Point of nuance: Our society and the Republican Party and America writ large was already infected.
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No “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” no peace.
Too often we dismiss this kind of stuff as the result of mental illness, but at its core this extremist, pro-US Soccer messaging is domestic terrorism.
I think it’s even worse than that. The way these stories get written, it’s almost like the media just accepts that voter suppression is just another perfectly valid tactic a party can use to win an election.
So rather than trying to deny it happens (impossible) voter suppression instead gets reframed as something like:…
In fairness, with over fifty years of sheer content, it’s almost as hard not to do those kind of little callbacks. The weight of its own history is heavy indeed with Doctor Who.
Something like Venusian Aikido (which we also saw in “World Enough and Time” just a few episodes ago!) is one thing, having to bring back an old, old character with a ton of backstory baggage to unpack is another...
Then what does the Hogwarts Express run on, Rowling? Burning house elves? Oh my god, is it burning house elves?
I would vote for President Buffy. As long as she had a cool axe and some stakes.
Not to get too far into politics, but this double episode was the perfect antidote to the other stuff I was watching on TV earlier in the evening--intelligent, funny, and relentlessly optimistic about the ability of flawed humans (and demons) to make themselves better.
I do not understand this fetishization of promotion/relegation. It is not the reason America sucks at soccer, nor is it the reason MLS underachieves. The NBA is one of many basketball leagues in the world, yet it has no promotion/relegation and America is the best nation in the world at basketball, and the NBA is the…
“Ronan Farrow has a new article” is this generation’s “Omar comin’.”
We made it. Did we make it? Oh shit. I don’t think we did.
It’s like when they tried to change Harry’s hearing location/time at the last minute to get Dumbledore to not be able to show up.
No Presidency for Old Men please. I seriously think we need to look at a mandatory retirement age for Congress as well. It is insane that while normal people retire at 65, Congress people stay in office until death do they part. Feinstein, Grassley and Hatch are perfect examples of people who should have bowed out…
Obligatory Snubs Post:
PHOENIX—Saying the breakthrough would change baseball statistics forever, the Society Of American Baseball Research…
We got the Nazi! Good job, team! Your work is done. Richard Spencer is outta here! Good ridd — huh? What’s that? This isn’t Richard Spencer? Are you sure? So it was Tom Metzger? No? Jack Pieceofshitwhatshisname? Jason Kessler? That Baked Alaska fuck? No, no, no?
How do you solve a problem like Maria’s curveball?
Foltynewicz should hit Mattingly.
Goddammit universe, you win! You’ve presented a reality in which I side with SmashMouth in a dispute. Happy now?