lol @ the idea of country ballads and dance pop being distinct enough to violate an artist’s “authenticity” Read more

Your writing is always turned to 11, and this is beautifully written. Read more

Breaking Glass (1980) for your consideration 

I’m in love with your writing.

Yes.  They def cast someone who was too pretty on purpose. Read more

This woman is amazing and someone should quickly make a move about her and the rest of the resistance cell. Read more

Lawrence’s D could use a break if you ask me. And Nathan was too pretty to be good news, my 2 cents.  Read more

COUNTERPOINT: THE PLAYBOY SWEATER ~ IN THE CLUB ~~~ WAS A COMPLETE DEALBREAKER Read more

i don’t understand how Lenya can even meaningfully consent. the threat of violence at Lutz’s hands is constant. Read more

RIGHT???? Read more

Why not?  We live in a society.  Society tells you what you can and cannot do with your money all the time.  You can’t buy a nuclear missile, now can you?  Jeff can’t legally go down to a street corner and score all the heroin he wants, now can he? Read more

I’m happy to take that job. Bezos needs to be way more fucking charitable. Read more

Precisely. After his debacle with unilaterally and single-handedly shutting down a very popular bill that would address exceedingly serious issues in Seattle, I feel like that’s the standard of Citizens United being evil. Read more

This is what Mark Zuckerberg has also done. It’s all really good support for the notion that people should not be able to accumulate this much wealth to begin with.  Read more

I have read two articles about this now, and one thing keeps troubling me: it’s no longer the “white man’s burden” but the “rich man’s burden.” Read more

I saw this movie at TIFF and most of the people around me gave it a standing ovation. I couldn’t believe it. I don’t think the trailer does it any favors (the film is not just about the love story), but the first audience comment in the Q&A portion was how relieved the audience member was that the movie wasn’t… Read more

There are plenty of countries, like Brazil and South Africa, with large populations of mixed-race people and histories of virulent racism. Having sex with people has never equated to respecting their essential humanity, at least not on this planet. As a person of mixed heritage I just get irritated with movies like… Read more

At the end of the film, there is a postscript about the 25,000 black Germans who were persecuted during the war, and the ones who survived to defy Hitler’s vision of a pure Aryan nation. It is nearly infuriating how much more interesting a story that focused specifically on the struggles of this oft-forgotten… Read more

The media has a serious problem with presenting allied racism/anti-semitism in time periods where there were Nazis/fascists. Maybe people would have recognized where “America First” came from if we ever fucking talked about the original American Nazis from the 30s.  Read more

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