He raises a ton of money for pro-LGBTQ groups and is a huge supporter of LGBTQ people on Broadway (which, you know, spending that long working on the stage you basically can't be anti-gay without being an actual cesspool wearing a skin mask as a face). He is very much of the "I want to keep my millions, every single…

Raven by Tim Reiterman is the best book on cults (it's about Jim Jones and Jonestown) that I have ever read. Compelling, well-researched, well-written, and gives a lot of nuance to a situation that is sorely lacking in shades of gray in the public memory (for one, it helped me to understand just how so many…

My favorite "Some say…" of all time.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT

Yeah, but Trump thinks the polls are rigged against him, and I don't. I think the polls are largely done with tiny sample populations nad primarily trotted out to fit a particular network's agenda for that day and to keep people tuning in in general.

Supposedly (according to the Twitter rumor-mill), Putin has tape of Trump participating in vaguely-legal, erm, happiness activities during one of his last trips to Russia.

It's a very true statement that once you have a million dollars, it becomes much, much easier to make another million and another after that.

That IS the question. I'm a Bernie voter, too. I think it would come down to us having to really hold Bernie and Elizabeth Warren to the fire on getting them to just relentlessly bug her to make sure she stayed on track for some of these promises. She's been shown to be willing to move to the left to match Bernie and…

I have been increasingly distrusting polls for the past, say, six months or so? Maybe eight months. They seem to always "just happen" to bear out the "OMG IT'S NECK AND NECK" drama that gets better ratings for 24-hour news channels, and… maybe it's a bit conspiracy-theorist of me, but I'm having a hard time believing…

I think we can only really go after her for that if we simultaneously start holding the prior two presidential administrations accountable for having done the exact. same. thing. HRC's two most-recent predecessors used private email servers, deleted emails, and behaved essentially identically - but it simply wasn't a…

I WOULD LOVE TO DISCUSS HRC'S POLICY PROPOSALS. ANY TIME. PLEASE SOMEONE TALK ABOUT POLICY.

It's very much of-its-time. That is to say… it's a hideously dated film, but so is Day of the Dead the original. Night of the Living Dead stands on its own pretty well, but everything following that, like you said, definitely falls into genre cliches in a big way.

Did it? I watched the first season back when it first came out and was… so thoroughly unimpressed. I tried coming back for season 2 and it was such a slog I gave up. I think a lot of what I DID see has just sort of run together in my memory at this juncture.

oh dear god I forgot that movie existed

Are you talking the original, or the remake? The original Dawn of the Dead had some pretty interesting things to say about abortion and consumerism in the 70's.

Most zombie lit/movies either imply or outright state that the only "feeling" the zombies have is one of constant gnawing hunger, and eating/attempting to eat people is the only thing that sates it for even a few minutes.

You know, that's a good question. Zombies don't go for animals, that's fairly well-established, as horses/dogs/cats are clearly shown to sort of wander aimlessly by without being harmed. That implies that basically any wildlife would be essentially safe.

He's not wrong - that movie shared a name with Max Brooks' incredible book and nothing else.

True. The Hand needed to be saved to be the main plot of a whole season, rather than kind of shoehorned in after as brilliant a main story arc as the Punisher/Kingpin stuff.

I will say that I would have liked the Punisher's arc to be the entire second season of Daredevil, rather than splitting the story the way they did. The Punisher was such a compelling character and all the screentime that involved him/his story was so dead-on perfect that it felt like the other half of the storyline…