Wait, which 3-segment, non-Halloween episode are you saying was great? I can't recall which of those was the first - Bible stories?

I also thought this was amusing. And then I remembered my VHS tape of the Voyager episode 'Spirit Folk' on which I had written in bold letters 'DO NOT WATCH'. And I bowed my head in shame.

No, but you are a terrible person.

"Just based on that, isn’t this the kind of step we’ve been wanting Hollywood to take?"

I was just recently telling a friend, who's a few years younger than me and had never heard of it despite being an avid gamer, about this show. We then watched that episode. She seemed dazed and kept repeating, 'I can't believe this actually exists'.

Yes! That is a great instrumental break there.

I basically don't listen to any music from later than the early 1970s, but I must say, I have heard a handful of Belle & Sebastian songs that I actually enjoyed.

As popular as 'Nights in White Satin' is, that album is criminally underrated by the rock intelligentsia.

My goodness, how I love this album. It's one of the musical highlights of 1967, and for a year that also saw Sgt. Pepper, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Surrealistic Pillow, Days of Future Passed, Odessey & Oracle, Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced?, and Strange Days, among plenty of others, that's saying…

We had one "security guard" at my high school. He was an elderly man who just kind of wandered the hallways aimlessly. If not for the avowal of the administrators that he was, in fact, our security guard, I would have thought he had wandered in from the nursing home down the street.

Well, yeah; to put it most broadly, if over-simplistically, the progressives had already abandoned the Republicans, but the conservatives had not yet abandoned the Democrats.

Well, that's more or less what I would expect, hence my 'morbid' curiosity. I certainly have no illusions that they're good, or even decent, movies.

I can see that, especially since he doesn't talk in Testament, outside of that creepy whispering scene. Klein-Rogge is probably my favorite silent actor, and one of my favorite actors of all time. A pity he was a Nazi…

There was also a lot of good stuff in the New Freedom programs. The credit for which shouldn't all go to Wilson, granted; but 'Wilson = awful' is overly simplistic. (Don't get me wrong, though, I probably would have voted for Roosevelt. Or maybe just put me down for 'anybody but Taft'.)

Yeah, it was that strange time after the African American vote had switched to the Democrats but before southern whites, still fuming over their slaves being taken away, had switched to the Republicans. The New Deal coalition!

Personally, I'd reverse that. But Der Spieler certainly is a thrilling film.

I like Thaddeus Stevens (and the Radical Republicans were definitely the good guys of Reconstruction era politics), but didn't he also have a period where he was with the nativist American Party (the 'Know Nothings')? Also, though I think Andrew Johnson was terrible, he really had done nothing justifying impeachment,…

Several people have mentioned Orcs being corrupted Elves. It should perhaps be noted that this is far from clear. The idea does appear, I believe in the 1937 Quenta Silmarillion, but only in an ambiguous 'it is said by some…' way. Later, Tolkien wrestled with the origin of Orcs and his ideas ranged from corrupted…

Grant gets my vote for most underrated president. What with the horrible racism of the segregation era, it's easy to forget how committed the Radical Republicans were to civil rights way back in the 1860s and 1870s. It also kind of makes the whole 'what do you expect, [name] was a product of his times' excuse for…

I'm pretty sure I would have been a big Jackson supporter in 1824 and 1828 (Populism! Down with the central bank! Abolish the electoral college!), then become thoroughly disillusioned with him and become a lifelong Whig. I possibly would have felt as miserable when he was re-elected in 1832 as I did when Bush was…