You begin to touch on the core of Democrats’ problem here with “Panera moms,” but then head off in another direction. The professional class, the upper middle class, the top quintile- whatever you call them, they’re now a core component of Dems electoral coalition, or at least any version of it that wins a…

This may be my deeply-ingrained local bias, but I think Pittsburgh has some of the best bougie + generic high school names. Five of the six richest high schools in the suburbs are called:

Ok this tweet alone is a pretty reasonable one...

The question of how to portray language in this movie was always going to be hard, but the final product they went with was actually one of the only things I didn’t love about the film. Wakandan characters switch between subtitled Xhosa and accented English mid-scene, even when speaking to the same person. I realize…

Counterpoint- the accent choices in this movie are kind of dumb. “Realistically,” they wouldn’t be speaking English. So they’re going to do the whole movie in an artificial accent that nobody in the audience is used to hearing or speaking.

Until this post I’ve been reading all his (her) bylines as “GirL Nathan” instead of “Giri” because the font is too small. Now I know