On Step 3 of The Critical Drinker’s “How To Kill A Show” plan, I get the feeling Disney thinks Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness is not going to do well, and they need to get their excuses ready.

 

Marvel’s Victoria Alonso & Xochitl Gomez On Bringing Hope And Visibility To LGBTQ+ Community With America Chavez

Xochitl Gomez is shaking up the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her debut as LGBTQ+ Latina superhero America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, bringing with her the representation someone like Marvel’s Victoria Alonso would’ve relished seeing while growing up.

“What it would’ve meant is to have had a tad more understanding of the person that I was and that I was growing into being was not invisible,” Marvel exec and Doctor Strange 2 EP Alonso, who shares a 9-year-old daughter with designer wife Imelda Corcoran, told Deadline at the film’s premiere Monday night in Hollywood.

“I think visibility at any age is incredibly important whether you’re 10, 20, 30 or 80,” she continued. “To have your people and to have someone who says, ‘I am, and it’s OK. I am, and I am powerful. I am, and I belong.’ I think any young adult could have that today, [specifically] the 42 percent of LGBTQIA adults that consider suicide or those that do it, would probably think twice that maybe they’re OK [as they are]. My hope today is that—as a small gift from a bunch of filmmakers that want to tell great stories—if there are any kids out there thinking even minimally that their lives are not worth it, I can honestly tell you their lives are worth it and we will celebrate it with them.”

 

How can a person be expected to watch or read something that doesn’t represent them? I call for a boycott of anything that doesn’t feature a fat, diabetic failed writer whose love life is a crow pecking at roadkill. I demand to feel REPRESENTED.


 

Student Debt Cancellation Is Unfair. That Doesn’t Mean Biden Shouldn’t Do It.

On the face of it, canceling any student debt creates a class of winners, and no class of losers. After all, nothing happens to those unaffected, except that their local economies may be stimulated as former college debtholders will likely spend more on goods and services once they are permanently freed of their monthly debt payments. Perhaps there will be some downstream effects, like there will be for any addition to the national debt, like the possibility of higher taxes down the road or taxpayer dollars not being spent on other priorities. It might add to inflation, but most estimates suggest the impact would be relatively modest. But those effects are going to hit people whose debt has been canceled, too. They’re also taxpayers and participants in the economy. With some winners, no losers, and everyone affected similarly by future downstream effects, what is not to like?

 

Yup. No downsides whatsoever. No moral hazard. No addition to the tax burden of people who didn’t take out loans or paid them back. No reward to colleges for their fraud of selling useless degrees. Although, getting a philosophy grad to argue the case was a sly move on Slate’s part. Who knows more about overpaying for a useless degree than a Philosophy Ph.D. from Princeton?


 

Isaiah Lee, the guy who attacked Dave Chapelle. He got the full Altamont.