Why get rid of the bus? Just start charging people the full cost of these search and rescues and most of the tourism will dry up.

It’s more that the British Empire was relatively light-touch, and didn’t give too many shits what the locals did as long as they paid taxes and participated in the various one-sided trade monopolies.

How do you imagine people have lived ever since they have become sedentary? Tightly packed villages, no less dense than the major cities people live in now. Non-agrarian societies centered around pastorialism and/or hunting? Tightly-packed camps that are easy to defend. Humanity is defined by our proximity to other…

Well that’s the thing. They aren’t just positing that he ate a poison plant because he didn’t know. They’re effectively saying that he ate a plant that no one knew was poisonous, or that no one knew was the plant in question. IIRC the idea with the seeds started from “well if he couldn’t be poisoned by the seeds…

Nichols gets away with it because he mercilessly critiques Braddock’s behavior as the film progresses. While Henry and Nichols are initially sympathetic toward Braddock at the beginning of the film they are unsparing in making him thoroughly unsympathetic until they utterly destroy any illusion that Braddock has “won”…

I used to really like his films also. I bought the 20th anniversary box set of all of his movies on Blu-ray.  But something clicked in the theater while watching Hateful Eight that I felt like I had enough of his whole thing.

Why waste his time? His positives will still hover around 40% even if Epstein gave up irrefutable proof including video and DNA evidence implicating Trump. Wouldn’t hurt him a bit. This is reality now.

revs up the salivary glands to aid digestion!

You love the World Cup so much that you endlessly bitch about CORRECT calls being made with technology.

I’m glad finally someone on our side is refusing to pretend that this is a normal administration in which we can debate it in a purely political context. As far as I’m concerned, the Trump administration is little more than a hate-cult.

This is an interesting comment, as I think anyone who has ever taken an art history course will tell you that art criticism necessarily involves discussion of the context in which the art was made and its relationship to the present day. It’s almost as if you have no idea what you’re talking about and are completely…

It’s shocking I know, but there seem to have been many flaws in his stereo-typically overly complex supervillain plan.

Mindy Kaling (and possibly her whole family based on her and her brother) is that version of a person of color who thinks they are unique.

Molly gets the job, not because she’s talented, but because she’s there.

kaling’s humor doesnt appeal to me. I feel like, beneath it all, she’s often apologising for being a dark woman. 

Heck, I refuse to call the first Star Wars film anything but Star Wars.  Get out of here with your New Hope.  

Notice how Dowd quotes mutant problems equitable with adolescence, instead of you know, US-brand racism? Marvel writers spent years trying to blend the puberty and racism threads, while Fox boxes in the racism parts, but expects the fans to buy in to the mutant fear while barely addressing the hard parts.

Even without the cash cow mentality of the comics industry to ruin things, does the Dark Phoenix storyline even really hold up all these years later?

Even if Dowd and most other critics (and the public at large) find this comic book movie very mediocre, fear not. Hollywood never lets mistakes like this happen a second time.

At least you are honest about being the world's most shameless starfucker.