or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised."

Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,”

Neither of them had the slightest problem with eulogizing a man who dragged the country into a disastrous and illegal war that killed thousands of young Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, shredded civil liberties, [and] fostered torture[.]"

I find this take fascinating because he describes precisely what PTA shows on screen: "The movie's radicals are self-involved and aimless, seeking metaphorical and literal orgasms via violence and mutual fetish." is the perfect summary of the beginning.

"A Native American bounty hunter has an unexplained epiphany and liberates the spawn of the CAC candidate and the dominatrix snitch, so she might show us how activism should be done in the future. Well, fuck me running."

"The black characters are snitches, insubstantial, and/or quickly dead, the notable exception being Regina Hall, who is wonderful in the rare moments she’s onscreen. "

"The racial politics of One Battle After Another are a mess. The director’s fixation on black women quickly becomes embarrassingly psychosexual—and, given their relatively meager screentime, unserious and exploitative."

"The movie's radicals are self-involved and aimless, seeking metaphorical and literal orgasms via violence and mutual fetish."

He came around soon after, though, once the program was on the chopping block and he could point to Johnston’s presence as proof that they were a co-ed team that couldn’t be cut — also for Title IX reasons."

"[W]hen Johnston enrolled in college at UC Davis there were zero women’s wrestling teams at American universities. She had to talk her way onto the mat with help from Title IX, which her coach didn’t much appreciate at first.

“I was given a sauté pan,” said Johnston, who also medaled in the 1989 World Championships while still in high school. “The woman who won gold, she was given a food processor. I look behind me, there’s a vacuum cleaner and a serving platter."

"Again, this wasn’t 1950. And it didn’t happen in some regressive backwater. It was 1990 in Sweden, and the top women’s wrestlers in the world were being awarded a series of household gadgets to honor their achievements.

dass ein Rindersteak 20-mal so viele CO2-Emissionen verursacht wie ein Soja-Steak? Und 15-mal mehr Fläche benötigt. Und zehnmal mehr Wasser verbraucht!"

"Übrigens: Ein verpflichtendes CO2-Label auf Lebensmitteln lehnen Konservative ab. Der mündige Bürger, dem keine Auswahl zwischen Tofu- und Schweinewurst zugetraut wird, soll aber selbst herausfinden,

Konservative wettern ständig gegen Bürokratie, erst recht jene aus der EU, aber stimmen jetzt im EU-Parlament über kleinteilige Begriffsverbote ab?"

"In all, we found that GPT-5 picked the stereotypical output in 76% of the questions."