Huh. I might have lost that in the tide. If so, my bad.

I just think there's a difference between a scenario where Spencer says "no, it's ALWAYS wrong" and his challengers say, "But what about here?", and one where his theoretical challengers say "Firebombs all day every day or you're a bad leftist."

This is one hell of a spin on it. Spencer was arguing that all forms of vigilante political violence are bad, catastrophizi g it with examples of collateral damage and "people have called ME a Nazi, are you okay with ME getting punched?" When someone asked about Stonewall, he spun it by saying well Stonewall was OKAY…

Well, there was that furry con that got legit chlorine bombed a few years back, so there may be reasons why the con staff got twitchy at the threat of violence .

Man, I remember WW talked about this movie on its old "so you want to write for us " page, and oh, the shade. "So there are these 13 vampiric cla - uh, HOUSES, that use mortal ghou - uh, FAMILIARS as proxies…" The tv series likely drove home the influences, choosing to focus on Blade using a.neona - uh, FLEDGLING to…

The Nazis and the Occult two-parter is good for getting a look at their "not putting up with petty manchild shit" side, as they do an in-depth (if a bit out there) look at the Nazi's "white people nerds." For more down-to-earth stuff, there's their three-parter on H. H. Holmes and their four parter on Aum Shinrikyo.…

This was honestly one of those cases where the running gag just sort of overwhelmed anything else. I can understand wanting to discuss anything BUT UltraViolet, but there are only so many jokes I can take about stealing cum from sperm banks.

The hosts are sort of a "yeah, but" deal. They're very open on things like gay rights, aren't exactly fans of things like Gamergate or MRAs, but they're also open to exploring - sometimes endorsing (like with the Franklin child prostitution ring allegations), sometimes not - conspiracy theory and will occasionally do…

All the press I've seen for it consists of a billboard with just the title and the tag line, somewhere on the southernmost reaches of the 710.

Side detail: the podcast TANIS, in its general "throw conspiracy at the wall and see what sticks" storytelling style, did an episode on Elisa Lam and the elevator game.

Industry, science, and technology!

With a specific message of "Epilepsy Tonight, Bitch."

That's honestly a common concern, and one that's played out a number of times. There was a great Dollop episode on how Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto, pushed from behind the scenes for better native representation… and still got pilloried by members of the Red Power movement as an "Uncle Tomahawk" for playing…

As addressed above, my critique of Iron Fist on these grounds was somewhat misguided.

Right. Then using Iron Fist as THE example was a poor choice on my part. Here I was seeing it as part of a larger cultural pattern when Marvel had already done an Asian martial artist. My bad.

The problem comes when it's done over and over and over again. As mentioned in the debate leading up to the series, Iron Fist came about in an era when you could try to sell the mystical martial arts, but selling them as practiced by an actual Asian person might be seen as commercial poison. Hell, Iron Fist is of the…

"Who does struggle sessions?"
"Orientals! DUH!"

"Wait, wait, I've got it. 'Casablumpkin.'"

"Oh, Salvio liked me to carry it. He thought it made things more… dangerous, you know?"
"No, mother, I don't! God, what else was on tonight's menu? Sex under a hive of Africanized bees?"

If that was how any of this worked, Strom Thurmond would have just been buried in NAACP awards.