The point would not be to tug at heart strings (America is a cold hearted bitch that doesn’t give a f about anyone but themselves so that was never going to happen), but to point out that a 6 year old is able to make a better decision about their health than the president and secretary of education of the United…

That’s pretty much it. They think science is like a religion, and if you don’t like what it says, you pick a different one.

The girls didn’t really destroy Neil. He’s doing his usual interview style which requires a person to defend their position. It doesn’t mean he’s really advocating for the other side. Those two girls handled it beautifully. Unlike a certain “cool kid’s philosopher”...

That truck thing had to be all Trump’s idea. His campaign has raised more money than God, and they’re running it like an episode of Parks & Rec.

An idea for an anti-Trump ad. On video, someone ask kids how they feel about going back INTO school with covid-19 out there running wild. That’s it. That’s all you’d have to do. The rest would speak for itself.

Trumpies seem to believe that “science” is just another agenda-driven “belief system” that can be safely ignored in favor of whatever the waddling cretin opted to babble about on that day. They also have no idea how incredibly stupid that attitude makes them appear.

Where the mutant metaphor breaks down is precisely that greater scrutiny is entirely proportional to many superhuman abilities, especially at the world-breaker levels that frequently are seen in comics.

President Projection, once again. 

I doublethink on display by the GOP and their zombies is mind boggling. You can’t even call them hypocrites, their behavior surpassed that milestone years ago.

“getting rid of Trump is ok”

Why eat up a new cycles with a VP pick right now while your poll numbers are improving and your opponent is busy shooting himself in the foot on a daily basis?

I mean, I get the push to throw a newly popular young person into movies to make your movies sell, that’s been going on forever. It’s just having it be so easily quantified in this way, not even a secondary “Wow, Elvis sold another million records, let’s turn this into movie money” creation. 

Sophie Turner straight up announced that she got the Jean Grey part over a better actress, because she had more Instagram followers.

I’m sure there’s an element of screen testing, but it’s pretty depressing that the bigger attraction for casting directors would be social media followers of newbie actors.

It’s not an objective fact, but yeah, that’s the impression that I get.

Clueless is so deeply of its time that it reads like a 2005 parody of the 90's

“In Hollywood, they won’t have an actor come in and read [anymore]. They’ll look and see how many followers they have.”

Rewatched this movie last week and it 100% holds up. I laughed, I swooned over Paul Rudd, and I had a grin on my face the entire time.

I’ve actually been a Heckerling fan from “Fast Times” on. She’s a very smart director and that’s always been a rarity. She doesn’t get nearly enough respect because she’s done so much comedy but good, weightless comedy requires a genuinely inspired hand and she could have been another Lubitsch or Sturges had she been…

There are a few places in America (ye olde Colonial “living museums”) where they try to get unadulterated seeds to grow crops as they were in the pre-Revolutionary-era, and animals that haven’t been cross-bred as far as they know.