You don’t understand. The problem isn’t that Trump is cynically peddling snake oil to rubes. The problem is that this is the Jesus these people believe in:

Don’t sell Yen short.

Just to add: It’s already starting.

“[White privilege] a liberal, political construct...it’s designed to intimidate, get people to shut up and admit they’re guilty of doing things they haven’t done,” he explains. “I’m not going to agree with any aspect of it as they put it forth. I’m not denying that there are certain individuals out there that think…

But that’s the nature of technology. Advancements in tech often leave behind lost jobs and unnecessary resources.

“Rap” might be a little overblown. It’s really suffering the same thing that, say, Legend suffers from. On it’s own, it’s not a great fantasy film, but it’s also not terrible, and it has one or two characters like Meg Mucklebones or Tim Curry’s devil that are iconic in genre fiction circles even if nobody can really…

Look, there are a few ways that this can go other than the police unilaterally de-escalating. All of those options are catastrophic. One, the protesters can unilaterally de-escalate. In that case, sure, there’s the pretense of peace. But it’s a peace at the end of a gun barrel, which is not real peace, and will not be…

“Oh, king eh? How did you get that title? By exploiting the prey animals! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma, which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our ecosystem!”

Er, well, I don’t it’s wrong in theory to mull these kinds of things over. But I’m now trying to think of a way to non-traumatically asphyxiate under the weight of three other human beings, and I’m drawing a blank here. Like, I suppose there’s that suicide where you run the car engine in a garage and take a handful of…

We all know that Malcolm X would have told the Seahawks Coach to run Marshawn Lynch on fourth-and-one in the Super Bowl. Sure, Beast Mode would have gotten the ball into the end zone “by any means necessary,” but NFL coaches need advice from civil rights leaders as much as activists and protesters need support from…

Oh God.

Er, what? Even without the sequel, where Bob spent the entire film Mr. Mom-ing, I don’t think that’s the correct read of the text at all.

To me, the best scene in the film was the airplane missile strike. I have never before or after seen a film so effectively readjust it’s own stakes, and say “no, we’re entirely for real about the situation here”.

Okay, I have to disagree with this, pretty vehemently. That was not the message of the film at all.

I’d go even further. It’s not that he won’t grow, though of course he won’t. It’s not even that he can’t, though of course he cannot. It’s that he was put in charge specifically because he won’t or can’t grow.

I think I may have to mea culpa this. I was independently intrigued enough to try and find the article, not only could I not find it, the closest article I could find to what I was thinking of from Slate was entitled something along the lines of “John Roberts Has Never Been Pulled Over”. It’s from 2015 or so.

Admittedly, this interpretation does present a challenge or two to the surrounding text. There’s the scene at the drive-in, during a brief on-again chapter in Sandy and Danny’s endless vacillation, in which Danny comes onto her and eventually overpowers her physically, pinning her down in an attempt to get her to…

It’s one of those films whose badness comes at least as much from context as from content. On its own, and remembering that “autism” is more of a constellation of superficially similar symptoms on a spectrum than a single diagnosis, it’s not necessarily a bad portrayal. My biggest complaint is not so much Hoffman’s…

Yeah, we talked about this in the Toy Story review: it’s perfectly fine to make a fundamentally good-hearted person (or toy, or in this case, a fish) do dickish things in your film, so long as you first establish that he’s good-hearted, and why he or she is doing the dickish things that they’re doing.

Yeah, Biden’s central political difficulty is that he takes his foot out of his mouth only so that he can change feet. If the question was whether or not Joe will compliment how clean and articulate George Floyd was, I can only hope that the Biden campaign has hired someone to tackle Biden to the floor and wrestle a…