Perfectly natural? Sure. Mature? Civil? Evolved? Not even a little bit. The high road? That would have been a good place to travel. Again, the lack of humanity in our political discourse is precisely what ails it. But feel free to gloat. It's your right. And Americans do love to be "right," even if they fail to…

This is the kind of shit that's tearing America apart. It has nothing to do with our politicians, but everything to do with our inability to acknowledge the humanity of those who disagree with us. Not everything exists in a binary state. In fact, most things don't. And our collective smugness and lack of empathy as a…

Fuck EVERY American institution that normalized Trump and his despicable behavior, as if he was just some goofy party crasher who should not only be tolerated, but elevated onto the same stage as flawed but serious-minded candidates.

Frankly, this is a good test of American resolve, as well as the mechanics of its democracy. The people do have recourse. They can protest. Loudly. And they should. But will they? They can vote with a mighty hand in 2018. Loudly. And they should. But will they?

The story of this election is certainly going to make for an interesting movie someday…

Perhaps it will be. But in these strange times, I'd also offer that it could be much more pedestrian than that. Donald Trump is as unqualified a presidential candidate as history has encountered in quite some time. He's never held public office in his life. He's never had to "work hard," in the traditional sense of…

Indeed. It is all kinds of awful. But this too shall pass. Voters have startlingly short memories, after all (for better and worse). Whatever objections they have to the Democrats will likely fade the further we get into a disastrous Trump presidency.

Man… I was embarrassed of America during the Bush years, but I never imagined that I'd be outright ashamed of my country the way I am tonight. :-(

It's not really clear to me that Dolores IS the focal point of Williams' storyline. Her behavior within that storyline is certainly interesting, but I'm not sure how our understanding of the character's evolution would be enhanced by the reveal of a second timeline, especially given that we've just seen Maeve achieve…

I thought this was perhaps the best episode of 'Westworld' since the pilot. Watching Maeve slowly achieve self-awareness was so thrilling to me. For all the stories of AI depicted on-screen across the last several decades, Maeve's movement towards understanding who and what she is feels among the best-developed. This…

Westworld clearly takes some of its inspiration from open world video games, where immersion is often dependent on NPC routines and scripted events occurring even when the player character isn't present. It doesn't strike me as a coincidence that the most advanced "player" in Westworld has repeatedly referred to the…