Like most people with weekend plans and a little bit of sense, I didn't bother watching last Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner. The annual DC press event (mockingly referred to as Nerd Prom) has long struck me as squeamishly phony and awkward. The imagery of supposedly distinguished journalists belly-laughing at sophomoric political jokes, and stumbling over each other to take selfies with celebrity guests, just isn't appealing to me. Instead, I sat in a crowded movie theater with my family, and enjoyed the hell out of an opening-weekend screening of
Nerd Prom 2018: A Story of Meanness and Hypocrisy
Nerd Prom 2018: A Story of Meanness and…
Nerd Prom 2018: A Story of Meanness and Hypocrisy
Like most people with weekend plans and a little bit of sense, I didn't bother watching last Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner. The annual DC press event (mockingly referred to as Nerd Prom) has long struck me as squeamishly phony and awkward. The imagery of supposedly distinguished journalists belly-laughing at sophomoric political jokes, and stumbling over each other to take selfies with celebrity guests, just isn't appealing to me. Instead, I sat in a crowded movie theater with my family, and enjoyed the hell out of an opening-weekend screening of