If nothing else, given that conspiracy theory is everywhere these days, the plot lines in the revived X-Files seemed hackneyed to me.

Exactly. I'm not arguing against the original '90s X-Files, because obviously none of the people behind it had a crystal ball or could foresee what kind of thinking it would beget in the real world. But I do question the wisdom of suddenly bringing the show back 14 years after it originally ended, in the middle of a…

The anti-vax elements in the plot were a particular low point for me too, but my comment had more to do with conspiracy theory in the broader sense. It's gotten so you can't have a reasonable conversation about anything anymore, whether it be vaccination or climate change or what happened on 9/11 or which country the…

The X-Files worked fine in the '90s, a time before every crank with DSL wired into his double-wide had the wherewithal to make his paranoid fantasies about chemtrails and the Mothman go viral. Now, in a world where anti-vax is a philosophy that flirts with mainstream acceptance, The X-Files just leaves you with the…

"You're actually going to claim that there's no implied threat in those words, especially the first sentence?"

1) "Issuing threats" - Let's recap, shall we? I told The New No. 2 never to call me racist again without a good reason. As I goddamned well should have. Not sure how you made the leap from that to "making threats". There was no "If you ever call me racist again I'll (fill in the blank)".

You gave up, huh? Can't say I blame you. I was starting to get embarrassed for you.

Seriously though, it was Theo, Vanessa, Rudy, and who else?

Hey, it's been a couple of decades, ok? I'm surprised I remembered Brooklyn Heights.

So following your logic, I'm doubling down on the racism and at the same time running scared from being labeled sexist? Am I reading that right? Because that sounds pretty ridiculous if so.

"Period" as in punctuation mark. I was using the talk-to-text feature on my phone and trying to be grammatically correct. As you can see, the comment has since been edited.

Ahh, the "-splain" suffix makes an appearance. Thank you for letting me know not to take you seriously before I wasted any more of my valuable time on you.

Wow, that went right over your head, didn't it? First off, "speak white" is a pretty well-known racist insult that's directed at people who speak dialectal English - it's not something I just made up; it's a rhetorical touchstone based on a real-life cliché. Secondly, all the racial suppositions you just accused me…

In retrospect, I see the Cosby Show as a sort of prelude to the moral highhorsery that Bill Cosby's post-Cosby Show, pre-Hannibal Buress career is best known for. Talking down to black people who he feels are beneath him. "You too could live in a luxurious brownstone in Brooklyn Heights with a beautiful wife and three…

It seems to me like a parody of the spy-movie genre as a whole, with a definite emphasis on the Bond franchise in particular.

Look, I know Mike Myers shot his career in the foot with "The Love Guru" and we all hate him now, but I have to protest the lack of any Austin Powers on this list. Come on, at least the first one.

There's no way B.o.B. is serious about this. This has got to be some kind of publicity stunt.

It would suck, therefore I wouldn't dance to it.

"So while we can’t tell you whether or not it’s okay to dance to 'Ignition (Remix)' given Kelly’s past"

Absolutely Fabulous… [dry heaves]