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Friday, March 11, 2016

A Hillary Clinton Thought

Maybe Hillary Clinton decided to say something nice about Nancy Reagan by talking about her stance on stem cell research, and had a brain fart and said "HIV/AIDS" instead? If so, that was her second mistake. Her first was wanting to pander to the right-wing nuts in the first place.

In a situation like this, where the deceased isn't worthy of adulation but you want to be respectful, all you do is offer condolences to the family. That's it. Hillary, in trying to score points with conservatives -- who will never, ever, show her the same courtesy -- offended many of her core supporters (in November, if not necessarily during the primaries) -- people of a certain age who lived through the days of the despicable Reagan administration. In case you weren't alive then, or somehow have forgotten that bastard, here's Dan Savage's rant.

Nancy supported her husband's evil, reportedly abandoned her friend Rock Hudson when AIDS was killing him, and only started advocating for stem-cell research after Ronnie was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And her puerile "Just Say No" anti-drug effort, if anything, did more harm than good.

If Donald Trump becomes our 45th President, remember this day.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Overdue Quick Review: Deadpool

I'll keep this short: Deadpool was loads of raunchy, violent fun, and Ryan Reynolds is perfect as the title character. I didn't see the need to bring in a couple of X-Men characters -- one of whom I've never heard of before and is named...get this..Negasonic Teenage Warhead. But whatever. My grade: A-minus. Let's get back to Ryan Reynolds...


...and to think that since this cover hit the newsstands his career went in the tank a bit. Now he's a star again.