J.J. Abrams, a guy with his own particular style

You fools, this is all just part of a brilliant strategy to keep his reflex defenders on their toes.

I think there’s a pretty substantial legal caveat that very clearly states that consent as it applies to children has to meet a different standard. Children might agree to do any number of things in an attempt to please people they see as in a power position, which for children is pretty much all adults, and their…

“If you can conceive it, you can believe it!”

I think what you’re “not getting” is that people these days hate it when broader perspective is addressed. And it does not matter how it’s introduced- how respectful or deferential your language is or how much qualifying commentary is applied to it- it interferes with frothy Outrage! and should only be met with…

Bullshit false equivalences crafted around conflating burdensome regulations with any principled approach by government toward fair practice in business. The prevailing message of the FCC and Mr. Cruz seems to be that the government should never be in a position to tell corporations how they are allowed to behave.…

These are great men doing important work, just like 10 year-old me when I would play video games and put A-S-S as my initials when I got a high score, taking the culture back for A-S-Ses like myself.

I think we have an example here of taking a really bad road to get to the right place. For all the people who have been skeeved on by Kevin Spacey, you have my sympathy. But at least it got us to a place where an 80 year-old actor is playing the role of an 80 year-old man, rather than a 60 year-old man slathered in an…

If you want to see an excellent take on this material, watch Seconds. Over 50 years old, but it holds up beautifully.

She just needs to learn to go with the flow... of blood from her face.

I know, right? What an asshole for getting annoyed when strangers restrain you for some obscure reason that they refuse to clearly elucidate and then force you into their vehicle. I mean, he’s clearly “drunk” what with all the completely unreasonable assertions that he’s due an explanation of their probable cause.…

Fixed that for you.

I doubt he did, seeing as the word ‘spurious’ was not used in this story, not used in the story this was linked from, and as far as I could hear (the audio is fairly weak) not once spoken in this YouTube clip. I’m not sure who’s being quoted in this headline; possibly a co-worker when the author of this piece asked…

This is from the Entertainment Weekly review of In Good Company (which was indeed a widely released motion picture from 12 years ago):

...asked why Netflix wasn’t taking the allegations from Masterson’s accusers seriously... he responded, “we don’t believe them.”

He also claims he’s suffering from “post-traumatic stress disorder” due to tensions on the Bohemian Rhapsody set...

I am Outraged! at your casual dismissal of my Outrage! over this Outrageous! assault on... (what was it again? Scrolling up... scanning... must have missed it, scanning again...) Mexican culture, I guess, somehow?

...such a seemingly willful misreading...

I know, it’s almost as if people might think a solitary person could be inclined to lie about something for uniquely individual reasons, and that the corroboration of other people experiencing a pattern of similar behaviors might lend evidentiary credibility.

It sounds like I’m being told I’m supposed to dismiss the people bringing context to their arguments in favor of people who are ignoring or dismissing it, once again, “because I said so,” and I’m doing that based solely on racial assignation. Besides, I guarantee you there are also numerous Native Americans who have…