That may be the best line reading of 2015. Honestly.

The lengths "truthers" will go to to justify themselves is astonishing.

I just want to thank you for this comment. It's absolutely fantastic and a much smarter version of what I wanted to say.

Now that I can agree with.

That may be where we diverge then. What you see as setting the bar so low, as I said, I see as "acknowledging some of the stuff that happens every day". I grew up as a black kid in a largely-white town, and I grinned and beared for a lot of that stuff.

See, that's where I get complicated, because that "making nothing better" seems to be the result of minorities having a voice and influence they literally never had before in America. I don't want making "Everything worse" to be simply pointing out racism, but then I want to find a way to do so productively.

I was 50/50 with Chait. Part of me rolls my eyes at "trigger warnings", and rolls even harder at "micro-agressions".

"An appropriate response to Justine Sacco's tweet might be, "That joke is in very poor taste,""

This seems a timely review, with Bill Maher's "Liberals vs. Liberals" piece last night.

Same. This is certainly damning it with faint praise, but a C is so much better than what I expected, I'm kinda interested now.

32 in August!

Does Germany produce any films about anything even approaching happiness?

"This year, Madden 16 is being released as a episodic cinematic experience. You'll take the role of one of two teams each year, and experience the entire lead up to game day in the form of endless minigames, until the actual game itself.

That was my LOL moment of the night.

Having just finished "What It Was", one of George Pelecanos' fantastic Derek Strange books, Shaft sounds like a wonderful comic right in that vein.

Yeah, Illmatic's going to follow Nas around forever. Truly a gift and a curse.

I laughed way too hard at all of these jokes.

This may be the perfect combination for 2015.

Which… just…. ugh.

She's a politician. I mean, I loathe her politics utterly, but I'm sure in person, she knows how to schmooze and charm.