Aw, fuck.

We explicitly told people who were attending our baby shower that we wanted baby/children’s books. We had a registry, but we made it clear that if they were a little strapped (or just didn’t like us that much, I guess), a little $5 board book was perfectly acceptable as a gift. We received a couple of these, but I’ll…

Can someone clarify this for me please? Is this thing where white people call the cops on black people who are minding their own goddamn business like every other day a new thing? Or is it just that my privileged ass is just hearing about it recently because it started getting called out?

Yes. This. If the movie could take place on Arbor Day and you’d only have to change like three lines of dialogue, it’s not a Christmas movie.

Was the Gyllenhaal as Mysterio thing ever actually confirmed? Last I heard it was “Gyllenhaal in talks for unspecified part which we’re speculating is probably Mysterio.”

Shouldn’t that be “Del the Funky Homo sapiens?”

I’m not saying a lot of people didn’t like it at the time for some reason, I’m saying it was a terrible song then and it’s a terrible song now. It’s inexplicable popularity circa 1999 didn’t make it not awful. That Sugar Ray song was popular around then too. It was a dark time.

Saying Shrek ruined All Star is a little like saying Human Centipede ruined eating poop.

Yeah... I think there’s an important distinction though between saying “networks shouldn’t pick up this guy’s show,” (what this article is saying) and “this guy shouldn’t be allowed to try to get a show.” (article didn’t say that). He absolutely has the right to pitch his show to anyone who’ll listen. If I was in…

That’s absolutely true. My point was that while he has a constitutional right to speech, he doesn’t have a constitutional right to have a paid national platform for that speech. No one’s saying he’s not allowed to try and develop a show, but your OP made it sound like networks not picking up & broadcasting that show…

Sure, but there’s a pretty huge middle ground between someone not being allowed to speak and someone being paid to speak on TV.

I’m sure he’d like another go at it, but unfortunately for him that train has sailed.

“[Count Dooku] has the silliest name of anyone in the series”

I first read “accappela” as “alpaca” and I like my version better.

I don’t think I’d directly conflate patriotism with racism. What I’d say is that when the right says “patriotism,” what they really mean is “nationalism,” which then leads into racism via the whole “saving OUR country from the immy-grants,” “they took our jerbs” line of thinking.

This is ridiculous.

“The Secretary and her staff heard from a small group of protesters who share her concern with our current immigration laws...”

This may be true in the relatively near future, but for now Fox News and Fox TV are still one company. Disney has made the offer you speak of, but it hasn’t gone through, and Comcast has apparently outbid them, so the whole thing is still in-process.

Don’t be ridiculous. That child is clearly white.

I have a little bit of a problem with the automatic backlash to statements like this. I mean, I get it. They’ve often been used in a way that comes across as pretty disingenuous (“some of my best friends are women!”), but on the other hand, personal growth in empathy often starts with personal relationships. I never…