Well, now that you mention it, sources have been saying that Paltrow’s been asking a lot of her associates who this “Taylor Durden” person is. . . 

In the days leading up to the 2020 Golden Globe Awards, Ricky Gervais seemed to have learned from the criticism he received for his recent transphobic jokes. But the lesson wasn’t “Try to avoid jokes about subjects you don’t understand.” It was more about imagining future persecution for the sake of avoiding it. In…

Which, given the steep learning curve of the controls of the third game, is really saying something.

Legit the first thing that came to mind:

Admittedly I’m still on the Elizabeth Warren/Stacey Abrams train, but nothing about have Castro as VP strikes me as a bad move. One of the most unsung, and most damaging, effects of having Trump as president is the damage he’s done to the administrative state through neglect and institutional rot (and in Betsy DeVos’…

I mean, being dead and all, they don’t technically need anything. But they definitely don’t need their legs.

Agreed in both respects. Claire does not seem like the kind of person who would read science fiction (medical journals seem more her jam), so she probably would not have read Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder, and thus not recognized the peculiar ironies of that story to her situation. But she does seem to embody the…

Eh, I’d strongly suggest reading at least one of the Gospels, if only to do some serious compare-and-contrasts between the Jesus of the Bible, and the Jesus of the Christian Church. I’d suggest Luke, myself; according to Christian tradition, Luke was a physician, and so he tends to ground his Jesus in a baseline sense…

I have to say that I agree completely. Well done and well said.

Yeah, have to agree. IMO, Lindsay Ellis provided a pretty comprehensive critique of the last season, which albeit voluminous, could be reduced down to “you guys spent 6 1/2 seasons veering away from the story, then you tried in the last ten episodes to cram everything you’d made into Martin’s pre-arranged ending, and…

You’re right on that; I think a great many people don’t literally mean “Bernie Would Have Won!” when they say it. It’s more of a way of saying “Nice job breaking the government, heroes!” to the institutional Democratic Party, because they were so sure that It Couldn’t Happen Here that they took every step they could…

There’s nothing wrong with assuming it, per se. The problem is failing to recognize that this is a transactional relationship. Politics is the fine art of deciding who gets what. I would prefer a division of who gets what that is fair, partly because fairness is good in and of itself, true, but also partly because a…

The idea was half cynical meme, half sincere lament, but it effectively poured salt on the post-election wound.

To me, there was never any greater sign that George Foreman had grown and changed as a man than the fact that he was so deftly able to get Frazier away from Ali. Ali was far into dementia at that point, and was basically wandering around like Mister Magoo. If Frazier had come for him, he’d have probably killed him.

With you 100%. It’s not exactly saving yourself to say “No, we had lots of footage with this actress who, through no fault of her own, was turned into the inner wall of an incel hurricane.”

Sort of. I’m by no means an expert on boxing, but it was my understanding that there were boxers roughly in the mold of Rocky Balboa: palookas who weren’t necessarily good, but whom you just could not drop outside of shooting them in the head. Balboa is an exaggeration of this phenomena, but there are those kinds of…

Sort of. I’m by no means an expert on boxing, but it was my understanding that there were boxers roughly in the mold of Rocky Balboa: palookas who weren’t necessarily good, but whom you just could not drop outside of shooting them in the head. Balboa is an exaggeration of this phenomena, but there are those kinds of…

Perhaps I’m alone in thinking this, but if I had one moment to pick from Endgame, I would pick the conversation that Thor had with his mother Frigga, played by Rene Russo. To me, the thing that really elevates Endgame, and indeed why it may have been the one series conclusion of the year that really stuck the landing,…

I’ve seen two, both seemingly odd, but incredibly well-deserved.

Okay, I for one would just like to say two things. One, Katie, you’re not alone on that particular hill. I at least regard both TFA and TLJ as the #2 and #1 most over-discussed 2 1/2 of 4 star films ever, but for different reasons. TLJ took chances but didn’t really stick the landing. TFA was so desperate to not…