#rilaws

I blame Legos, for hubristically asserting just six years ago that everything is awesome— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) March 17, 2020

The only show that’s really comparable to House of Cards’ careful, diligent thoroughness is Breaking Bad, a series that was great for many reasons, not least among them that it never forgot its own history. That’s a key factor in determining a show’s Greatness: Does it remember where it’s been? Even if the show is otherwise wobbly and inconsistent, like Dexter, a sharp sense of recall, a constant vigilance over loose ends, can turn something entertaining into an experience that’s vital and wholly rewarding. No show is doing that better than House of Cards right now.

Miley Cyrus is a shame to proper women, who spend their days dressed in bonnets and thick wool dresses, sitting on bundles of hard sticks with their feet in buckets of ice water. That is how a woman is supposed to be! Not this Miley Cyrus flashing stuff. How dare she. It’s almost as if she is encouraged when people get upset with her, as if she feeds off the negative attention and shrill, brittle finger-pointing. What sort of demon has willed itself into her? Girls her age should be pregnant with their sixth child and digging root vegetables out of the stony, cold Massachusetts earth right now.

Anyway, the outrage storm continues, as we are still a nation that, deep in our Puritan hearts, hates the wicked dance.

I think we can all agree that certain people should be shaken down, and Sean Parker is one of them. Building a g.d. LARPing set in the middle of protected nature. The silliest. "I want to pretend we're in fake olden times, so let me ruin these beautiful woods." Nope. Sorry, son. You do not get to be that silly without paying $2.5 million to some made-up environmental agency. Everyone's gotta scratch everyone else's back if there's that much silliness involved. It's the way of the capitalist world.