Gfs: Artistic merit is still a merit system. And that is a failed system as far as the American left is concerned at the moment.

pfr: "I watched the movie "Free State Of Jones" late last night..."

And that is, quite literally, not the half of it... meanwhile west of the Mississippi the Indian Nations were slave nations. They made treaty with the South and war on the North.

The Supreme Commander of the armies that conquered both was murdered... in a theater... by an entertainer... from the North.


As for Adele, 15 Grammys out of 18 noms. The collective wisdom of The Recording Academy membership is good enough for me.