Respectfully, you’re missing a rather key component in your assessment of Ms. Lindsay’s point: racism in the 1960's and 70's was both defined as absolutely un-American, but also defined upwards to apply to fewer acts, to the point that today, many people functionally define racism as “things that Bull Connor or the…

Let’s also recall that Vanessa Hudgens got hit hard with the “let’s blame the woman who takes naked pictures of herself, rather than the criminal that hacks her phone for those pictures, while we all gawk at her exposed body” stick about a year or two before the conversation started to turn about maybe not blaming the…

I have dodged spoilers. I have more or less completely played through both Skyrim and Witcher 3. I have free time. I have both games, and no more excuses:

Maybe I’m cynical, but I have trouble believing that we, as a society, can function without any sort of policing whatsoever.

I was going to go with “don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out”, but on reflection, I think your choice of words was the superior diplomatic option, insofar as it was the less diplomatic option.

Wait, we’re surprised by this? This precedes Trump in the Republican Party, and by this point is pretty much par for the course. Let’s recall that the phrase “enhanced” or “sharpened interrogation” is literally the word-for-word translation of the German euphamism that the Gestapo used on their prisoners:

Eh, sort of. As a Niners’ fan who was really invested during the Harbaugh years, I can say with confidence that Kaepernick was being actively screwed by the front office during those seasons. Essentially, it is true that Kaepernick had a bad case of the yips in those years. But those yips were caused by a front office…

Er, I think you missed the joke there. He was referring to the fact that by about Season 6 or 7 at the latest, geography no longer mattered. The Vale could show up unannounced at Winterfell to save the day, despite the fact that it was an established plot point that the North could not be invaded by land. Gendry could…

Socialism for her means “money taken from white people, and given to black people”.

Sir, this is an Arby’s.

Yeah, having not played The Last of Us, but having played games from the Mega Man era to just now finishing up Witcher 3, the key in most of these situations is to realize the problem is rarely “I’m bad at games”, so much as “there’s a key to winning this fight that I’m either not getting, or don’t have”.

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I don’t think so. This is a case where Roger Ebert’s formulation of the Law of Economy of Characters would have spoiled the murder mystery, but was brilliantly obscured by the fact that, well, it’s Pixar, and Pixar films don’t suddenly jag into murder-mystery territory. So I was really pleasantly surprised myself, in…

Yeah, this is where I remind people that, as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and depression, we need to stop putting racism in the “mentally-ill” bag. Nobody’s objecting to mental illness here. They’re objecting to Ms. Cooper’s racism. And while there can be overlap between racist beliefs…

I like your approach, but fundamentally, I’ve found that because it’s been labeled an escapist fantasy film, it’s supposed to have a “and then they all lived happily ever after.”

I gotta say, I’m trying to think of a Marisa Tomei performance where I didn’t find her to be a national treasure, and I’m drawing a blank.

What will reality tv do without offensive people?

Or to put it more sarcastically, here we see the exact moment when a “good, orderly member” of society becomes a bad apple who is completely unreflective of the larger institution which he represents, and to which other “good, orderly members” of society need never answer themselves for. For some reason, this is…

More basically, they’ve confused the concept of sin, which properly speaking is about doing bad things, with the concept of discrimination, which is about being bad people. Jesus was abundantly and emphatically clear that the former is tolerable to the Christian religion, the latter is its antithesis.

Yeah, this isn’t a hard thing to really understand, and one can take no firm positions on the distinction between sex and gender identity in order to form it. All one needs to do is ask three very simple questions: