To be fair, Xena died a lot of times, and came back.
“[Xena’s death] is a huge regret on my part, because we didn’t realize really what it meant to people. We thought, ‘Oh, that’s a really strong ending.’ No. I just say to fans, ‘Let’s pretend that never happened.’”
Does anybody else get weirded out* out when Aldis Hodge DOESN’T look like he does as Hardison? Like, any role on Leverage? I can TOTALLY buy that, no problem at all. Aldis Hodge looking DIFFERENT confuses me.
*Not necessarily in a bad way, but I’m super faceblind and hair and facial hair are some of my big ways of differentiating people.
Marvel: We can't make Steve Rogers interested in men because he's the symbol for America and all its values, it'd upset too many people
Also Marvel: Hey sup guys guess who's actually a Nazi
Most of the assholes who scream “Blue Lives Matter” have never heard of any of these heroes. They’re too busy defending murderers like Darren Wilson, Daniel Pantaleo, and Timothy Loehmann.
“Not all cops are bad.” No shit. The cops shown in the photo are good cops, and there are many more like them. So why are you only defending the bad cops?
“And the fans won’t include her on any of their top ten companion lists, as the legend goes.”
^^^
Martha Jones was the greatest thing to ever happen to this series and she was fucking thrown away and is constantly ignored by the fans of this show and I will never stop being upset about this
Also, she totally banged Lucifer Morningstar the entire time she was out there being awesomesocks and saving the world.
“In a decade we saw a 119% increase in eating disorder hospitalizations in kids UNDER TWELVE. That is straight up horrifying, but not surprising.”
I work in a middle school and I see firsthand how incredibly the war on obesity has fucked with my students. Most of them have deeply internalized the idea that because they are fat, they should not be eating anything, so they skip the free lunch and refuse the snacks that they’re provided in our after school program, meaning that they’re not eating anything from 8 am to at least 7 pm. This has SO MANY negative consequences, from their health to their behavior to their social relationships to their self-image to their grades, and it is a direct result of them being told, from teachers and other authority figures, that their bodies deserve punishment. Many programs that focus on providing low-income schools with healthy food come hand-in-hand with food-shaming propaganda, and while we NEED more access to healthy and tasty snacks for our students, it feels like a devil’s bargain because the last thing they need is more bullshit teaching them to hate their bodies.
Are we surprised at this? Are we really? This is what we wanted, isn’t it? To be so neurotic and obsess about weight loss as the only way to being healthy.
Now our kids are developing eating disorders. Better than being fat, right?
Those people obviously don’t realize the extremely high kill rate for cats at shelters, not to mention that people literally dump indoor cats outside when they don’t want them anymore, and indoor cats often die due to starvation/predators (duh they have no survival skills).
Also - I might also be crying.
Jackson Galaxy is awesome. His story is is that he used to be a drug addict, and that while he was in the beginning of his recovery he saved a stray cat and nursed it back to life, and in return the cat essentially did the same for him, and ever since then, he’s taught himself everything there is to know about cats and their behavior. Cats saved his life, so he’s saving cats lives. He’s awesome.
Meanwhile, in the lower right hand corner of the gif, SHAME YOUR CAT NOW! #MyCatFromHell
1. First and most obviously, Clinton had the night she needed last night: Decisive victories in the two largest states, New Jersey and California, wins in New Mexico and South Dakota, and a close loss in Montana that netted Sanders a single delegate. Sanders only blew out Clinton in North Dakota (a caucus, his favorite). Clinton ended the night netting two more states, 89 more pledged delegates and roughly 650,000 more votes than Sanders. She didn’t just run out the clock on Sanders, fending him off as he ate into her margin in a surge of populist enthusiasm, she legged on him, expanding her already sizable leads in every category. She won walking away, and is the nominee. Yes, there is one more primary (District of Columbia) next week, but it doesn’t really matter (and Clinton’s gonna win it anyway). Clinton won.
2. Conversely, Sanders lost, and he lost both convincingly and in a way that kicks the legs out of any cogent argument that he has for moving forward. The Sanders folks had pushed their chips on California, hoping a victory there would justify him taking his campaign to the convention. But in the end he was 13 points and over 400,000 voters behind. California didn’t deliver, and because it didn’t, he’s done. Sanders took to a stage last night and vowed he wasn’t done yet, but at this point it’s not really up to him. The Clinton train has left the station and he’s still on the platform, holding his hat.
3. Which I understand is hard for Sanders and many of his supporters to deal with, but I have to confess at this point I’m finding it difficult to be overtly sympathetic. My own politics lie ever so slightly more with Sanders than with Clinton, and had he prevailed over Clinton, I would have happily voted for him in the general over any of the candidates the GOP had in their field this year. For all that, it’s been clear to me since New York at least that Sanders wasn’t going to take the nomination from Clinton. The existential threat of President Trump is enough that I’ve been impatient to get to last night so everyone could stop politely pretending Sanders had some sort of shot at this and focus on stuffing Trump into a dark hole, electionwise.
I mean, yes, Sanders supporters, I get many of you are upset and even grieving about Sanders missing his chance. Sorry about that. Take a few days! It’s okay. But after those few days are over if you’re still trying to find some way for Sanders to win — or less charitably, trying to find some way to punish Hillary Clinton for the heinous crime of having won more states, more pledged delegates and more actual votes than Bernie Sanders — then you should really be asking yourself if you’re letting your own definition of perfect become the enemy of the entire world not becoming a rampaging goddamn trash fire, because that’s really the other option at this point.
This is not to say I don’t expect a certain percentage of Sanders fans to spin off and possibly join the Greens (who are openly trying to reel them in) or, somewhat less congruously, the Libertarians, or whomever, or just sit out in a huff. It’s a nice exercise of one’s privilege to do each of those things. But from my point of view, here’s the thing: Donald Trump is manifestly the worst and least-prepared major presidential candidate in modern history, and unlike some previous GOP presidents who come to mind, he’s not nearly tractable enough to be managed by a cadre of presumably more-engaged minders. He’s the walking manifestation of Dunning-Kruger, a racist and an increasingly-dangerous blowhard, and the fact the GOP is under the delusion they’re going to somehow keep him in line should fill every thinking human with terror (the GOP doesn’t really think they’ll be able to keep him in line, incidentally. They just need to convince you they can do it). As a practical matter, if you don’t want a President Trump — and I don’t — then Clinton’s your gal.
And, yes! It sucks that because the GOP has let a genuinely appalling human become its nominee, you might be called upon to be responsible for the welfare of the entire planet, and vote more practically and responsibly than the GOP did this year. But it really has come to that. I know many of you Sanders supporters will have rationalizations how this isn’t the case, but: Nope! It really is. Get your shit together, folks. It’s actually important.
4. Likewise, this week Sanders gets to show us whether he’s interested in implementing his actual ideals, or is just in it for his own bit of glory. Bluntly: Sanders is never going to be president, ever, so he can either help Clinton (and help save the world from Trump), or he can stay in her way. If he helps her, he’s got a good chance of pushing his ideas further into the working DNA of the Democratic party. Which I suspect will be good for the party in the long term, given Sanders’ popularity with younger voters. He can be the progressive Moses — maybe not getting to the promised land himself, but getting his people there.
If he doesn’t help Clinton, and she wins anyway, then both he and his agenda are done, because you don’t reward the people who fuck with you. If he doesn’t help Clinton and she loses, well. I’m not pegging Trump and the GOP as being on board with Sanders’ progressive agenda, you know? And while I know there are some people who believe things like “Four years of Trump is just what we need to bring on the revolution!” those people are wrong, and assholes besides.
If Sanders is smart, then sometime soon — I expect not too long after his meeting with President Obama on Thursday — he’s going to pack it in, endorse Clinton and get to work helping to get her elected. This would be, incidentally, pretty much what Clinton did in 2008, and her getting with the program has obviously paid its dividends. Sanders won’t get the exact same dividends — he won’t be the nominee in 2024, for example. But there will be a lot he will be able to do, if he wants. Or, you know, he can decide not to. And we’ll see where that gets him, and us.
5. Yes, yes, Scalzi, but what do you think of Clinton? Leaving aside the obvious historical aspects of her candidacy, which are really cool and probably deserving of their own entry at some point, I’m very okay with her. I understand a lot of people feel negatively toward her, with the range going from “mild dislike” to “fervent loathing,” but I’ve never been one, and the idea that she’s somehow corrupt doesn’t really seem to have panned out to any great extent, now, has it? We’ve had Clinton under the microscope for a quarter of a century, and either she’s innocent of all the crimes to which she’s been accused, or she’s such a genius at exploiting the legal and governmental levers of this nation that, honestly, it’s a miracle she wasn’t made dictator for life decades ago. Her only real “crime,” if you want to call it that, was marrying Bill Clinton, who couldn’t keep his dick in his pants and made everyone’s life miserable because of it, and then staying married to him despite it all. But, hey! Maybe she loves him.
Otherwise, we have a presidential candidate who has been a senator, a Secretary of State, a first lady and a first-hand observer of the politics in America for four decades. She’s had amazing successes and crushing failures. She’s smart and flawed and savvy and a politician and she’s neither as inspiring as her most fervent supporters want her to be nor as terrible as her most hateful opponents want us to believe she is. I don’t support everything she’s ever said or done but most of what she supports I can get behind. She’s not perfect! But neither am I. She is good enough on her own terms to get my vote for president.
And this year, also: Jesus fucking Christ, the GOP is nominating Donald Trump. I would vote a lukewarm bowl of soup into the White House before Donald Trump. Every day of the week and twice on Sunday (were it allowed by the Constitution, which it is not). So while I would be perfectly happy to vote for Clinton in most scenarios anyway, given her major opponent this year, voting for Clinton is in my opinion not only a perfectly good choice but also a moral necessity. Welcome to 2016! And since I live in Ohio — one of the vaunted “swing states” — my vote may actually help push the state toward electoral sanity. I’m perfectly all right with this.
The boyfriend's cat will immediately LEAP off the wardrobe, race into the bedroom and pounce on me when the alarm goes off. She really only likes me at two times during the day... snooze pettin's time, and when I brush her.
I am very much not a morning person, and am always looking for ways to make the A.M. just a little more bearable. This adorable suggestion of setting a “cuddle alarm” from The Kitchn is almost too cute:
In two words (but repeated, and in caps): FUCK
YES YES FUCK FUCK YES FUCK
…seriously though, that is one casting option I feel like I could reallyget behind
this crotchety old dude wants SO BADLY to be Deadpool’s boyfriend that he’s stanning himself for the role all over twitter and it’s amazing
Ron Pearlman is fantastic.
He’s has never been terrible in anything. He’s a great character actor and people can trust him to bring any part to life. He makes all the weird parts he’s played seem grounded in some kind of truth.
WE’VE DONE IT WE’VE FINALLY GONE FULL EOWYN and I approve
YES.
also where can find this music?? Off to search the internet!!
This is why I’m glad you are family –heard the music and went “I WANT TO DANCE TO THIS”
I’ve officially been inspired by a period commercial
What sold me was the inclusion of the ballerina.
I mean the rest of it also awesome, sure. But. The acknowledgement of the shit they go through to look that beautiful and graceful and the inclusion of a trad-femme activity, I’m sold.
FUCK. YES.
In case anyone is still trying to find the music in the ad, the song is “Native Puppy Love” from A Tribe Called Red, a phenomenal First Nations electronic music collective out of Canada.
Hawkeye (with his coffee in the background): I’d say it’s an eight, Cap! Natasha: Seven. Cap: what? That was totally a ten! Hawkeye: it’d look better if you were wearing purple. Natasha: And there’s always room for improvement.
I *think* that’s one of the stunt doubles….? But it’s still impressive as hell.
