Today’s comic is Gift shopping, Star Wars edition, by Jen Sorensen:
● Mandy Patinkin, AKA Inigo Montoya, does not appreciate Ted Cruz’ constant Princess Bride impressions, which he says miss the point of the movie:
“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote my favorite line?” That line, Mr. Patinkin said, was among the last his character utters in a movie that essentially taught that love conquers all.
● I guess Bill Cosby has concluded that people are going to keep talking about the enormous number of rape and sexual assault allegations against him, because this isn’t what you do if you hope something will go away if you ignore it: Cosby is suing seven women for defamation. Defamation as in, saying he assaulted them. Like dozens of other women have said. Would it be defamatory to say he’s a horrible human being?
● Self-described “doctrinaire leftist” Bhaskar Sunkara on the limits of niceness in Aziz Ansari's Master of None:
The rousing reception to the show’s 10 episodes tells us something good about the cultural sensibilities of its predominantly young audience. Among the target demographic of the show—the people advertisers call “millennials”— meanness and venality seem to be giving way to a progressive ethos. But Master of None serves as a case study of the limits of trying to make the world a less terrible place through a heaping dose of liberal niceness, without a broader political framework.
● Racism in retail: An industry-wide problem?
● Daily Kos will be covering yet another Republican presidential debate tonight. The JV candidates debate at 6 PM ET and the big names follow at 8:30. Both will be on CNN.
● On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The Trump scene worsens, other billionaires pout. Cruz keeps creeping. Carly & CARLY lead the way in defining campaign finance regulation out of existence. GunInstructorFAIL. Las Vegas Review-Journal becomes its own anonymous source.
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