I kinda hope Woody wind, and, AND, helps make open secrets more toxic.  Oh sorry Louis, we can't hire you ever again because we can't last minute ditch you if the culture turns. You know how it is 

And besides, the contract probably doesn’t have a “Sorry, we decided we don’t like you” clause in it anywhere.

It’s a solid - if distasteful - legal position. Nobody can say they didn’t know all the history already, nevertheless Amazon’s legal dept signed off on this deal.

Bring a book to the airport with you and mind your own damn business lady!

A special needs Bangladeshi child, to be exact. But that didn’t stop Karl Rove, and the Bush 2000 campaign from sending out a flyer later in the South Carolina Primary claiming this daughter was born out of wedlock due to an affair McCain had with a *whisper*black woman*whisper*.

Adopting a black child: the mega-level of “having a black friend”

I loved this part:

As with BBQ Grill v. Seven Rings, I think that Fur Detective is a far better tattoo than what was intended.

She absorbs it through osmosis. You know, kind of like the time she licked all those donuts and then proclaimed how much she hated America. One lick was all it took for her to realize how much she hated us (despite being one of us) which is really quite impressive; it usually takes a day or two for most people.

Everyone should be blamed. No one should get a free pass.

Yeah....rock stars from the 70's and 80's, even ones with doctorates, are unlikely to be the fuck-giving types when it comes to sexual abuse.

Unpopular Opinion: Freddie Mercury is the role of a lifetime for Malek. I don’t blame him for taking it. I don’t blame anyone for wanting in on that film.

And yet...the production company isn’t being blamed. The surviving Queen members, who held all the power in this film production, aren’t being blamed. The studio isn’t being blamed.

We should be holding the living members of Queen who had an incredible amount of input on the movie, including the choice of director, more accountable for going forward with Singer after all the allegations. 

It was a choice. A choice to not know. I don’t believe no one ever mentioned it as you signed on to a potential blockbuster movie directed by a man with serious allegations against him. Someone - the agent, the PR team, your acting pals - at least brought it up because it would impact your reputation, or just because…

Life imitates art: this scenario has been the plotline of at least one Law & Order and two L&O:SVUs over the years, and they probably recycled it precisely because it's so appalling.

“I was an asshole because those other guys were assholes” is from the Bible, right? 

I did myself the extreme disservice of watching some of the “extended” footage. I do not understand why everyone is prostrating themselves at the altar of these MAGA choad teens, begging for forgiveness. Sure, now we know that the group of Black Israelites that was there was being confrontational. But that’s kinda…

That Oxford link says almost exactly the same thing I do. Like I said, “diffuse” kinda works, because one gets the general idea behind “making conflict less concentrated.” But “defuse” works better, because that was a potentially explosive situation between the MAGAts and the Black Israelites, and what it needed was…

to try to diffuse conflict