It never was.

There should be, like, a rule against treating post-divorce and -breakup rants against someone's ex-partner as serious criticism worthy of earnest analysis and discussion, unless they are accusing them of committing actual crimes.

The thing is, I don't see how the many, many reasons to criticize Whedon from a feminist perspective are relevant to this particular event. Those problems were already in his work before Kai Cole wrote what she did. They are in his work regardless of how accurate her accusations are. If it turns out she's telling the…

I really only noticed that circle jerk on certain threads, and since the TI Forums and AVCAD were created it's mostly stopped. The commenting community was if anything a lot more incestuous 4-5 years ago.

They might stop doing that now that they can just splice the articles directly. Which… isn't much of an improvement.

You know, they could have just switched to Kinja as a CMS and kept Disqus comments and made everybody happy.

It's like looking at an eraser that fell under the couch.

but only after confirming that the hipster was in fact a fellow lefty

What does the "!" mean?

Also Beyonce has been doing songs about dealing with a cheating man for years and years at this point, interspersed with such as "Drunk In Love". The idea that either of them are doing songs about relationship strife as a reflection of their own relationship rather than because people like songs about that subject…

Since when is "Jay-Z" spelled in ALL CAPS? Is this like when Puff Daddy rebranded as PWN DIDION?

Okay. Then we'll have to agree to disagree. I think there's much less to the man than meets the eye, but I do think he has a worldview, one based on superiority and inferiority, dominance and submission.

This guy O'Donnell, who ran one of Trump's hotels, had been criticizing the work of a black accountant working for the organization. Trump agreed and then complained about having black accountants in general, suggesting that he would prefer Jewish accountants. He then volunteered that the accountant's work was…

Maybe he was just expressing his sincere opinion about the inherent capabilities of black people? Why is it so difficult to believe that a white guy from Queens, born in 1946, whose dad was a slumlord who discriminated against black people, who was himself sued in the '70s for discriminating against black people,…

He said that in person to one of his employees decades ago. Antagonizing the left wasn't on his list of priorities at the time.

From everything I've seen I don't think Bannon is himself a white nationalist or supremacist per se. I think he's just taken advantage of white hatred in order to gain power. He's a right-wing nationalist populist — in the same general ballpark as Nazism, but not identical.

I don't know, but you sure seem mean.

We'll see. John Kelly is an experienced administrator but he has no political experience. He can be expected to be good at stamping out dissent and insubordination, but it doesn't mean he'll be able to build a White House capable of working productively with Congress despite the President.

I think the last straw was actually his call with Robert Kuttner where he systematically undermined the administration's foreign policy. I'm sure Kelly wanted him out for a long time but I think that call (where Bannon said, essentially, that the United States had no military ability to stop North Korea) provided the…

"The Rebel"? What rebellion could they possibly be referring to? The only rebels in Canada are Quebecois separatists.