Keith Olberman was on Bill Maher once talking about going on Hannity's show and then, during a commercial break, asking him how he could possibly believe half of the hateful shit he talked about on his show. He said Hannity just laughed and said he didn't believe any of it, it was just chum in the water for his…

Try telling the families of the children killed at Sandy Hook, who have endured death threats and harassment in real life and online by people who believe Alex Jones' rants about how that was all a false flag operation, that they're just "butt hurt." I think being sued to exhume your 6-year-old's bullet-riddled body…

The only Girls spin-off worth the effort would be following Elijah through the White Men Can't Jump musical extravaganza.

I'd have been OK with last week's episode being the last. Because that one DID answer the question of who you leave behind when you and your friends grow up.

yeah, I saw that in a WaPo story. I keep imagining no one on either his or her staff remembering they have to plan the thing til someone sees the egg company's tweet and thinking, 'oh shit. We gotta do THIS now?' and drawing straws to see who has to tell Trump there's yet another event he's about to fuck up if he…

"It's pretty close but not really but hey, it's yellow! butter"

I presume the thing only took place because Trump told Melania it would be her head that would roll if she didn't plan the whole thing - with no staff, no help from her husband and little advance warning. She doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd remember in advance when Easter is, or that the first lady has some…

I hope they send Oscar the Grouch.

Unless there aren't any kids there because the administration couldn't get their act together enough to remember they were supposed to be invited in the first place. Which appears to be what's happening.

You know how some people are just not good at speaking off the cuff and have that verbal diarrhea habit where they trail off into incoherence because they literally can't stop talking? Spicer is one of them, in spades. He's like that episode of West Wing where Josh filled in for CJ at the press briefing and ended up…

I had to disengage myself from a Facebook argument with someone who insisted that OBVIOUSLY he meant to say Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield and everyone was reaching for a reason to be offended. It was just too frustrating to explain that deeply offensive comments are deeply offensive no matter…

I grew up reading the comic For Better or For Worse and although it was not a favorite, it was reliably comforting and occasionally funny (I invariably read almost all the comics in the paper b/c it was a breakfast habit, even the terrible ones like Garfield). Farley the dog's death, after rescuing the youngest child,…

Because dogs are more innocent creatures than people. We all do evil or, at the very least, reprehensible things. Dogs don't, unless a human made them.

Her death, coming in the first 80 pages, wrecked me. That's when I realized what JK Rowling had in mind for the rest of the book.

As someone in the much maligned mainstream media, I have rewatched Spotlight several times. It's f*cking inspirational for a journalist who still believes.

I thought it was so interesting how, in his first scene in Spotlight, you think he's the smarmy lawyer working to help the Catholic Church hide its sins and you're prepared to hate him. But then in the confrontation w/ Michael Keaton, you find out he tried to get them to dig harder, and it was their fault they missed…

Ha, I like that moment too. It's like she's saying "huh. Interesting" without saying it.

This should not be the hill you want to die on, if your defense of O'Reilly can be summed up as "He's still getting paid millions, he must be good!"

That's very astute. I remember reading Paradise Lost in high school and our teacher noting that Milton made Satan very handsome for a reason, and it was our job to figure out why.

I know! He got the cocobolo desk! What more did he need?