I went “Into the Storm” for six hours and couldn’t wait to get out — now you don’t have to.
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched the HBO docuseries Q: Into the Storm and want to, you may want to stop reading this. It contains spoilers.
I just finished filmmaker Cullen Hoback’s six-part HBO docuseries “Q: Into the Storm” about the bizarre QAnon conspiracy. Now you don’t have to. Its believers are convinced Tom Hanks and other prominent liberals are kidnapping children and drinking their blood minus any actual evidence.
I attempted a second viewing for this article but couldn’t stomach spending one more minute with the characters that make up this docuseries. …
No, we do not have to believe all women.
The Me Too movement ushed in a much-needed discussion about sexual abuse and sexual harassment. It gave women a public space to talk about allegations of sex crimes, especially at the hands of powerful men. Yes. Most women do not lie about sexual abuse or rape. That isn’t a thing. Many women face the terrible decision to come forward when they know they won’t be believed. They will most likely be shamed, treated like a criminal, have to go through humiliating tests, they are disregarded and dismissed most of the time. The Me Too movement changed those dated reactions and…
What a difference an administration makes.
Joe Biden was my fourth choice for President. OK, my sixth. I wanted a woman. Goddammit. Or Julian Castro. After 2016, as the world watched, democratic countries shook their collective head at us, as they should have. Our misogyny on full display and out in the open towards the female candidate. In 2016, the threat of another Clinton was just too much for the right to handle. So much that they got into bed with Russians, looked the other way, denied cyberattacks and interference. The thought of tax increases for the rich, balanced budgets with surpluses, and government-subsidized healthcare had…
What it’s like to live in America for those left behind.
Nomadland will mostly walk away with at least one Globe this Sunday. If not more. Not only is it well-acted and beautiful to look at, but it also paints an accurate picture of the American dream for most people in this country after they’ve worked for 40 years plus in a minimum wage job — nothing. And sometimes, still have to enter the gig economy in their retirement years just to afford to eat.
Nomadland is based on the book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” by Jessica Buder, a journalist who writes about subculture. She spent months living…
Because I don’t believe Mia Farrow.
Woody Allen is one of my favorite directors. I studied his films in college, have seen Annie Hall more than 25 times as well as Manhattan and Crimes and Misdemeanors. Annie Hall and Crime and Misdemeanors are near-perfect films. I don’t think there is a Woody Allen film I haven’t seen several times. The name I gave my daughter came from one of the characters in one of his films.
These reasons aren’t why I have my doubts about the sexual abuse allegations against him.
At the time of the famous Allen v. Farrow custody battle in the early 1990s…
Texas could use some regulation.
Senator Ted Cruz seems confused about what constitutes “hypocrisy” and what doesn’t. His recent tropical getaway to Cancún only two days into his state’s power and water crisis left even his friends aghast, striking an even lower bar for Cruz when the bar is pretty low already.
Cruz attacked Democrat Mayor Stephen Adler of Austin not too long ago in December for taking a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, while telling his constituents to “stay home” during the pandemic.
This week Cruz took a trip to Cancún, Mexico, at the start of a severe state weather crisis on top…
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