Splinter really went downhill faster than I would have thought. Every single site wants to distance itself from whit supremacy without really talking about it, whether splinter, white dudes club, I mean avclub, or any other site except here.

Was just about to say the same. When people say “Being nominated is enough” they’re half-lying because they’d prefer to win, but the nomination is an actual acknowledgement that you were one of the best in your field that year.

Side note: it’s technically* not possible to be rooting for someone at these award shows who’s “not any good” — they’re nominated in the first place, above all other performers, because they were “good.”

You mean Nneka Dereka Malika Shaquille Sunflower. Neither magical nor Negro, I’m afraid.

I know that Jez likes to hate on Tay for ....reasons, but I think she’s good people.

See, I had the opposite response. Where the hell does Mark live that movies only cost $10?

First of all, they weren’t asking for a 15 minute phone call - they were asking for her to fly from NY to Oregon for a cooking less from her IN PERSON. Ina apparently gets “hundreds of charity requests a month” - there’s no way she can fulfill every single one.

Nearly ALL celebrity Make-A-Wish requests get turned down. MAW specifically tells families not to make requests like this because of the high likelihood they won’t be fulfilled. From what I can tell, Ina had to turn down the requests because they conflicted with a book tour and other pre-scheduled events. As you can…

Why do make-a-wish kids have to get anything they ask for? SanFran Kid-batman was cute, but celebrities shouldn't have to meet some dying kid just because the kid wants it to happen.

“Unlike Pioneer Woman and her fake homespun persona/story”

He’s mocking her for her privilege? That’s rich. I would love to know what Eric Ripert's hard luck story is then because Bourdain pretty much lives up his ass.

I mean - yeah Guy Fieri is an easy target, but “if Ed Hardy fucked a juggalo” is awesome and hilarious

I used to watch Bourdain’s shows, but I got tired of his pompous attitude. Don’t get me wrong, I think Fieri is a flaming d-bag, it’s just that Bourdain’s the polar opposite, he comes off as an elitist d-bag when he describes the places he visits and the foods that he has eaten. I say give them both chef knives and…

YES! So what, Ina’s rich. She’s a good cook and a good TV personality. And she owns it. Unlike Pioneer Woman and her fake homespun persona/story.

But he can step off making fun of Ina Garten. That woman is a damned good cook, and her recipes always work. You know if you’re using something she wrote, it has been tested to within an inch of its life and the results are reproducible. Sure, she’s privileged, but she owns it and she is good at what she does.

WTF is going on?! ARE YOU OK?!

Well, I can’t lie. I have sort of a soft spot in my heart for these magazines. I read a lot of them sitting on the futon couches of various straight pals in my college years. Laughing at their fashion advice, enjoying their Patrick Bateman-esque guides to seduction, tastefully flipping past the pages with the girls...

Not a game, a movie. An action movie starring one true American hero and his dick- gun, I mean gun.

To be fair, it does seem a bit logical to me that if you’ve got 10 terrorists engaging hundreds of people who are armed, you could potentially decrease the total death toll compared to 10 terrorists engaging hundreds of unarmed people. *shrug*

This is the crux of the “good guy with a gun” issue, to me. These people are deeply invested in the Rambo fantasies in their minds, in which they—people who have often never fired a gun under actual stress—will magically be capable of defending themselves and others as if they’ve just undergone, like, extensive…