I’m just gonna go ahead and say that Bernie should do what he should’ve done before he announced his 2020 candidacy (his 2016 run was fine—and necessary): Step aside for Warren, and be the elder statesman he’s earned the right to be.

Not everyone needs to be President. Shit, President isn’t even the strongest office in…

Niki Caro directed Whale Rider and I will respect her until my last breath for that wonderful movie.

This seems like the only live action remake where the live action thing might actually...work. The power of the original Mulan film was in the story—that it was told through the medium of animation was kind of secondary (contrast that with the original Aladdin, which is a magical, fun film precisely because it is…

Yeah- the way she bodily threw herself to interrupt balls had to hurt. They don’t even wear any padding! She was super impressive and gave them a hell of a fight. I did think her Dutch teammates were overaggressive. There were so many injuries. 

I watched this with my kids and my son was like “why will Mulan pretending to be a man dishonor her family?”. My involved explanation was causing a glazed-over look in my then- 5-year-old’s eyes, so finally I just said “It’s the patriarchy, man.”

No other way this could end. The US team have been dominant and unstoppable, they didn’t concede a single match. Looking forward to Rapinoe holding the limelight as USA’s biggest soccer star while pissing off Trump and his miserable band of deplorables.

I would kill to find out what Rapinoe and Macron spoke about during their extended handshake.

Talk about crush material intelligent, well spoken, competent, gorgeous...my girlfriend told me she was dumping me for Megan, and all I could say was “I don’t fucking blame you.”

Right. Cigarettes are evil, and somehow guzzling straight whiskey is fine. We have weird standards. 

Hopper smokes a lot but that seems very on brand for an Indiana cop in the 80s. I've got no issues with the depiction. It's not like the kids are smoking (which, uh, kids were definitely smoking when I was a teen in the 90s).

It’s clear to the teens and preteens I know who watch the show that none of the cool characters smoke. It’s also clear to them that Joyce smokes because she’s a “hot mess.” That’s a direct quote.

They also show a lot of people running around outdoors without putting a full spectrum sunscreen on. Since skin cancer is even more common, is that also a moral failing?

I was born in 1970. I grew up in southern Indiana. There are pictures of me where I’m a dead ringer for Eleven when she has short hair.

Exactly! That’s how I felt about the constant smoking in the recent Chernobyl miniseries, too (though granted, not as many kids were watching). And in that case I suspect it was some dark humor as everyone was sucking on cancer sticks while worrying about cancer-causing radiation. But if we whitewash over all the…

I frankly don’t even recall cigarettes in Stranger Things.

none of what you say is true, so why should we address it? you are just a crazy person

Except for the fact that people DID smoke like chimneys in small town Indiana in the 80s. It's very common for people to start (or re-start) smoking when stressed.

I mean.....people smoked. A lot. And everywhere.

Compared to the other candidate’s fuck ups, that is such a minor tiny little thing.

Some of them are. But it’s irrelevant at the moment, since Mitch McConnell won’t even let anything he doesn’t personally approve come up for a vote.