Less interesting than boring Kate and boring William? I agree that she’s boring but she’s more interesting than those two snoozefests.

So this is awful but also pragmatic. He’s got to work with him, the GOP still has a simple majority in the Senate, it’s not worth pissing him off while daydramig publicly over something that isn’t going to happen (Trump is not going to let adverse public pressure from people he doesn’t like anyway persuade him to…

Rey wasn’t controlling the light saber; Kylo Ren was.

Kylo Ren being a spoiled brat who becomes Supreme Leader is to me the most interesting part of the movie and one of the few reasons to be excited about the next one. It’s BECAUSE he’s such an obviously bad choice to be Supreme Leader of anything. He can’t even control his own emotions much less an entire force! I want…

I don’t trust TLJ to have thought about it like this, but Ackbar dying nearly offscreen is actually a mini-lesson...sometimes important people die in senseless and ignomious ways. However, they re-introduced him with such fanfare in the seventh film that it was kind of weird they dispensed with him so unceremoniously.

That was the only thing I liked about the stupid hijinks in Act 2 (make no mistake, I really liked the movie, but the plotting was BAD). Poe failed, Finn and Rose failed big time. It told a story that sometimes you can give all you’ve got and you can still fail miserably.

Thiiiiis. My parents taught me how to play spades when I was like 7 or 8. It was a rite of passage. I was playing with the adults by the time I was like 14. But bid whist was a grown-folks game so I never learned that.

If you didn’t grow up watching it played, how do you know it’s mean and aggressive in an unfun way? I grew up playing both Spades and Dominoes (and Uno too) and neither of them is more aggressive than the other...I’ve seen folks not talking to each other after both games. Actually, the game I’ve seen with the most…

I’m more appalled that Bon Jovi, which organized in 1983, was inducted in the same year as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is the godmother of rock n’ roll and without whom rock and roll wouldn’t even exist. I mean, Little Richard, one of the original inductees, was influenced by Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

It is, in fact, possible to enjoy both. It’s kind of like how I enjoy both documentaries and stupid B-movies; or both intelligent literary fiction and trashy YA novels. The problem is with people thinking that the two are mutually exclusive when really it’s just that everything has its place - you can like…

Well, the song simply being performed by minstrels in blackface doesn’t make the *song* racist. Minstrels took a whole bunch of normal, otherwise-not-racist songs (“Camptown Races,” “Oh! Susanna,” “Polly Wolly Doodle,”) and sang them...

Because they’re rich, and they don’t care if Roy Moore ruins other people’s lives as long as they get to keep their money rather than participating in society.

And that’s not even true, either...the South has been grappling with the flag issue for decades. Black Southerners. - and others - have pointed out that the flag is racist for years and years now. It’s only been recently that the country at large via the Internet has taken notice, but it’s not a new issue, and it…

Yes! This is me. I oscillate between genuine joy and the depths of despair. Feelings are complex!

I love Another Round and that was one of their best episodes...Jenifer Lewis is a national treasure.

Football is not an opportunity. Virtually no young black boy who started playing football this season for the first time will make it to the NFL - or even to the NCAA.

Black children don’t get to ignore their race until they’re eight years old. They learn far more quickly than that, and often rudely. Black parents don’t have the luxury of “leaving race out of it.”

Oh maaaaan. I studied abroad in the Netherlands and got into so many arguments with people about Zwarte Piet. Your statement on them dishing it out but not taking it? Truuuuue.

Stroopwafels are amazing.

The thing is...what he doesn’t realize is that even if his grandmother did get married at 13 in the 1930s...that’s still fucked up! Thirteen-year-olds were NEVER ready to get married. We just had really fucked up gender norms and expectations in the early part of the 20th century.