Hey, if you wouldn’t feel comfortable saying it to the person’s face, why say it online? If posting is the only way you feel any sort of power or control, you gotta find a constructive hobby. Me? I build ships in bottles and post like a human virus.

Later on, you realize that the standard minor-key trailer score you’ve been listening to is actually the prelude to a moody remix of ABBA’s “SOS,”

Probably a little. It’s essentially an hour of free advertising and unlike a debate or a campaign ad, Hilary can’t counter-program (I think that’s the right term at least) it since there’s no other late night sketch show she can go host or anything. Plus even though he’s terribly unfunny, being on SNL gives the…

These people literally cannot stop themselves.

Personally I’d love to hear more about the Weird Al movie from Radcliffe.

and he’s great in the Weird Al movie!

“OK, it’s sad about JK Rowling. Now does anyone want to talk about any of the other films I’ve been in? There’s, like, 16 of them. Also, I act in plays and television.”
“Yeah, that’s great. So about Harry Potter...”

Yes, SNL incrementally assisted in the election of Trump. It was hardly the tipping point, but it did contribute to the image of Trump as some sort of person that was acceptable as a leader. Something that we now know to be untrue.

How so?

The film is genius in playing to the public’s inherent affection towards Matthew Broderick, who is very much introduced as the relatable audience surrogate reacting to the absurdly heightened political ambitions of a high school student. Over time more is revealed about his character - his cold relationship with his…

How?

Well, sure. We identify with Broderick and then spend the arc of the film learning about what happens if we follow the dark path of temptation. And by watching Broderick’s character bottom out, we realize that Flick wasn’t the villain after all. His extremely petty revenge at the end of the film underscores this - his…

It’s a cowardly position to claim as Gould did, that science and religion are compatible. To do so requires having one mindset in the laboratory and a contradictory mindset outside it. I’m also a scientist and think JBS Haldane put it best when he said the quote to the effect that if he trusts the equipment in his…

The whiplash exists purposefully to say everything while examining nothing, for clicks. It’s a schtick that bad modern bloggers use as a replacement for substance.

He’s just saying what all rational people already know, but bloggers need to frame it in the “Brian Cox Says a Thing” trend that drives so many clicks.

Tracy Flick is not the villain of Election, she is only the villain to Matthew Broderick’s character, who is very clearly the one who is in the wrong and is thoroughly punished for his misdeeds. This is not some secret, subtextual reading - it is the explicit plot of the film. Flick wins, Broderick loses, justice is…

I am an atheist and am excited to learn that, apparently, it now qualifies me as an “edgelord” as well. I also got whiplash from the way this article seemed to keep pivoting back and forth on whether the author thought it was the worst take, a legit take, a weird take, etc. 

It’s ‘contrarian’ and ‘edgelord’ to champion critical thinking skills now? Sounds like something a rib bone would say.

I’m sorry, but what makes his take “edgelord”? Are all atheist takes edgelord?