Woohoo, it’s my annual crabby Oscar-nom thoughts!
Thank you for this! Mangold is generally not a total lout, so even knowing nothing about the real Toshi, I found his use of the Silent Asian Wife trope really distracting--I kept thinking "if nothing else, doesn't he know how this LOOKS? Didn't anyone talk to him about it?" I even started to wonder if maybe the real Toshi had been crippl…
I thought there was a solid 30% chance that only Gisèle Pelicot’s husband would be convicted, while his 51 accomplices slid on “men are but simple creatures and women send such mixed signals; how were the lambs to be sure she had not drugged HERSELF as part of a sex game?” grounds.
We often speak of being “grateful” for verdicts. But whi…
Uh, I too have been thinking of this!
Great commentary from , my friend and editor at Big Technology. I’m pretty aligned with his take: deciding to end the practice of presidential endorsements is reasonable, but everything else—the timing, the interference with an already-written endorsement, and especially Jeff’s epic failure to anticipate subscriber reaction—is just disas…