The acceptance speeches were generally good, too— self aware, reflective, focused on important stuff.

I thought so too. If nothing else, the opening bit, Glory and Lady Gaga made the whole thing watchable. Oh, and Tegan and Sara, though I didn't see the Lego movie, so I felt like I wasn't fully getting it.

I think it came down to a few things but namely that, in the top line categories (Actor/Actress, Director, Film), there really wasn't any suspense.

Okay, let me get slightly personal here: There was a period in my life when right after I graduated and my student insurance lapsed but before my job insurance kicked in. To keep getting my BC pills, I had to go to a Planned Parenthood. Now, I am a progressive Christian. I don't like the idea of abortion for me (I…

I have a theory about people who become wildly successful/famous on the level that Steve has achieved: their relationship with their past, pre-fame and success, is an either or proposition. Either they embrace it. Or they shed it like a snake sheds its skin, leaving it in the middle of the road, to dry up and blow…

Maybe you're looking for PA to say something wrong because you called her out for not being witty to some rando telemodel on the red carpet and then she turned around and made this awesome speech. It seems pretty obvious at this point that she had other things on her mind than amusing the public on the way in.

I ENDORSE THIS FRIENDSHIP.

This super tiny part of me hopes she reads these articles. It's the same part of me that finds joy in seeing somebody else fall down. I'm not proud of it, but I acknowledge that it exists.

This is pretty low. A cover letter is supposed to help you show the hiring manager what you can bring to a new job, and this woman wants to use skills she's gained in the past to be a victim advocate in the future. This is probably an entry level job for her, or she'd be talkinga bout her criminal justice experience.…

Never smile. Frown deeper.

Nope, then you get the Smile! directives.

SOLUTION:

The phrase "American exceptionalism" makes me want to exceptionally shoot my American self

As a history teacher this makes me shake with rage. Fox commentators thinking history doesn't matter because they get bummed out having to think about slavery and the extermination of Native Americans is textbook white privilege.

Note to Representative Rhetoric: Planned Parenthood does not perform that type of procedure in South Dakota. Breast exams and pre-natal care and women's health services are not terrorism.

"Women were created from men," says Zach.

As one of four children raised by a single mother and the not-proud owner of a spectacularly infuriating deadbeat dad, not at all.

Is it misandry that I really hope there's a deadbeat dad in the picture that sees zero of this money?

Aw, this is fabulous! I hope she gets herself something nice too, because honestly—was she chosen as a POSTER CHILD for cliche, shitty jobs? Like, she works at McDonalds: ok. She works at Walmart: ok.

BUT BOTH?

Girl. You deserve every cent of that. Every GD cent.