People are making the same mistake that started with Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter: they are calling a land within a theme park a new theme park itself. If you call the new Super Mario World land a theme park all to itself, people will indeed think it needs to be bigger. However, it is not a new theme…

Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another parking lot!

The fact that anyone thinks hospitals are making money off of COVID is so insane to me. If they’re making money, why are they laying people off?!? I work in healthcare (not patient facing, so at home) and we’ve had our retirement contributions halted, our cost of living raise canceled, no new hires, and our entire…

It’s a mix of value judgments and betrayal.

COVID deniers are very likely to believe in bootstrap philosophy and think that people who get sick from it are “weak” or did something dangerous to get it. They obviously believe that could never be them. 

The COVID deniers also probably can’t believe that the politicians,…

One of my idiot coworkers was claiming a friend of a friend was killed in a drive by shooting and the hospital listed his death as covid-19. These people will believe anything that fits into the worldview they want to have without any evidence, and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

I have only two observations to make:

It’s time for Savage Nobody! The advice column that you wish you could block!

It’s horrible. This isn’t “grew up a Republican in a family of Republicans, am starting to question my inherited loyalties.” This is “not only applauding but actively, materially helping someone who went well out of his way to murder people.”

Let’s give the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to Grieco.

See, that’s a load of crap because many of the great comedians have done “woke” comedy even if it wasn’t called that in their time. George Carlin, Stephen Colbert, Frankie Boyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift. And that’s a small sample.

Nah it’s fine

He openly made fun of trans people, then tried to cover his shady ass by saying woke people weren’t funny (John Oliver, Steven Colbert, Seth Meyers, Trever Noah and Smantha Bee would all like a word) and trans people have his permission to exist as long as he can make fun of them without anyone pointing out his humor…

Have you ever looked at the rates of murder and violence against trans people? Now make a joke about it. Now tell me how much perspective I should have about it.

Cool, is this where AVC starts taking it as an article of faith that Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda are always horrible?

I disagree with Barsanti, by which I mean I disagree with his smug, graceless and gloating prose.

Look at you, using logic and shit.

I might be misremembering this from accounts of Chapman coming out, but I think Idle was very supportive and everyone else was deeply uncomfortable.

I mean he was friends with a director who liked shooting rape scenes and talks about wishing his third wife would just die.  He may be a comedic genius but as a person?  Ehhhhh.

One of those communities is routinely murdered. God forbid John Cleese gets some backlash on Twitter.

I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks