Also, Rise of Skywalker was just fine. Yeah, it was weird, non-sensical, and gratuitously fan-servicey at times, but really, that’s just what Star Wars kind of is. It’s truly a Herculean effort to find people who shit on Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.

It is dumb. It’s also par for the course with Disney live-action remakes. There’s a weird skew to their attempts to “fix” the problematic elements of their films, in that they’re happy to fix stuff that people weren’t even complaining about, if they think it will head off criticism and allow them to perform…

Your shoulder okay there, buddy? I’m not a boomer, but I have to admit, as someone who is no longer a spring chicken, if I’d clapped myself on the back as hard as you just did, I’d probably dislocate mine.

That the masters’ tools cannot be used to tear down the masters’ house.

There’s actually a worse possibility: it’s Bernie who gets the plurality, but Biden who gets the nod.

My own (liberal, civil rights marching, lifelong lgbtq+ supporting) mother has stopped calling herself pro-choice because a couple of younger cousins were trying to get her to agree that abortions are a great thing. My mom doesn’t think they are great: she hopes that no one every wants or needs an abortion, but she…

It’s been half an hour, and I’m still clenching muscles I didn’t know that I had an hour ago.

That’s essentially my response as well: much like you can make a joke about tragedies if the punchline of the joke is that something was tragic, or that someone who was guilty of something terrible should be punished, I have no objection to what is essentially a Quantum Leap-ing dog.

But I was curious, given that coronavirus is all over the news and all anyone can seem to talk about in recent days, how CPAC attendees are squaring their love for Donald Trump with the reality of Trump’s bungling of the response to coronavirus so far. So on Thursday and Friday, I asked a few people a simple…

I can’t say that Barry Sanders was the best running back ever. I can say that I’ve seen a lot of great running backs, but even among them, Barry Sanders routinely, week by week, did things that would be the greatest play of those other running backs’ careers, and that would literally kill me to attempt. Phrases like…

Did Joe Biden fight off a bully named Corn Pop? Fuck, no. But Robinette did! Did Joe Biden get arrested while visiting Nelson Mandela in South Africa? Fuck no. But Robinette was definitely stopped and frisked.

Ewoks are Exhibit “A” in the concept known as “dissonance of framing.” Dissonance of framing is what happens when the camera, using film language, tells you one thing, while what the text says is something else. Lindsay Ellis actually had a great video about this w/r/t the Transformers films, where she pointed out…

That’s the kicker: everyone here on this website is wwwaaayyy outside the norm for this country in their ability to ideologically sort candidates. A majority of voters have either no real ability, or interest, in sorting candidates on the basis of a coherent ideology. They choose their candidates on idiosyncratic…

To be fair, I did think there were some subtle choices that were spot on.

Yeah, it’s sort of like those bits of old folk wisdom that kinda, sometimes make sense, but not for the reason they think. Like, going outside in winter time with wet hair will not in itself make you sick. That’s not how germ theory works. But it might make you cold, and you might need to spend more time indoors…

Respectfully, you’re talking about the lady who once called for “blood and teeth” to be knocked out on the Senate floor rather than accept a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Yeah, she’s someone I’d like to have a beer with; she honestly sounds like a hoot in person. But I’m primarily supporting her…

You’re as delusional as he is. First medicare is not free. I paid into it for over 50 years and I still pay monthly premiums.

So, it’s a Turing Test repurposed as a date simulator?