This is amazing news. I just wish Michelle had lived to see it happen.

The way people were criticizing this movie for having a white woman feel bad about herself and not think about all the people less fortunate than her truly struck me as the “what about the children in Africa!” of critiques.

It’s so weird that so many rockers just become country singers when they get older... is there going to be a supergroup in the future featuring Hootie, Kid Rock, Aaron Lewis, and... well whoever else I can’t think of right now? Probably, you betcha.

The problem is that’s not what they do. These places are extremely misleading, often making them appear like legit medical clinics instead of faith-based facilities in order to trick women who want abortions into coming in. And then they do a lot of ethically dodgy stuff, like forcing you to watch videos full of…

Planned Parenthood and abortion providers are subject to strict regulation (in many states, regulation aimed at deliberately making clinics close). These providers are not. Republicans in Congress have repeatedly attempted to strip all Federal funding from Planned Parenthood programs that are unrelated to abortion and…

But they generally seem fine with the mother being at risk for death... or the baby being born into unsafe environments...
And they also generally seem unwilling to teach proper techniques to prevent these unwanted pregnancies...

They make women think they are places to get healthcare or even an abortion, then bait-and-switch them and give them incorrect medical information. So, no, this is not a both sides thing.

How about a chart for the whole show? Lawful good = Vern. Follows a family’s brief, exacting standards, and tries to make the family happy with 100% success so far. Neutral good = Laurie. Good because she tries to make everyone happy, but neutral in that she does try something out of left field occasionally. Also, she…

That’s the biggest problem with Hildi is that - on occasion - she could do an amazing room. But she would be a hellish designer in real life because you could tell her TO HER STUPID FACE that you want shabby chic - which is not something anyone should want - and she would instead give you modern industrial because of…

My last house, I redid the kitchen when it was time to sell and kind of regret it. I thought it’d be helpful in a down market, but it’s questionable whether we saw a return on the investment and it was kind of heartbreaking to have a remodeled kitchen with beautiful counters for only a couple of weeks.

It’s interesting because the original run of this show was before the Wayfairs and Joss & Mains, etc. of the world and, of course, all the big HGTV blockbusters like Property Bros, Fixer Upper and the 8 million flipping shows. The interior design shows back then were way less trendy and popular (Candice Olson, for…

I spent weeks going through this list by NPR:

Christgau also wrote one of the best lines when reviewing Prince’s “Dirty Mind”: “Mick Jagger should just fold up his penis and go home.”

Oh man, great article Nick. The Village Voice’s longtime former music critic Robert Christgau is one of the most divisive, dickish and maybe reductive critics of all time, but man, there’s no one I enjoy agreeing with more when I do agree with him. Sorting his reviews by letter grade (the A+’s over the years were…

Surprisingly quality work from Homer, there.

How did “Dowhatchalike” not chart? It had a video that got a decent amount of airplay and “Humpty Dance” was absolutely huge. I guess America just wasn’t ready to grab ‘em in the biscuits.

The early 90s were formative musical years for me. And here is my Sugar story:

Simple Minds has a pretty great early 80's catalogue. Have you listened to New Gold Dream? It’s different from EATB and JD, but it doesn’t suck.

What’s shocking to me is how *good* that 1983 Top 20 list is. I mean seriously, for pop music, at least half of those songs don’t suck and quite a few are downright classics. Contrast that with today and it seems Top 40 pop is just a vast wasteland of generic noises and mindless words. And I am NOT one of those “music…

I love Billy Bragg, but the definitive version of A New England has to be Kirsty Maccoll’s.