This is one of those moments where the phrase “class war” becomes as literal as it can get. It’s also the moment where the governing class’ typical strategy to deflect from class warfare (namely, divide and conquer) becomes as transparently obvious as it can be.
Yeah, I’m going to have to say that, on his own terms, Kernan is simply incorrect. The stock market is doing well not so much because COVID-19 isn’t a crisis (it very much is), but because there’s no other good places for investors to sink their money into at the moment. Interest rates on bonds are near zero, nobody’s…
You’re wrong only in the sense that the Oscars get it wrong far more than they get it right. Toy Story 2 was released in 1999, which was both a murderer’s row for film that year, as well as a cavalcade of own goals in retrospect by the Academy. This was the year Elizabeth, The Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan…
Because neither black people nor autistic people are “people” in the eyes of many people?
Eh, I’m not inclined to give Rahm that much credit. Sure, 2010 was a cataclysm for the Democrats, and part of the reason for that cataclysm was that turnout for Republicans was substantially higher than was expected for a midterm. As it happened, the Republican Party base was energized as hell to vote for some reason.
Order, eh? Who does dirtside think he is? I didn’t vote for him!
I could be wrong, but I think the first question the founding fathers would have had was to wonder what the hell the First or Second Amendment has to do with a quarantine.
In fairness, she is a pretty blond lady in a tight shirt. For a lot of people, that makes her virtually indistinguishable from any other pretty blond lady as a person.
Carrie Fisher on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”. The story about Sir Alec Guinness alone is one of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard, with apologies to Mark Hamill.
God yes.
For the moment, I’m going to assume you’re not deliberately concern trolling. But regardless, you’re misconstruing what “believe women” actually means. “Believe Women” is not a blanket statement. It’s a shorthand that we use because the more accurate statement “afford a woman reporting an assault the same benefit of…
Perhaps it says more about my life than it should, but a sarcastic “Oh no! The orphans!” gets a surprisingly heavy rotation in my vernacular.
For my friend and I, it was “. . . and Nicholas Cage, as Fu Manchu” that put the film over the top. I think it narrowly edges out even Spiderman Noir for the best possible use of The Full Cage.
Can confirm. I saw the entire Planet Terror + Trailers + Death Proof combo in the theater, and to this day, I would still call it the absolute best theatergoing experience I’ve ever had. Better even than The Avengers.
On reflection, the closest I can come to a critique of the film, which isn’t really a criticism, is that Buffalo Bill is less a character than a grab-bag of traits designed from the outside-in to fit the evidence that leads to his discovery and downfall. A lot of this reflects the nature of the script: Buffalo Bill is…
And a not-insignificant portion of the country now believes that basically saying “nu-uh” to rules, laws, codes of conduct, norms, etc., is just fine and dandy.
While Meyers is often compared to Nora Ephron—the other major female auteur of the rom-com genre—I think a more apt comparison is Richard Curtis, the creative force behind movies like Love Actually, Notting Hill, and Four Weddings And A Funeral.