Every year around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, I get annoyed. I love that we celebrate the life and work of Dr. King, but I hate that his image is reduced into something that it wasn’t. He becomes cuddly Dr. King, a representative for peace and love that never made any white person uncomfortable. America was racist, Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and racism was over. That kind of childish view is why a documentary like Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI is so essential. It shows King as a political actor working …

Last night’s episode of Rick and Morty brought us back to more familiar territory, with the titular drunk maniac and his titular vacuous grandson trapped on an alien planet in which face-sucking parasites alter their minds into thinking Summer is a queen. Yeah, that’s a whole lot to absorb, but when compared to last week’s episode, which was literally about series co-creator Dan Harmon’s writing process, this was a breath of egg-farting fresh air. I promise that analogy will make sense once you’ve watched the episode. In case that wasn’t a …