Yeah, this is where I point out that, as bad as Trump’s actions are, Trump is not the worst actor at the moment. That honor goes to the Republicans on the Supreme Court, starting with William Rehnquist. Because they are the ones who have constantly hammered and weakened and procedurally nullified the 4th, 5th and 6th…

It would be difficult to describe without the context, but suffice to say that one of the most fascinating characters in the books is Stannis Baratheon. Stannis, through plot shenanigans, becomes one of the strongest claimants to the Iron Throne, but Stannis . . . *sigh* Stannis is a difficult person to like,…

His best cameo will always be as The Underminer:

. . . What do blackface or racism have to do with wearing a facemask? I mean, there are also laws on the Virginia state books requiring everyone to drive on the right-hand side of the road. Does Mr. Falwell only drive if he can paint Gov. Northam in blackface on his car?

Kellyanne: If you can stand in line for a cupcake, you can stand in line to vote

I don’t know that I’d go that far. But at least as far as reality show contestants go, we’ll never see men the same way again.

Heck, Joan Cusack even turned Barry Sonnenfeld’s divorce trauma into something marvelous, even compared to the glorious scene-chomping that Angelica Huston and Raul Julia performed in The Addams Family:

It seems unlikely that the show will end with an elaborate insemination ritual, but some kind of proposal of procreation, a vow to reproduce together, is probable.

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.