A retired Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry is deeply concerned by Donald Trump‘s latest remarks during an interview with Glenn Beck where the former president flat out admitted he’d try to lock up Joe Biden if he wins the 2024 election.
“Do you regret not locking [Hillary Clinton] up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?” Beck asked Trump, who replied. “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.”
That response did not sit well with Dr. Lance Dodes who didn’t hesitate to label Trump a “psychopath” while talking to Salon:
Trump’s latest threats to place opponents in jail, including President Biden, fit with the limitless nature of psychopaths. Lacking a conscience or morality to limit his sadism, and believing in his worth above all others, leads Trump to think he has the right to destroy anyone who does not submit to him. Without the innate capacity for empathy toward others and a sense of right and wrong, Trump is an extreme outlier in human psychology.
Dodes also had harsh words for Trump supporters, who are entirely responsible for his rise to power.
“There are clearly enough vulnerable people for whom the wish for a self-styled strong man leader is powerful enough to overcome rational evidence against it,” Dodes said. “This may be due to naivete based on denial of the sadism in others, rage at personal unfairness that overwhelms normal concerns for others, or simply enough dishonesty and immorality to go along with a malignant leader. They are easy prey for the Big Lie as practiced by tyrants like Trump.”
While accepting the Ebert Director Award at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, the director gave special acknowledgement to late movie critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz, who presented the award with Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins. “Your husband was very crucial [in] my career. He was very crucial, 1989 in Cannes, to Do the Right Thing,” Lee said. “Your husband got behind me because there was motherf*ckers, excuse my language, in the press saying that Do the Right Thing was gonna incite Black people to riot, that this film should not be shown in the United States.”
“I remember, I know it was a long time ago and you should let some grudges go, but David Denby and Joe Klein wrote articles, New York magazine saying, ‘Hope to God that this film does not open in your neighborhood.’ That this film, Do the Right Thing, will incite Black people to tear sh*t up, to take to the streets like Detroit in ’77 or Newark in 1968. So thank you everyone. Thank Roger because he went to bat for me and many years later, we’re on the right side of history/herstory. Thank you very much.”
Entertainment Weekly reached out to Denby, who said that his review was “not a pan,” that it was “generous and alive,” and he only “objected to something at the end, but I didn’t say the movie was going to start riots.”
There should have been riots when Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture and Do the Right Thing wasn’t even nominated.
Tristan Thompson is returning to where his NBA journey started, as the former No. 4 overall pick of the Cavaliers is finalizing a contract to bring him back to Cleveland, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.
C/F Tristan Thompson is finalizing a deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers, CEO of Klutch Sports Rich Paul told @TheAthletic@Stadium. Thompson is set to return to Cleveland where he was part of 2016 NBA title, four Finals runs, now gives Cavs leadership and some frontcourt depth. pic.twitter.com/ayKEu3JOj1
Thompson spent the first nine seasons of his career in Cleveland, including playing a big role on the title team from 2016. Since leaving the Cavs in 2020, Thompson made stops in Boston, Sacramento, Chicago, and Indiana before spending most of last season as an analyst for ESPN. However, the big man signed late in the year with the Los Angeles Lakers, reuniting with LeBron James, and appeared in six games, including some surprisingly key minutes against Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals.
At this point in his career, Thompson is not someone you rely on for consistent production and a real part of the rotation, but he’s capable of spot minutes and, for a Cavs team with a promising young frontcourt, his value will mostly be what he does behind the scenes. Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley had a rough playoff series against the Knicks last year, where Mitchell Robinson and Isaiah Hartenstein dominated the glass to help New York roll through the Cavs in five games. Thompson can bring some firsthand knowledge of what is required come playoff time from big men, particularly in how to impact a game positively when you aren’t necessarily the focal point of the offense playing with high-scoring perimeter players. That is more of what this signing is about than Thompson providing a big lift on the floor, but for this particular Cavs team, a veteran that can instill a bit more toughness and the right mentality in their bigs would be a welcome addition.
We know fall is around the corner when Oktoberfest beers start landing on shelves. When you see the term printed on a beer bottle or can in the US, it’s usually referring to Märzens or Märzen-style lagers and pegged to Germany’s famed Oktoberfest celebrations, which start this week in Munich. This style is often coppery in color and features a nice mix of caramel malts, floral hops, and a dry, crisp finish. A savvy beer lover will also notice “festbiers” on shelves. These golden-hued German lagers are malty, refreshing, and have a nice dry, gently spicy finish of floral, Noble hops.
Both are perfect for this summer-fall transition.
To find the best Oktoberfest brews for 2023, we went to the source. We asked a few well-known craft beer experts and brewers to tell us about their picks for the one Oktoberfest beer they look forward to each year. Keep scrolling to see them all.
I’m a festbier lover, as the lighter of the Oktoberfest styles is simply more appealing. And since Rothaus is the producer of the most impressive pilsner in all of the world, it makes sense that their Eis Zapfle is just as glorious. Clearly labeled a marzen on the package, that is simply not true, as it’s a light golden yellow color with brilliant, sparkling clarity with a playful, bone white head.
Tasting Notes:
This beer is extremely drinkable with inviting notes of soft biscuits, bread dough, and a touch of herbal hops. The alcohol is slightly elevated from a typical Helles, the bitterness is only enough to keep the beer from expressing sweetness, especially in the finish. You’ll want to do yourself a favor and find this beer.
Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest Festbier. Recently, Sierra Nevada has been pairing with a classic German Brewery each year to bring us a new Oktoberfest collaboration. Unlike a lot of the American Oktoberfest beers which tend to be overly sweet, the Sierra Nevada collaborations are very true to the German originals.
Tasting Notes:
It’s known for its nice malt sweetness but has a nutty backbone and a very fresh, crisp finish. It reminds me of Oktoberfest in Munich.
von Trapp Brewing’s Oktoberfest. This annual fall favorite comes from the Vermont-based brewery founded by members of the actual von Trapp family, the inspiration for ‘The Sound of Music’.
Tasting Notes:
It has nice bread, caramel, and toffee flavors with a smooth body. All in all, it’s a classic fall beer.
Spaten Oktoberfest is widely considered the OG and readily available in the States. It’s one of the five breweries that are included in the actual Oktoberfest in Munich.
Tasting Notes:
It has those toasty and biscuity malt notes you want coupled with a nice citrus undertone from the hops, it is exactly what you want from the style.
In Germany, Oktoberfestbier can be produced by five brewers. And I like to drink classic. While other classic brewers have dumbed down their products producing ‘modern golden Festbier,’ the Oktoberfest Märzen beer brewed by Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH in Munich, Bavaria has continued to produce theirs in the more traditional amber Oktoberfest Marzen style.
Tasting Notes:
It’s just a wonderful beer to drink. Malty with a toasty biscuit-y quality that’s never cloying or overly sweet joined by a kiss of noble German hops.
Not a style I typically seek out, I do have a soft spot for Gordon Biersch Marzen. I went to college and came of age in the South Bay Area, so Gordon Biersch was readily available everywhere.
Tasting Notes:
It was one of my first forays into craft beer and I will never forget that slightly amber, slightly malty, slightly hoppy beer.
My favorite Marzen comes from the legendary Aecht Schlenkerla brewery in Bamberg Germany. It is not a beer for everyone’s taste buds, but for those who get this beer – it is an experience that will forever change their drinking universe. There is not another ‘Oktoberfest’ beer like this one out there. Brewed with beech wood smoked malt it is reputed to be the original Rauchbier (smoked beer).
Tasting Notes:
It has a dark amber color and has the flavor of rich dark bread and roasting meat over a summer campfire. The bottom fermented yeast leaves only a slight impression which allows the clean sharp bitterness to back up the rich smoky flavor and aroma. One’s first sip may overpower them, but the second sip invites yet another and by the bottom of the first half liter you will be excited for the next one, because you know it is going to taste even better than your first glass.
I often prefer pale festbier to marzen, but I do enjoy both. That said, Ayinger’s Marzen is something special.
Tasting Notes:
The nose smells like a wonderful mash kettle and just invites you into the malty goodness flavor of that beer. It separates itself from the other solid imported Marzen.
New Glarus Staghorn
New Glarus
Garth Beyer, certified Cicerone and owner of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
I’m showing my Wisconsin-pride with this pick. While I enjoy trying a variety of Oktoberfest-style beers each year, my fridge almost always has a six-pack of New Glarus’s Staghorn.
Tasting Notes:
It’s clean and crisp with a smooth amber, sweet biscuit flavor. The finishing flavor is all-spice, but it’s so obviously clean that you’re tasting pure hop and malt notes rather than adjuncts. These taste traditional. And I’ll tell you, the six-pack doesn’t last long.
3 Floyds Munsterfest
3 Floyds
Frederic Yarm, USB bartender at Josephine in Somerville, Massachusetts
3 Floyds Brewing’s Munsterfest is one of my favorite American-made Märzen-style Festbiers. 3 Floyds makes the effort to source the malted barley from Germany, noble hops from Bavaria, and a lager yeast appropriate to the style, yet they put their own unique spin on it.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a depth of flavor in this malty beer with brown bread, toffee, and brown sugar notes.
The so-called “Drake Curse” may have a less consistent hit-to-miss ratio than its namesake, but when it does hit, it hits HARD. This is especially when the target is Drake’s pocketbook, which is a half-million bucks lighter thanks to the big bet he placed on Israel Adesanya’s UFC 293 match against Sean Strickland. Drake shared his bet — courtesy, as always, of Stak, with which the rapper signed a $100 million/year endorsement deal in 2022 — on Instagram, boasting the potential $920k payout it would have netted with a win.
Unfortunately for both Drake and Adesanya, the Kiwi kickboxer was upset by Strickland on a 49-46 judges’ decision. Adesanya’s MMA record now stands at 24-3, delivering just his second loss by judges’ decision. He also lost the UFC Middleweight Championship belt.
Meanwhile, the Drake Curse has a more inconsistent record; in June, Drake won over $2 million backing the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals after losing around $350,000 betting on the University of Connecticut in the NCAA National Tournament. Meanwhile, his bet on Argentina in the 2022 FIFA World Cup paid out $2,750,000 on a million-dollar bet. You know what they say: You win some, you lose some. Drake’s seen things play out both ways in his betting career, but this writer would be willing to bet that things turn around for both him and Adesanya before too long.
Even if you didn’t watch a single episode of Stranger Things, everyone remembers that episode from season four that inspired at least 76 TikTok trends, spawned several dozen memes, and introduced “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” to Gen Z. “Dear Billy” was the fourth episode (can it really be called an “episode” at 78 minutes?) in the already jam-packed season of the show which sparked all of the praise for Sadie Sink, and even managed to earn some Emmy noms. And it was directed by none other than Shawn Levy, so it would make sense that the man comes back for the fifth and final season, right?
Levy told Collider that he expects to be back to direct at least one episode in the upcoming season, as he has done with every season before. He explained, “I believe for that show, I’ve been alongside Matt and Ross Duffer for all these years. I direct episodes every year. It’s a part of our brotherhood,” he said. Levy has directed eight episodes of the series so far.
The director added that he will do what it takes in order to destroy Vecna and direct another episode.”It’s a part of my commitment and my love of the show, connecting with it as a director, as well as an executive producer, so I will go through hoops to figure out calendars to direct at least one episode,” he explained.
While no updates have been given regarding the fifth season of Stranger Things, the Duffer bros announced that shooting would be postponed due to the ongoing strikes, so it might be a while before Levy gets to dust off his director’s chair.
Rudy Giuliani was namedTime magazine’s Person of the Year in 2001 for being a “Tower of Strength” following the attacks on September 11th. He was America’s Mayor, someone who gave us permission to laugh again on Saturday Night Live. But 22 years later, he’s a sweaty mess with a depressed mugshot on the brink of financial ruin, and the only news network that’s willing to talk to him on 9/11 is Newsmax.
This morning, Giuliani retraced his steps on September 11, 2001, during a segment with the conservative-friendly network. “Obviously we’re walking faster than this trying to get there,” he said. “Up to this point, it was still an emergency. It hadn’t become an out of body experience.” If this segment had taken place 20, 15, even 10 years ago, Giuliani would have been surrounded by New Yorkers thanking him on the streets. But now, crickets.
Trump co-defendant Rudy Giuliani has fallen so far that Newsmax is the only network that will talk to the man who was New York City’s mayor on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/04s3w5qvvo
Giuliani also joined Sebastian Gorka on something called the Salem News Channel (I wouldn’t recommend checking out the website, unless you’re looking to get a computer virus).
Rudy is no longer America’s favorite mayor — but he is America’s most arrested MyPillow promo code provider. “Great products, including slippers, towels and sheets. Use Code Rudy for additional savings,” Giuliani recently tweeted, along with a fall-themed image for Mike Lindell’s crumbling pillow empire. You can pay for Rudy’s legal fees with all the money you’re saving!
After Drew Barrymore kicked off a firestorm with the Writers Guild of America by announcing that her talk show would resume taping on Monday, the situation got even worse as pleas to honor the writers’ strike were ignored.
As The Drew Barrymore Show started taping new episodes for a September 18 premiere, WGA East members picketed outside CBS studios. While Barrymore is not violating SAG-AFTRA rules, the work on the show does “violate WGA strike rules,” according to a statement from the guild. The situation devolved when the talk show not only ignored the warning, but actively removed two members from the audience who were wearing WGA pins.
“Went to @DrewBarrymoreTV after winning tickets, unaware of the #WGA strike,” Dominic Turiczek tweeted. “We took pins & went in, got kicked out, & verbally assaulted by @DrewBarrymore’s crew. It’s clear they don’t support #WGAStrong, writers or fans! #DrewTheRightThing So we took shirts and joined. F*ck that.”
Turiczek later clarified, “We knew about the #WGA strike, just not that they were picketing at Drew’s show. We were unaware until inside, that her show had WGA writers, thus crossing picket lines by starting again. We won the tickets last minute and didn’t do enough research, clearly.”
The news of The Drew Barrymore Show booting audience members for wearing WGA pins quickly spread, and a spokesperson has since released a statement to Variety regretting the incident.
“It is our policy to welcome everyone to our show tapings,” the statement said. “Due to heightened security concerns today, we regret that two audience members were not permitted to attend or were not allowed access. Drew was completely unaware of the incident and we are in the process of reaching out to the affected audience members to offer them new tickets.”
Over the weekend, it was reported that Grimes and Elon Musk had another child together that they had not told the world about. That begs the question: How many children to Musk and Grimes have with each other?
Grimes addressed Techno in a X (formerly Twitter) post yesterday (September 10), writing, “I wish I could show u how cute little Techno is [alien emoji] but my priority rn is keeping my babies out of the public eye, Plz respect that at this time [folded hands emoji].”
In the same tweet, Grimes wrote about supposed beef with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, with whom Musk recently had a set of twins. Grimes wrote, “I spoke with Shivon at length finally, which was long overdue. This wasn’t her fault, plz don’t be angry at her! We respect each other a lot and we’re excited to become friends and have the kids grow up together. […] Women are so often pitted against each other. Speaking with Shivon, it’s very evident she’s an amazing human and we both just want what’s best for our kids.”
(Obviously, spoilers about Daryl Dixon will be found below.)
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (which is truly a “big ass kicker”) had a special treat for fans of the most chronically unwashed character of the bunch. Daryl also happens to be one of the show’s most crushed-on characters, which sounds like a paradox, but hey, consider that there should be priorities during an apocalypse, and not everyone would look as sweat-free as Rosita and Maggie and, well, almost everyone else on the show. As Dustin Rowles once summed up, “Daryl is the only character on this show that actually LOOKS like he lives in the zombie apocalypse.” Dustin also hypothesized that “maybe his hair grease is how he’s fueling his motorcycle these days.”
The hair-grease detail remains a strong theory, even as Daryl emerged from the ocean in France without immediately realizing how he got there and looking as grubby as ever. In the debut episode of his solo spinoff, he was trolled as a “noob” for not knowing the language, and he retains his mostly stoic Daryl Dixon persona (while remaining an occasionally big softie underneath it all). Once he found himself at a convent, and the nuns (who were not sadistic after all) cured his burner-bite, the unwashed boo did something that we’ve never seen him do before now: Take A Bath.
There’s been quite the debate on Reddit at how often Daryl really showered on all eleven seasons of The Walking Dead, or if anyone truly noticed or cared when there were rotting, foul Walkers all over the place. I think it’s generally assumed that Daryl at least washed his bod during Season 1 at the CDC, but they never showed it happening, so you never know.
Regardless of whether this was only Daryl’s first or second bath since the apocalypse began, people were here for it. They enjoyed the heck out of this “character development” and then some.
AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon airs on Sunday nights.
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