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I’m enjoying being on social media site Threads, which is like Twitter but less evil.

Some thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, online cringe and neurodivergence.

I don’t support anyone who enthusiastically supports Adolf Hitler, but a number of Kanye West fans feel otherwise.

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

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 a real change of pace, John Travolta, late in his career, that was not good.

Nicolas Cage. A jaguar and a killer on the loose. A boat. All the ingredients for a goofy good time.

One of you paid me to suffer through the 2017 time-loop Marlon Wayans vehicle Naked, which is like Groundhog Day, but nakeder and terrible.

My journey through the one season non-wonder Backstrom continues with a look at an episode where he solves a murder at a Scientology-like cult.

You know what movie REALLY holds up? The cult classic horror thriller Candyman. What a picture!

I finally got around to watching Child’s Play 2, which is mesmerizingly stupid and a little bit silly.

My journey through the much buzzed-about 2016 drama Vinyl begins with a look at its heavy-handed and underwhelming Martin Scorsese-directed pilot.

The second season of Red Dwarf ends on a high note with the audacious “Queeg” and “Parallel Universe.”

My journey through the forgettable police procedural Backstrom continues with a look at its underwhelming second episode.