I think this might be worth a re-review now that the body of work is complete. I’d rate this much much higher than a B-. The scene where Britta’s getting whupped while Troy and she cry, and Jeff and Pierce’s ex-step-daughter burst through the door is absolutely one of my all-time favorites.

If you liked this story you might look up the story of how Amazon spent years and years suing/negotiating the holy hell out of a previously long-existing bookstore in Minneapolis called “Amazon” for its specializations in feminist and LGBT themes.

Remember when this was satire less than 5 years ago?

I’m disappointed you failed to address the probability that the hissed-S sounds come from them secretly being lizard people. That is at least as likely as half the bullshit they say.

To paraphrase Lenin, Whiteboxdating definitely sounds like the kind of capitalist company that would sell you the rope to hang yourself (auto-erotically) with.

I found it particularly amusing that they would continue to track you and then contact the local bishop in wherever you moved to to warn them you were a bad seed and not to be allowed in the local temple for any reason.

Honestly, I’m going to name Woodrow Wilson as our worst former president. While Pierce sucked, he did not manage to single-handedly catapault America backwards 60 years in race relations, *re*-segregated federal service, abandoned America’s isolationist foreign policy, forcing us to become a super-in-debt superpower…

Hint: Opposite the H.R. Pufnstuf memorial

Everyone gets a stamp these days. Y’know what I’d love to see? A line of stamps dedicated to bullshit urban legends about Mr. Rogers. Using the power of imagination imagine sending out your christmas cards and thank-you letters for 2018 stamped with one of the following:

There are classy dates poor people can go on. I’m quite familiar with them, what with being a grad student and all. But they generally require some amount of knowledge, research, and pre-planning.

Shaun White’s target demographic does tend to involve truly heroic amounts of THC. I have a suspicion that long term memory and the ability to follow through about terrible things done by their hero is just not in the cards. It’s like expecting literacy from a president.

You’ve got to be medal-of-honor level brave/stupid to marry into that toxic gene pool o’ classy drama.

And sometimes it’s just flat out stupid.

Y’know, this reminds me a lot of NCAA rules and proceedings. Generally, the rules apply to the extent that the school and the athlete feel like it except in such case that rules violations become messily public in which case all rules violations shall suddenly be considered as violations.

Bill Cassidy is a special example. He’s a very bright guy who just happens to be somewhat flexible when it comes to his belief systems. He made good money with some ethically questionable investments (see: post oil spill revelations), and understands that if he wanted to be a senator he needed to join the Republican…

The Enterprise showing up was a blatant flat out begging plea for people to give them another chance for season 2. Gee, any bets on how maybe Number One ends up as the new captain of Discovery? They went out of their way to remind us Saru is only ‘acting captain.’ I guess stopping Burnham and saving the crew isn’t…

Holy. Shit.

I found it interesting that you *almost* wrote out the best possible summary of the show but I think your affection for Elizabeth let it slip just barely past your notice.

I’m glad that the cast paid a gruesome toll for the gruesome toll they inflicted on the world. Now if only that was mandatory for ALL reality TV shows... MMm, god, I’m just imagining the casts of RWOBH or Jersey Shore suffering in equal proportion to the shit they’ve spackled across the world’s psyche.

I will always love the job he did in “Say Anything.” The way he and John Cusack played off one another stands the test of time. I can’t imagine anyone else pulling that off today.