I like how Spike Jonze went from pretty much defining the ironic music video in the '90s to making "Her", which may be the least ironic movie I've ever seen.

Behold, the MRA's update of the "aliens built the pyramids" theory.

He had a great small part in "Moneyball" too as the sensitive new-age husband of Billy Beane's ex.

I like both of them, and think female artists get a ton more shit thrown at them. "Lost in Translation" is a great fucking movie, even if the rest of her output since then has been sort of "meh". That's usually enough for most male directors to get something like a lifetime pass.

Hmm, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was standard operating procedure back then to have one policeman coordinating an investigation between York and London, and another plainsclothes detective to just hang around all day, every day, seeing who stops by, just in case someone overheard something.

Not saying that they were not racist. Just saying that the main engine of the resentment and bigotry among whites is economic.

For sure. It's fucking difficult to talk about this shit because whites haven't suffered nearly to the same degree, but it's a big part of the current racial climate of the US.

The bed's already been shat, but part of me thinks if late capitalism didn't obliterate the kind of communities that had a relatively benign white ethnic identity we wouldn't be dealing with white people's cartoonishly racist Facebook comments, resentment politics, and bootlicking the rich.

Haha. My job is to work on the Evil Eyeball. Though I think we prefer to think of it as "alluring."

My favorite part is that there's a guy (and it's gotta be a guy) who is paid to handle things like emailing, "Tom. Is. Out." to his boss's old friends.

This one is a meteor game for sure.

I'm sure the guy who had vivid and specific fantasies about justifiably killing anyone who crossed him was super careful in verifying that his 160-255 targets were enemy combatants before killing them while he was on active duty.

He was also a compulsive liar whose stories had not a little bit of racist overtones.

"Sing Me Spanish Techno" would like a word.

Uh, what? That's Adnan's entire timeline. School, library, track practice, Jay picks him up, they drive to Cathy's, he drops off Jay, Mosque, home. I did make one mistake: I should have said, "he dropped off Jay, then went to Mosque, and went home."

My wife and I have been joking all season that Mei has two faces. 80% of the time: "no, bitches." When she smiles, "yes, bitches." So her admitting she has a perma bitch-face was pretty great.

I love Vespertine, but finding out that everything erotic about it was specifically about her life with Mathew Barney was kind of a huge bummer. That may be because the Cremaster movies made me despise him.

Solid point. That was weird. Maybe it was stupid teen shenanigans taken a step or three too far. It's a lot more disturbing if that was coming from somewhere deeper.

The Intercept: fearlessly giving government officials the benefit of the doubt, and a platform to bolster official positions without scrutiny or criticism.

Right. I think it's pretty important that "the jealous boyfriend is the first thing investigators look at because it's so common in these types of cases". I don't think the detectives did any one thing that got them off the rails, but a combination of things related to this. They expected to see a jealous boyfriend,…