All kidding aside, it actually explains it really well. It’s just that the only pro-social behavior that cats engage in is between mother cats and their kittens. The yowling is just a reversion to kitten behavior, that worked for them when they needed food.

Yeah, here’s where we part ways, because there’s a perfectly-feasible way the math works out, so long as the under-40 coalition is unified, while the institutional Democratic Party is split. The principle is no different than how Trump won with such a low ceiling of support in the Republican primaries in 2016: he…

Been playing Witcher 3 (um, at home).

He’s doing it because he’s an animal, and also because he’s kind of a dick.

The thing that struck me was how affable and funny Ken Jennings was. In the first episode, after (I believe it was) James razzed Alex Trebek in the Final Jeopardy by writing in who was the best game show host and crossing out Pat Sajak’s name, Alex quipped about this being a comedy show, to which Ken then deadpanned…

That . . . might go terribly, though. You know how fans can be with LeVar:

Complete agreement on the first half; qualified disagreement, bordering on semantic quibble with the second. I will focus on the first half.

You’re more tactful than I am. It could be my high-functioning autism, but I’m like 85% sure that if I’d been in that situation, I’d have said something about how I never interpreted the opening scene of Carrie as a how-to manual for responsible parenting. And I’d probably say it innocently, too.

Pfft. They ain’t got nothing on our rebellious teenage protests:

A good starter video:

A real jury isn’t going to be a jury of peers until it’s not an undue burden for people making minimum wage to serve.

It becomes easier to understand once you realize how much the press coverage of this literal non-event is an It’s Anyone’s Fault But Mine reaction on the part of the press. The article itself is like a throwback to Hurricane Katrina coverage: exact same pictures, telling a different story, that when put together…

In fairness, I’ve noted before that certain people have an almost perma-Photoshopped quality to them, as if they’ve always been awkwardly CGI’ed into a scene even when they’re just standing around, because their stated proportions don’t seem to fit the reality around them. I’ve mentioned before that Megyn Kelly seems…

Respectfully, what I was trying to do was acknowledge that nobody gets to speak their own private language, and accurately describe the cultural context around the words “working class” that currently exists in America. Regardless of what you personally would like to talk about when you talk about the working class,…

Well, strictly speaking, even though they are very similar, they are arch-typical of how liberals and, um, let’s say “other” leftists have fought an internecine war against each other since the 1960's, to the moderate Dem’s benefit.

He’s not. But in absolute fairness, it’s a mistake that the media made every single time they discussed the subject until approximately 2017, and even then it wouldn’t surprise me if they screw it up. “The working class” has been read as white men with no college degrees since as long as I can remember, and I can…

To me, the best thing about Alien’s script (which is a very, very good script) is that it makes the Neidermeyer-esque rules stickler the fucking hero of the film and the only survivor.

FilmCriticHulk once quoted his friend, who pegged the problem with J.J. Abrams’ storytelling really succinctly: “I like The Force Awakens, but only as long as it’s right in front of me.”

To this day, I can’t get over how well Jon Stewart pegged Megyn Kelly nine years ago, both in her positive qualities (namely, her ability to effortlessly filet a doofus), and her negative qualities (namely, her breathlessly cynical ability to argue for whatever happens to advantage her at the moment). He really summed…

That’s a very good takeaway, and I suspect a major part of why both the prequels and the sequels have the reputation as being, at best, cotton candy versions of the stories that are actually being told. Because Zahn really, really established a grounded, realistic tone to the series.