Are there factual errors in the reporting? And why shouldn’t laymen be commenting on how the bill failed to pass? I would be interested to hear what Barsanti got wrong.

I won’t drop the link here but Politico is reporting on Republicans working to craft some kind of joint tax reform and ACA repeal next session after tinkering with the reconciliation rules. Which, by Politico’s estimation, means that the bill would hit sometime in the middle of midterm season next year.

If the…

In 2009, a friend of mine was really insistent that I would like The Horror’s second album Primary Colours, which was getting a lot of press in the UK, but I had little interest in it after disliking Strange House. He played b-side “You Could Never Tell” for me, and its Buzzcocks-meets-My Bloody Valentine sound was…

It at least provoked a pretty great Sam Kriss essay railing against this pseudo-intellectual prejudiced horseshit.

Mea culpa. I just hate them so bad. Their brand of pseudo-intellectual xenophobia is just one that is particularly sour to me, because I was exactly the same kind of edgelord when I was a teenager. I was one of those dipshits who toyed with casual-to-blatant racism/sexism and used deeply flawed “scientific studies”…

I did read it. It makes a whole bunch of bald assertions about the biological differences between men and women, and then leans on those assertions as evidence why men are more suited to high-stress jobs in the tech industry than women are. It’s pseudo-intellectual prejudiced horseshit on the level of something like…

Yes, I really did. Eat a dick, edgelord.

Oh fuck off. I’ve read the fucking memo, and it is absolutely anti-diversity and pro-misogyny. The dude is a fucking moron who should have his degree stripped for being a fucking ignoramus.

Gosh, but if you all leave, where am I going to find endless reams of identical comments that contribute nothing but whinging about the fact that things have changed since you like them? HOW WILL I KNOW THAT THINGS ARE DIFFERENT AND YOU’RE UNHAPPY IF YOU STAY SILENT? I mean, I can’t just assume that there are people…

At least they’re lighting incredibly flammable polyester hats on fire inside their own homes. Breathe those fumes in deep, boys! That’s what freedom smells like!

FF is a band I have always been 100% neutral on. There’s nothing hate-able about them but there’s also nothing about them that really grabs me.

I don’t know, Don, a lot of people are saying it. I keep hearing so many people saying “Donald Trump is a tremendous white supremacist.” I’m not making that up, ask them. Many, many people keep saying it, believe me. So many people, record numbers of people.

Pretty much how I feel about them. Just another band I don’t listen to and never stumble across because I exclusively listen to my personal collection. Dave seems like a great guy, but if I want unremarkable guitar music I’m happy to go back to the stuff from my youth (and Grohls) , which I have some nostalgia for.

To be so illiterate that you can’t even handle a correct book title.

Because some people want to read and comment about this stuff here on the AVClub and other people want to read and comment about it on one of the other sites. What’s so bad about that?

I’m surprised to read that someone was as jarred by that scene as I was. Whenever I bring it up in conversation about the movie, nobody seems to remember that part - compared to the hook scene, or when the family’s trying to put the ax in grandpa’s hand. For me, every time I see that scene, and hear that thud of the…

Yes, I had arguments with people who thought “scientists will be doing this really soon” (they’re not) after the book came out and then again after the film. I’m trained as an evolutionary ecologist and my wife is a professor of molecular evolutionary genetics, yet people were CERTAIN we didn’t understand the…

yeah but it leaves LA Confidential in the argueably much cooler category of Films Better Than The Film That Got The Oscar That Year.

Pearce's choices seem to usually be "interesting and different" over "good star career move", i.e., following up LA Confidential with Ravenous; his next starring one after that was Memento. He's also chosen to do a lot of smaller, supporting roles (The Hurt Locker, The Road) that are good little roles in good movies.

To be fair to the "Have you told anyone about this" question, it's elegantly written to be less overt than that. I believe it goes something like: