It’s a really difficult book to get into. The ranting narration can feel impenetrable, but once I got into it and could feel the depth of each of the main characters, it became my favorite book.

Dawkins is a gifted popular science author (I also liked The Ancestor’s Tale), but I found most of his writings about atheism didn’t quite get to the level others reach, with the exception of The Blind Watchmaker.

The pinned sections are the first thing necessary. This “blog roll into oblivion” is horrible and has made me click the site way less. I’ve gotta imagine most everyone feels this way.

ALSO, THIS PLACE SUCKS NOW.

My advice is to start drinking heavily.

SPOILER ALERT: Patton Oswalt’s special is just him standing on a stage, tweeting, as the entire AV Club staff conduct a circle jerk around him.

Well I’d steer clear of Disney entirely. They have a kennel of attack lawyers at their command.

As long as the booze isn’t a knock-off, I don’t see any problem with that.

It’s the most cheerfully worded cease-and-desist letter we’ve ever read

“Pregame” seems like something people have been saying for at least as long as I’ve been alive, and “Troll”’s new definition should have been added fifteen years ago.

Take me out for a nice lunch, maybe furtively slide a Kinder Surprise Egg across the table, it wouldn’t take much.

I never read his atheist stuff, but The Selfish Gene and (even more so) The Extended Phenotype were revelatory when I read them.

I recently found my old International Economics course book in the free book rack at a work. I would fear cracking open the tome; I would probably go instantly to sleep.

What a wonderful, weird journey these two paragraphs were.

I decided I wanted to spend some time really deep in a long read, so I decided to start on Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I’m not even 100 pages in yet, but there’s already a very feverish intensity to it- the feeling of someone going mad.

This is all fine and good, but was any of this shit really a milestone?

The Emmys, like all these other shitty awards shows, have always been a masturbation session for the entertainment industry.

Improvements that need to be made to the A.V. Club and Kinja to improve page views, bring back readers, and revive the community:

Doesn’t this seem like something you want to pin on the home page?

Nope. It still doesn’t work for me. And I’ve accepted that it never will.

Also, shouldn’t an announcement like this be pinned to the top of the page?