This, this. A thousand times this.

“Back in Obama’s day, you know what were the #1 and #2 killer of Americans? Heart disease and cancer. One and two, the whole way through. Thanks Obama. He did nothing.”

Well, the sad thing is, there isn’t that much dot-connecting going on, and I actually kind of feel bad for not recognizing it sooner. Obviously, I’m looking at it with my six-year old eyes, and I suspect Lucas is, too. Lucas is very clearly playing with an unreconstructed version of the trope where the evil leader,…

I’m . . . less convinced than you that Kasdan could have saved it, just because the production process was way different for the OT than it was for the ST.

As a child of the 80's, whose love of Yoda in no small part encouraged me to go get an actual philosophy undergraduate degree, I can say two things about George Lucas with a fair degree of certainty. First, for someone who wrote and created such a timeless story about good and evil, he’s got a really impoverished…

Yeah, the short answer is: there is no bottom.

Mr. DeSantis, there are two ways to deal with this problem. You either kill this virus by vaccinating everyone, or, the absence of a vaccine, you cut off its ability to spread. Ron, you have to close the beaches.

To give Trump (who does not deserve it), and his followers (who “deserve” it only in the sense that if I want to call myself “good people”, I have to grant it when I’m merely “very sure” rather than “absolutely positive” they don’t deserve it) the benefit of every last doubt, Trump is currently exploiting the baseline…

Making your character not look like complete idiots is a crucial part of not breaking immersion, and they spectacularly failed at it.

It . . . oh, I wish that had been intentional. That’s not bad wordplay at all.

But even as his actions, or inaction, consign people to die, even as he behaves exactly how many of us feared and warned a Trump presidency would handle a crisis, it may not matter. I desperately hope I’m wrong.

It is apparently news to Trump that there are Americans out there with covid-19 symptoms who are unable to be tested for covid-19.

This has long been a policy position Warren has held. It was one of the main pillars of her presidential campaign. The measures she presents would cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for Americans who need it.

People usually cite Indiana Jones films for the PG-13 rating system (and less-frequently, for the hollowing out of the PG rating, to “Practically G”). But I’d argue it was Poltergeist that really got the avalanche rolling downhill. In any realistic assessment, that’s an R-rated film, just because it’s an extremely…

The Springs resident says her friend, a nurse out here, reported that a wealthy Manhattan woman who tested positive called tiny Southampton Hospital to say she was on her way and needed treatment.

I think it would be a stretch under general laws regarding battery. But you’re not wrong, and that is part and parcel of the problem that we’re facing: our moral and legal mechanisms are inadequate to the actions that we’re seeing.

That is a great way of putting it. Not just because you’re correct in the distinction, but because I think it captures why Abrams films end up feeling like the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: I’m not sure that there is an “about” to Abrams’ stories. The reason why his stories never cohere is because “Gee golly,…

Yeah, this movie wouldn’t work with anyone else but Spielberg at the helm. Not just because the raw emotional authenticity is so sincere and unforced, but because I don’t know any director who is better with child actors than young Spielberg. He had an instinctive ear for naturalistic childhood patter and for family…

The next time I hear the phrase “Drain the Swamp”, I’m just going to point to them and note that Sens. Kelly Loeffler Richard Burr, Dianne Feinstein and James Inhofe are the swamp, ding dong (the person I’m rhetorically speaking to, not you, tina belcher). If I have to talk myself out of putting Dianne Feinstein in…