Going to be some great John Updike jokes and headlines about this title when reviews come out.

Yeah, that’s the bigger thing: I have more of a problem with John Lennon using his wife as a totemic work muse (probably in a way that she was mostly tolerating rather than embracing) than with the fact that a performance artist has little to add to a music rehearsal for a band she doesn’t play in.

You know the last…

I think it’s pretty clear that John and Paul were never able to have a conversation alone other than the one that was secretly recorded through the flowerpot. And then despite everybody saying Yoko doesn’t say anything, it sounds like she was a large part of the reason why the first meeting to get George back didn’t…

It feels like he probably deserves the benefit of the doubt. He’s apologised and clearly is at least trying to be an ally, if a slightly ham fisted one which is hardly surprising given he’s 74

I don’t really understand your point about Freddie, pretty sure both his parents were Indian?

Chernobyl was due to more than that. It literally couldn’t happen in any other type of plant. Also, the death toll for Three Mile Island was zero. If you’d been on the grounds having a picnic while it was happening, you would have got roughly the equivalent radiation dose of what a commercial airline pilot gets in a…

There are hundreds of new solar and wind generation facilities being constructed all over the country right now.

“I think vaccines are relatively safe and effective.”

It may well be, but the political obstacles to overcome are so great that wind, solar, and batteries are going to end up being the overwhelming majority of our power generation long before we convince Americans to open up to nuclear.

So one of those Nuclear Industry Council creeps got to you too, huh?

Yeah there’s the matter of waste disposal

They got us to click on the article to comment, and that’s all that really matters. They don’t have to make sense or even tell the truth. 

...It’s the moon. What’s the worst case scenario? Rendering the lunar surface even more barren and inhospitable? Like, do you think one measly nuclear reactor meltdown is somehow going to blow up the moon?

Nuclear power generation is a pretty mature and safe technology now. What exactly do you think is going to happen? Do you think that a nuclear power plant is like a nuclear bomb, and could explode, knocking the moon out of orbit?

Dennis’s reviews are always as if Debbie Downer was a real person. He really can’t go more than 3 paragraphs without injecting his personal world view stamp on anything and everything. I like to read them because they are way more funny than what he actually finds funny. It’ll never not be amusing to read a person’s…

Geez, slow Saturday on the news front, Hughes?

This is the reductio ad absurdum of “silence is violence.” It’s a sentiment I agree with when it comes to systemic racism and tolerating our endless military aggression, but I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that a rich white woman would repurpose it in such a way.

Now I’m terrified because I haven’t mentioned Britney on social media.

We’ve already got an overabundance of people giving their opinions on things they have no connection to or special insight on (“the AV Club!”, a punchline I haven’t seen in a while). It’s a really stupid norm to regard people as obligated to have & express an opinion. I would say that goes even further when it’s a…