Having the legal “right” to do something and whether I approve of what someone does within their rights are different things (and similarly, King didn’t say anything about legal rights). That distinction was relevant to my earlier link on “the spirit of the first amendment”, but this one is arguably more relevant to…

“Superblood Wolfmoon”—which sounds as though it could’ve been on any of the band’s albums over the past 20 years

I thought Meek’s Cutoff was something of a letdown, but Wendy and Lucy worked perfectly. Williams’ segment of Certain Women was the only one I didn’t care for. I had read all of the short stories in “Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It” along with “Tome” and “Native Sandstone” prior to seeing the film and wasn’t…

The internet was huge prior to MeToo, with most Americans online long before then, roughly a decade after the alleged incident. And he isn’t like Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby where there are lots of women telling similar stories who all started coming out of the woodwork after some came forward, it’s one story that…

People don’t have magical rapist-sensing powers, so if they stick up for someone who hasn’t been convicted they can always tell themselves he’s not actually a rapist. And indeed Woody was investigated but never charged, with a Child Sexual Abuse Clinic concluding that Dylan wasn’t assaulted. Since then he’s made…

I’d agree he’s at the south end of his career, but Hachette still thought they could sell his book when they bought it from him. And all the online hubub about “American Dirt” and “My Dark Vanessa” didn’t seem to suppress their sales.

What is required to “prove they are no longer a threat to society”? Chemical castration?

Did society “shift” in the time between they agreed to publish the book and when they cancelled it?

Few people are willing to stick up for convicted rapists, a category that does not include Woody Allen. He’s undoubtedly a creep for marrying Soon-yi, but that doesn’t seem like a good reason to cancel a contract for his memoir.

Woody did “come back” from marrying Soon-yi. People only turned against him recently.

If Hachette had simply never offered Woody a contract, that would be one thing. But they did make that decision, and then Ronan whipped up a campaign against Hachette before we even knew what was in the book. It’s like there was a heckler’s veto, and the hecklers won because they were annoying enough. This…

Interesting. Who is doing the admin: the local councils or the contracted companies?

Kinja has failed to load any comments sections in any post I read this morning. I’m only able to access this by going into the HTML source of the page and finding the url https://film.avclub.com/embed/comments/magma/1841955142 inside. But even going directly to there I can’t scroll down to read anyone else’s comment,…

So if people are paying for it with their personal income, does the local government’s involvement consist of subsidizing it?

Why is the first list different? What is its source?

I’m confused: is it privatized or funded by taxpayers and run by the local government?

I thought Maisie Williams had been cast to play Ellie years ago.

I thought the U.K had the N.H.S rather than a “healthcare industry”.

“A lot of media critics are starting to dismantle the idea that the best satires take on “both sides””

My favorite Reichardt film is “River of Grass”, but after that is “Wendy and Lucy”, so having an animal in the title again is a good sign.