It was inevitable that MAGA would come for “Star Trek.”
They’ve spent years fucking up “Star Wars” fandom, warring with creators and driving actors off social media with their sexist and racist attacks.
Now there’s a new bit of clickbait making the rounds, claiming, with zero evidence, that most “Star Trek” fans are Republican and the franchise needs to embrace that.
Set phasers on stupid.
Continue reading “A ‘Republican Star Trek Fan’ Makes About as Much Sense as a Tribble Brain Surgeon”
Living in this country feels like being trapped on the top floor of a 25-story tenement in which there are at least nine five-alarm fires a day, Orcs are storming the building, scorpions are dropping from the ceiling, and a tsunami threatens outside.
There are so many emergencies, so much dire news, you don’t know which way to turn.
But right now I want to talk about something that happened that is so profoundly stupid, it almost defies description.
Continue reading “Waiting for that MedBed? Don’t Worry, It’s Never Coming”After CBS cancelled Colbert’s show to placate President Dipshit, I joked that the network would replace it with a new program:
“The Super Happy Love Kissy Kissy Trump Forever Hour.”
Today that doesn’t feel like a joke.
It seems like the direction of all corporate media. The Mango administration flexed its muscles: Brandon Carr, the head of the FCC, threatened ABC, and ABC buckled, pulling Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely.
Continue reading “Now Kimmel. Who’s Next? We All Are”Late last week, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade stated that homeless people should be killed.
“Or involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill them.”
That’s it.
Oh, don’t take my word for it. Watch the clip yourself.
There’s no sugarcoating this kind of talk. This is just how the Nazis spoke.
Continue reading “Why, No, I Will Not be Mourning a White Nationalist”
At last, the world has discovered Mr. Terrific.
Thanks to James Gunn and actor Edi Gathegi, Mr. Terrific has emerged as the scene-stealer of the big blockbuster Superman.
A character who was at best a C-lister has now joined the A-ranks of DC’s pantheon – at least for the moment.
But what a moment it is.
Continue reading “The One Thing DC Must Stop Doing to Mr. Terrific”
Mark Perigard 