The allegations against Joss Whedon once again raise the eternal question, how do you separate the art you love from eminently hate-worthy creator or creators?
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The poignant fiction that Donald Trump is somehow “cool” is never more transparently false than when he dances.
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A bully needs a crowd, which helps explain why our culture’s preeminent bully, Donald Trump, is so lost without Twitter or the power of the presidency.
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Oh my goodness, but the Joy of Trash Kickstarter campaign is off to a roaring start.
Get in on the action and FORCE me to experience even more of the worst the world has to offer, including the infamous second season of Baywatch Nights, when it tried to cash in on the popularity of The X-Files by becoming a supernatural show and Ben Shapiro’s novel.
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So it turns out Larry King WASN’T that old after all. Who knew?
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For the love of God, why are motivational Joker memes a thing?
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Trump and his supporters sure like to brag about the seventy-five million votes he received. But what does that mean, beyond not being enough to actually win?
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Why is shitty, outdated technology so weirdly seductive?
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A defense of sports fandom from a former White Sox super-fan.
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Framing Britney has me doing some soul searching on my own moral journey as pop culture writer, and how failure, rejection, a vicious pan and becoming a Juggalo led me to become a better writer and human being
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