In other words: we’ve already decided on the narrative (Justin Timberlake bad, Janet Jackson good), and we’re not deviating from it now.

Alright, now I’m pissed. I was not expecting to have to sympathize with fucking Justin Timberlake of all people today. But that passage there—

Are you saying bus fuel can’t melt steal beams?

Oh, we do have the bridges inspected. They’re usually flagged as dangerous and then just nothing happens.

The producers wised up that by dumping the game limit, they essentially guaranteed continuous must see TV events when the next great contestant starts racking up wins. Before that Jeopardy was slow and steady, but with each of these champs, they rode that wave.

I loved it, and critics loved it.  It’s not necessarily that audiences didn’t.  They just didn’t go see it in droves.

Yeah. It’s easy to overestimate how much the general public is aware of things like Wright’s anti-vax nonsense.

How many people would actually be turned off of seeing the movie because of Letitia Wright? The first one did well enough with late-career Johnny Depp to still get a sequel.

I’m one of those people, sort of - I hadn’t really complained about anyone’s streaks, but I like to see some ebb and flow of champions. Fifteen, maybe twenty consecutive wins is about is much as I’m excited to see and then after that I start rooting for someone to knock them off their perch. Particularly lately, with…

The Dems should simply call anyone in Congress who puts up a stink against any of these candidates a racist and a misogynist and let them defend themselves. Enough with the kid gloves, just call it like it is and let the chips fall where they may.  

That’s where Kris Jenner’s talents come in. She capitalized on a sex tape that dropped right in the context/zeitgeist where celebrity or celebrity-adjacent (which is what Kim was at the time, from her family association with OJ and her friendship with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie) sex tapes were all the rage. That…

Floppy dicks are ancient tech. It’s all about streaming now.   :D

“I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.”

He’s talked about that in interviews before calling out LOTR and even what he disliked about playing a bearded dwarf in the Narnia franchise- it’s the big beard, pointy shoes, stereotypical presentation he takes issue with because he thinks it makes it easy to think of them as not being human. So making them a…

Except for the fact that it provided healthcare to millions that could not get it otherwise. Go take your strawman argument somewhere else.

No. The allergic reactions that landed me in the ER were how I found out that I’m allergic to tree nuts and crab.

I can’t wait to hear all the new songs like “Whistle While You Protest For Fair Labor Practices”...

This is always a touchy and complex issue because oftentimes they are imaginary races based on folklore and myth... which were often in turn inspired by people of other races, or with specific disabilities, diseases, genetic conditions, differing anatomy, etc. I think we are a long way off from parsing this with…

a full nuclear war is off the cards.

The threat of nuclear war is there, however it is far less of a concern than it was in the 1950s to late 1980s.