And please don’t refer to them as “soldiers”. Soldier isn’t a generic catch-all for members of the armed forces. They are specifically members of the U.S. Army. Marines are simply Marines. Airmen and Sailors for Air Force and Marines.

Just, in the future, please capitalize Marine. It’s a title that we earned.

The purity olympics in America need too fucking stop. I am a left leaning, liberal woman of color. This shit needs to stop. This is why people end up becoming the Trump supporters we see in ever-growing millions these days. Nothing is enough. They all apologized. Fred Armisen was playing Barack Obama, not making fun…

I know “whiteface” isn’t a thing but ...

This seems pretty good, but that headline mostly just reminded me how much I fucking loved Moneyball.

I think she’s one of those contrarian Tila Tequila mofos that just HASto be different and so evolved and then cry “humanist” and “its all love”

Counterpoint: When Will Farrell is the straight man, he is wildly funny (see: Alex Trebek on Celebrity Jeopardy and his George W. Bush send-ups).  When he is trying to be the clown, that is when he fails.  Unfortunately, he and everyone around him have become convinced that this is where he succeeds.

There have been times that I’ve enjoyed his shtick (a few small doses, like certain SNL skits or his guest arc on The Office, and some of his work with McKay), but when he’s left to his own devices, I agree. I’ve never been able to get through more than 10 minutes of Elf without wanting to turn it off, for instance.…

Ferrell always seemed like those Drama kids in college that just tried way too hard to be funny, but he somehow Mike Meyers-ed the whole thing.  He’s got a few truly funny films, but 80% of the time he’s just over-aggressive about the off-the-wall humor and it just gets grating.

Counterpoint: fuck Wes Anderson

Will Ferrell has always struck me as just one step away from being colossally unfunny and annoying, and it seemed like he was incredibly lucky to have had talented people like McKay keeping him on a track where his talents actually went to good use - like a dog that is trying to get off its leash and go running…

Next week, there’s going to be a list of the best movies of 2018, as well as individual ballots with additional categories (underrated, overrated, outliers, etc.), so with that in addition to the site’s 200-300 individual movie reviews per year, I dunno dude, I think there’s plenty Of Meaning being said about movies…

Well, it’s not on our list of Top 20 Movies That You’d Be Shocked to Find Out AVC Critics Hated...

Yeah, I’m not a HUGE fan of the whole RPO deal, but I mean, Steven Spielberg directed it, and you can definitely tell, which for me makes it by definition pretty far from a worst-of list. 

By there being a lot of worse movies than Ready Player One, like a LOT.

I swear, you get more excited over angry men than anyone I’ve ever known.

Someone went to a lot of trouble to try and erase Hatshepsut from the historical record. 

I’ve red a couple of books about Hatshepsut and the beard the Pharoahs wore was purely ceremonial, not their real hair. Hatshepsut just adopted this tradition, so no one was trying to make her out a man at a later date. Also, some of the damage to her image might have just been caused by the Egyptians recycling stuff.…

But did she seduce multiple Roman leaders and eventually commit suicide by reptile? No? Then: advantage, Cleopatra. 

if you weren’t so ignorant about basic theology you would know the answer