When you write "because only the wealthy would sail with him," I think you MEAN to say "because the wealthy only sailed with him," or "because they wealthy always wanted to sail with him." presumably, the very poor didn't care who their captain was as long as he could get them across (which Smith did well, with this…

I really liked this episode (and every one this season, thanks for doing recaps, Charlie!) What I find so captivating is that the show is willing to let people stay in grey places and make bad choices even if they are "good people." Dr. Rosen is Sooooooooo manipulative, and they are totally right to be pissed about…

I know! Thank goodness for the coffee shops around me. When I got downgraded in the recession, they let me continue to network electronically. If people could afford home internet, most of them wouldn't be out at these coffee shops.

You're right, because then when someone has an actually important call in the 500 meter radius of your self-righteous ass, they won't be able to. Great idea. We should totally remove communication to a huge amount of people because you have been slightly inconvenienced. You are in no way being a massive hypocrite.

Let me slightly disagree here. Yes, freeloading for a long time is bad. But when I go to a coffee shop, I expect to find people like this because that is what a coffee shop is. I don't walk into a bar and get angry that there's a drunk there. And many of them are working and patronizing the establishment at the…

Do you mean "had I written it?" Maybe you should ask the hipster novelists for grammar advice.

Ditto. Love Charlie, love, the site, NEED ALPHAS RECAP! I'm sorry, I don't know why I Hulked out back there...

Dammit it! That was supposed to be off the record!

"Dangerous nonsense" is a good way of putting it. What bugs me is that people say "It's natural!" As if being natural was always healthy. Do these folks realize that most people "naturally" die at about 30/35, but that things like hand soap and sanitation have more than doubled our life expectancy? Ugh.

The Gerson Treatment is illegal to market as medically beneficial, because every time anyone has tested it it ends with almost all of the patients being dead. However, the Therepy itself is not illegal. But, yeah, this is dangerous misinformation. Jest because something is Natural does not mean it is Healthy. For…

Can I say that I don't understand why people talk fondly of the 90's Starship Troopers? It was a movie that seemed to totally miss the underlying message of the excellent novel. Any remake of that is a welcome sound to my ears.

What I find pretty interesting is that with Sprint I can get truly unlimited Data for about $80 without having to worry about all this, and I have unlimited talk time to any other cell phone (the only people I call nowadays anyway) and unlimited texts. And they don't put as many limits on my phones software as AT&T…

Exactly! I love the RCA dog! Instead, now they have those ugly 80's block letters.

Umm, I virtually NEVER see an Android phone above $200, but the highest model iPhone is something like $400. So, yeah...how is that cheaper?

What I see here is that 3 versions of Android take up 92% of the market share. Discount the oldest, and you still have 75% on one of the two most recent versions. Yes, I wish ICS were spread more, but it was a MAJOR overhaul of the OS, so it makes sense not to force it on people. See how the iPhone 3G was nearly…