Why does it seem like all the most famous NEWSWOMEN of the 80s and 90s are absolutely horrendous people?

The Monkees weren’t about music, madptarmigan! They were about rebellion, about political and social upheaval!

Repo Man is the best thing anyone has done ever.

— in addition to Repo Man and Tapeheads?

He essentially pioneered the music video:

I’m surprised at what this obit leaves out. He also produced movies, including Repo Man and Tapeheads, and created the show that was the direct predecessor to MTV.

And it’s still truly baffling to me that otherwise intelligent people believed this for a second.

Their own reports record more “hate crimes and bias motivation” against white people than any POC group.

I don’t personally find a problem with anyone believing it initially. It’s believable enough. 95 days earlier, a MAGA LARPer who drove around town in a van plastered with Trump stickers sent pipe bombs to the Clintons, Obamas, and Robert De Niro.

Smollett fucked up badly, yes. It was an awful thing to do and he wasted a bunch of city resources. So, sure, fine him. Five felony counts is fucking mind boggling. It’s particularly egregious because the counts are just pile ons of telling the same story told to two different cops. Even if the judge is lenient…

Good.

“America, let me just tell you something - do not commit crimes with checks.”
Charles Barkley

Being a C-list celebrity with a B-list and rising sister didn’t help. I’m not sure this becomes quite the thing it did (w/ a special prosecutor) otherwise.

I don’t know about mentally ill, but here’s a white bus driver who was convicted of staging an attack on him:

Just because you’re a first time offender doesn’t mean there’d be no conviction, just likely a lesser sentence...
You seriously saying he shouldn’t be punished just because you think white people wouldn’t? If anything he has made it harder for real victims of racism to be believed.

The thing that boggles my mind is that just TODAY, a sitting Congressman went on a talk show and promoted the idea of arming an insurrectionist militia if the GOP loses in 2024.

show me a white person convicted of anything similar, especially a clearly mentally ill first time offender.  this is racists getting revenge for being called racists..

The Basilisks my ass. That was clearly a clip from Il Dolce Stagione (The Sweet Season), an underrated and forgotten Wes Anderson gem:

At one point after Wood filed charges, I noted that he did not look like a wise dating choice (or words to that effect). I got flamed for victim-blaming.

RIP Lina. Pasqualino Settebellezze is a must see, I always get a little choked up thinking about it.