Steve Buscemi isn’t the Batman America needs, but he’s the Batman America deserves.

What has this country come to, where we fire journalists for telling the truth?

Welcome drew, back!

I think there’s a very real chance of crashing out on March 29. It’s not the EU’s interest, it’s certainly not in the UK’s interest, and it’s definitely not in Theresa May’s interest. Now as before, the relatively small number of hard europhobes among the Tories are joined by a significant number of opportunists (like…

So much this. If I wanted to know what idiots had to say on Twitter, I’d be on Twitter. In a larger sense, too, news used to be about reporting, instead of just parroting quotes. 

There’s a distinct chance he bleeds a lot more support away from Trump than he does from a left-leaning candidate, simply by being Not A Democrat. I think the left has a stupid tendency to assume that people love Trump because of who he is, and not the fact that he was the designated Not Democrat that election. These…

Yeah. The alternative to having hordes of volunteers to do very basic things like “tell people how to take trains” is you do like in 1912 again and restrict it to rich people who already speak French. Because otherwise there’s no way you manage 10,000 athletes and 500,000 other international visitors, in addition to…

You know, I had an interesting conversation about this with a German guy. White Americans (neither right nor left) have never had to come to terms with the fact that the country they live in isn’t the country they think they live in; Germans did, in 1945 and 1968. Some White People think America is an all-white, all…

Counterpoint: there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s or hate the Patriots.

How is this not a McKenna story?

Less Lovecraftian, more Neo-Brechtian Realist!

How hard would it actually be to load all these faces into the game? 1700 is a lot, but a well-designed game could simply restrict its memory use to the 106 roster players on a given game day. That should be within the capabilities of a modern gaming system.

I think NBA contraction is an ultimate outcome of this. Good players don’t want to play for teams that aren’t at least going to try to compete, and teams that don’t have the means or desire to compete are basically just going to be schedule fodder for the money franchises, which makes it harder for them to get good.…

NFL sponsors a national beer league for flag football. Every year, the winning team takes on the Pro Bowlers. It’s the only way. 

When you hear about artistic exploitation for 16 years... 16 years? That sounds like a choice.

1) Roman numerals are dumb, get over it.

Yes! The Wolverine as a film noir/procedural set in Tokyo would have been fabulous, something like Kurosawa’s Yojimbo meets Beat Takeshi’s Fireworks. 

I mean, there are essentially two valid, faithful Superman plots. One is, Superman has a dilemma where he can’t do two important things at the same time, which can be “save Lois” and “stop the villain”, or they can be “stop the villain” and “do something important as Clark Kent”, and has to choose one, or figure out…

I wouldn’t even call it catching lightning in a bottle: the charms of Ghostbusters are immediately evident and understandable, except that the standard Hollywood modus operandi is to do the exact opposite at every possible moment. The premise of the film is simple: a couple of jargony academic frauds turn out to be…

I specifically blame HP Lovecraft, and Brown University, not necessarily in that order.