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Reactionary anger towards strong-willed young people is generally a very bad thing, except for when that rage is for the obnoxious little shits Elon Musk has recruited to help him destroy the government/country.

Sketchy dudes online like to hide behind cute pictures of their children. Elon Musk does that IRL with a vengeance! He’s cosplaying as a good father.

For Kanye West, being an asshole online is more than just a fun form of self-expression; it’s an art form he thinks that he’s mastered.

Bill Maher isn’t important, leftist or an intellectual, so we should probably stop treating him like an important leftist intellectual whose words and ideas are news-worthy.

Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s much buzzed about rock world drama Vinyl was renewed after just one episode. It was all downhill from there.

You meet the strangest people at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

I watched the three hour long Kanye Infowars interview so that you don’t have to.

Because I am Christ-like in my selflessness, I watched all 103 excruciating minutes of “Dancing” Donald Trump’s infamous musical town hall and wrote a 3000 word My World of Flops piece eviscerating it.

Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.

A week devoted to terrible Saturday Night Live hosts kicks off with a mortified look at Milton Berle’s notorious episode.

My World Of Flops returns with a bleakly comic post-mortem on the biggest political debacle of the millennium (excuse me, WILLenium), Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 Presidential campaign

Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University made a part-narrative/part documentary film about how Jesus chose Trump to be president that’s pretty fucked up.

It’s like Snakes on a Plane but with money! And Kelsey Grammer devouring scenery shamelessly as Darius Emmanuel Grouch III, AKA The Rumble AKA The Colonel

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Nicolas Cage has got Laura Dern hotter than Georgia asphalt in David Lynch’s gleefully bonkers Southern-fried, Palme D’Or-winning Neo-Noir.

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

A perfectly cast Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery are a mismatched buddy team for the ages in Michael Bay’s uncharacteristically enjoyable 1996 action adventure The Rock.

John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.

With Shania Twain for some reason?

This Nicolas Cage vehicle is g-g-g-rounded until all of the g-g-g-ghosts!

Nicolas Cage has made a LOT of movies. Some of them are pretty crummy, like the overwrought 2019 Southern Gothic melodrama Grand Isle.

In 1992, Jaleel White and his alter-ego Steve Urkel most assuredly did do that, and by “that” I mean making an hour long special to celebrate White’s breakout popularity.

One of you kind souls paid me to see Chuck Russell’s terrific 1988 remake of The Blob.

As part of an ongoing series on children’s movies from the 1980s that are perversely dark, one of you kind souls paid me to write about the fascinatingly bleak 1985 Claymation movie The Adventures of Mark Twain, which is all about suicide, death, grief, mourning and, of course, the devil.

It’s Scream, except with urban legends instead of movies. And also terrible.

One of you kind souls paid me to write up George Romero’s intriguing feminist sort-of 1973 horror movie Season of the Witch.

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with a fond look back at David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune, which I deemed a Fiasco when I covered it for My World of Flops but that I now adore.

One of you kind souls paid me to re-experience the exquisite absurdity of Richard Rush’s gloriously kooky 1994 erotic thriller Color of Night.