And I think of The Weakerthans:

The same is true of this country as a whole; we have no idea who the hell we are any more because the future is too scary to contemplate and rather than grapple with it together as though we all have skin in the game, we’re fighting over what the past was.

Seeing Kevin Pittsnogle makes me immediately think about Taylor Coppenwrath.

Yeah that’s not really an appalling quote. Now if Smith had said, “You’re a quarterback for Buffalo,” *that* would be appalling.

A misunderstanding (or more likely exploitation) of the 1st Amendment.

I recognize that Beto is too moderate for a lot of people (me included but I will vote for any Dem candidate in the general), but I DO think that if he were VP on a more progressive ticket - like maybe as Warren’s VP - that might be pretty fucking unstoppable, electorally. Personality-wise, too, he’s got that whole…

I hope that this is an isolated incident, and not something that becomes poutine.

Can I just say how much I loved AP History?  Plus, I got college credit which freed me up to do other things my first year.

Nightcrawler is such a great movie.

“Hardesty simply read every officer’s account of Lewis’ racist joke.”

I was a prosecutor in Upper Marlboro for around eight years, several of which were in Juvenile. I didn’t do adult truancy much - the Juvenile Chief handled them, primarily - but I handled some of them when she needed help. My time in Juvenile was the saddest in my career, watching these young people who desperately…

Moderately surprised he didn’t trot out some holocaust survivors to say they were fine with the slogan.

I think the sketch also alerted a lot of people who didn’t know about any of the fucked up shit R Kelly was into. I remember explaining to people that there was literally a video on the internet of R Kelly peeing on an underage girl with a Space Jam mural in the background.

Sure, but there’s arguing for gun control and then there’s getting mad at an X-Men poster, or complaining that Iron Fist is a white guy, which I would say is definitely comparable to something like Fox News complaining that the coffee cups at Starbucks aren’t Christian enough. Jezebel just wrote an article condemning…

We need to consider the idiots that don’t read the full article, so that we can, to some extent, prevent the spreading of false information.

Not a dude, but the sweeping generalizations in this piece astound me.

Personally, I felt that Sorry To Bother You (unranked) was better than BlackKklansman (#13). It was harder to predict, more inventive, and I think had more to say. It was the best movie I’ve seen in years.

I’m just a Nobody, but I’ve been thinking about Pete constantly. No one knows his struggle the way he does but I can empathize. I hope he finds the help he needs. I’m in the process of finding my own help and I envy the friends he has that have his back. He is so lucky and I hope he sees that, through the darkness.

There’s a line in the movie where someone says, “I need you to do what you did for us in Iraq”

I think what I learned in undergraduate school is better: “The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the paintingVanity, thus morally…