My own opinion, but I don’t think that anyone is actually dreaming in this season. It seems obvious that Glover is using elements of African Magical Realism. Many people know of Magical Realism from Latin-American art; magical realism is about the inclusion of fantastic and mythical elements into seemingly realistic…

We also had the Civil War, yet Trump supporters were still wearing Camp Auschwitz shirts and carrying Confederate flags in the Capitol on 1/6. This is who Republicans are, and more and more of them are abandoning any pretense otherwise.

If you’re sincere in this and not just trolling, I have to urge you to read Blaker’s Fundamentals of Extremism (or, probably, any number of other books on the Christian right written more recently). The hardcore religious right that makes up the base of the anti-abortion movement also supports corporal punishment for…

Actually devoted Christians (yes, even Evangelicals) didn’t much give a shit about abortion until women’s lib came along and “threatened the family” in the late 60s/early 70s. Catholics were the only ones who really cared about it in mid-20th century America. When the Moral Majority saw women moving out of the house an…

Savannah recalls being pregnant at 19 and says it was hard for her to come to terms with that, but that it was “ultimately worth it” for her to have her baby.

If this is what they believe, why do the vast majority only go after abortion clinics and not fertility clinics, which have destroyed millions of embryos? I think if many of these “devoted christians” were honest with themselves, it’s specifically women’s rights that they are attacking. They care a whole lot less…

Tax the churches.

A lawyer for that delightful web designer contacted me to see if I’d write a “friend of the court” brief arguing how awful it would be for the government to force a creative person to create something that violated their beliefs. I sent a very polite “fuck you, your religion isn’t a license to discriminate as a…

If you thought the industry was hostile to journalists before, just wait until SNK starts inviting reviewers to their embassy in Turkey!

People get mad at anything they see as remotely “woke” these days. Two other scifi shows (Resident Alien and Picard) were both in their crosshairs recently, the former for daring to have a “girl power” episode with jokes about vaginas (it was hilarious) and the latter for having characters from a future where racism…

He will never resign (at least while a Democrat is in the White House), he will never recuse himself from any case even if was literally “Ginni Thomas v. Biden,” and he will never face any consequences whatsoever. And because Republicans have so fundamentally broken every branch of our government there’s nothing we…

“Love makes you do crazy things” - every man who’s ever physically abused a woman.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult

The normalization of this is twisted and insane.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult, and that physical violence at a formal event full of your peers where you hope to win an award is ok. How far we have fallen.

I generally don’t comment on other people’s appearance, even complimentary, for a reason. People are sensitive about it, and you never know what the reason might be behind an appearance. Who knows if the weight loss you noticed or whatever is a source of pride or a source of angst? A lot of people’s lives would have…

He didn’t make a joke about her alopecia. He made a joke about her being bald, which isn’t the same thing.

No more voting. From now on, Oscar winners will be decided entirely by combat.

Unfortunately, I can see the Academy adding more violence next year to increase viewership. Dame Judi Dench and Olivia Colman in fisticuffs. Timothee Chalamet slamming Tom Holland’s head into the stage. John Williams leaping from the ring to deliver a diving clothesline to Hans Zimmer.

That was Will Smith’s biggest hit in years.