent movies. (This Boy’s Life because DeNiro was in it, Basketball Diaries because any movie with teenagers, sex and drugs is bound to kick up a fuss.) Not blockbusters by any means, but movies most people who cared about entertainment were at…

Yeah, the TV shows are pretty standard early-career filler. Not that they weren’t good gigs for a teenager, but they aren’t where most people recognized him from even in the ‘90s.

I would love to see the financials from Harris’s campaign. She shouldn’t have had to drop out so soon, and I suspect somebody was not being very good with money. 

I don’t think the “sitting it out in hopes of getting better candidates next time” thing has EVER worked. What it effectively does is a)communicate that you don’t care and b)help give a candidate you don’t like a larger win.If you protest-vote for Warren or whoever, at least it helps detract from the size of…

You don’t see why anybody would be a moderate but feel it’s time for a female president? Basically she took over what should have been Harris’s spot.

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