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I suspect this is aimed at the State University System. And I can understand the necessity, even if the optics are less than optimal. Translation: It sounds bad, but we're only really planning on discriminating against whites and males, so it's okay. The ones who are really being actively discrimin...

Rightly or wrongly, the perceived credibility of certain public health experts is going to take a hit, to the point that if/when a second wave comes, I don't know that a lockdown will be possible. To be honest, I think some medical professional screwed up by jumping in with these protests with both ...

Exhibit A for anyone who wants to argue that Star Trek writers have no idea what a leader is supposed to actually do. What makes it worse is that it seems as if the audience is expected to take her side. I mean, Chuck's right that comedy is subjective, but there's a difference between dark humor and...

Minneapolis is not the first city to disband it's police department. It has gone well. And I really doubt it'll be the last. I'm gonna avoid a twitter style dunking, but that thing that totally went really well hasn't, at this point in time, actually happened. No surprise it went exactly the way yo...

Do we really need the twitter-style outing and shaming of posters? Emotional blackmailing and ad hominems might be great for retweets but it seems needlessly performative (not to mention lacking nuance) for a thread with maybe a dozen posters in it.

I'm reading this for the first time right now. I was familiar with the basic story, but what surprises me is that it really is just a young adult adventure yarn in some ways (so far). There's definitely the sense that you're dealing with archetypes, symbolism, and allegory, but unlike something like...

The Plinkett persona adds a veneer of authority somehow. Watching Re:view or Half in the Bag, they come across as regular guys with varying opinions and tastes on film. Granted they have seen and know a lot more about movies than most people, but you can take or leave their recommendations without ...

The Plinkett persona adds a veneer of authority somehow. Watching Re:view or Half in the Bag, they come across as regular guys with varying opinions and tastes on film. Granted they have seen and know a lot more about movies than most people, but you can take or leave their recommendations without a...

Recently read The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, the first volume of The Book of the New Sun. Pretty interesting and unique sci-fi/fantasy, and very dense. Also read I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.

Kind of a weird episode where you can make a decent case for it being either pretty poor or really good depending on which elements you emphasize. I fall somewhere in the middle. Some nice ideas, a good script, but fairly weak in both the set-up and resolution of Cochrane's story. In some ways this ...