This just in from ABC and Digg: Trump finally forced Jeff Sessions to resign his post as Attorney General and appointed Sessions’ chief of staff Matthew Whittaker as the new AG. I thought this a good place to bring this up because -- well, stop me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this a dumb time for Trump to do this, just…

Don’t be sad about it. Be angry! It’s great that the Democrats did this well when the Republicans seem to have done everything short of sending out alt-right death squads to shoot people who vote against them! So get good and angry, and between that and all the interesting rocks the Dems can now turn over you have a…

Just looked over this discussion thread, and it looks like a lot of people are furious that Republicans solidified their hold on the Senate and managed to hold on to some key states.

Think losing Congress will be enough for Fox to change their minds about being Trump’s megaphone?

Richard Wolffe of The Guardian just reminded me that (a) both the Senate and governor’s races in Florida were decided by les than 100,000 votes, and (b) that this same state just restored voting rights to 1.4 million former felons. So if the Sith won it was by the skin of their teeth, and the Jedi’s day is a-coming…

Take a good look at the head of this post. Is this a recent photo of Trump? Because I and a whole lotta other people have waited two long years to see an expression like this on his face.

One thing I’d like to know: Did Robert Heinlein ever actually see combat? I know he was in the Navy, but was he ever under fire? Because one big thing I have against Starship Troopers the book is that it reads like the guy has no idea how messed up real war can be. Then again, maybe I’m spoiled by having read The…

If I’m not mistaken, Mike, these were the years when the Papacy hardly had a place to call its own, let alone a secure claim to be the legitimate voice of Christ on Earth. I’m not sure if the Papacy had even moved into the Vatican by 897! And the move itself would cause lots of problems. Most notably, you’ll see a…

The question must be asked: Does Jason Reitman approve of Donald Trump? Because any movie that appears to add fuel to Trump’s “incessant and irresponsible refrain that the ‘fake news media’ is the enemy of the people” sure sounds like it aims to give aid and comfort to Trump and his Trumpublic.

Seriously now: Tattered flags are more heroic -- that’s why Old Glory, the one that flew over Fort McHenry, is such a treasured American icon. Also, the tattered flag symbolizes how Trumpublicans feel about themselves and their America: they see that tattered flag as flying over a fort even more battered than McHenry…

This is actually a very good idea. Let Matt Furie draw Pepe the Frog doing or being everything that Trumpublicans hate! When they bitch about it (as they inevitably will), challenge them to meet him in court! Surely America isn’t so far gone that your courts won’t uphold the right of a creator to use his own creation!

Firstly, in this poster Jon Allen seems to be trying to channel either The Avengers or the Justice League. And yeah, it is embarrassing. Which reminds me …

I’ve long imagined the late Heath Ledger’s notes for the sequel to The Dark Knight turning up, notably with this comment: “Joker on trial — big mistake! Remember Charlie Manson!!!”

There you go. See? They would’ve done better to go with book Davy than movie Davy. (This isn’t just rhetorical. The book and the movie diverge very early from each other. You’re bound to have realized this when you get to the point in the book where Davy’s building his “Fortress of Solitude” in the desert -- something…

Gonna cheat again, couching my comment as a reply to you. Does a soundtrack have to have singable songs for it to qualify here? Because there’s this one track that I’ve come to regard as my “happy music,” because it starts reeling through my head whenever I’m happy. By that same token I regard it as my soul theme, in…

I’ll cheat by couching my comment as a reply to you, and I’d like to talk not about The Dark Knight or Hancock or even Iron Man, but about Jumper. Because I find it strange to this day that the movie’s makers felt obliged to turn its teleporting hero into the backwards of what he is in the book.

Sorry about that … yes, not a joke but a cruel hoax. Still dangerous.

So … a kind of protest-art group.

Somebody told me the Satanic Temple was just performance art of some sort. If this is so, then no wonder you think I’m being ironic! But on the other hand … those people really should read up on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I’m pretty sure that was meant as a joke, too. Some things -- like anti-Semitism or the…

Okay, somebody just told me the Satanic Temple was some kind of performance art. Seriously? It’s just a show? If so, then no wonder you guys thought I was being ironic. On the other hand … maybe those people should read up on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I’m pretty sure that was also meant as a joke. Not so…