This sounds like that Paycheck movie where Ben Affleck needed to get his paycheck, or his paycheck got him, or… I don't know. I didn't see that movie. Was it good?

We are? I'm consuming the wrong media, I guess. And if we are in that phase, maybe this would be a great time for a satire.

If he could make the past change, then that would be impressive.

Wrongful? Didn't you know that Jackie Kennedy was supposed to die instead?

I only watched the first two seasons, but Mad Men inspired me to read some Frank O'Hara poems. They weren't bad.

Whenever I see "memoirs" in print, I pronounce it to myself like Malkovich does in Burn After Reading. It makes life just a little bit funnier.

By coincidence, I am currently reading The Propheteers, Max Apple's novel, in part, about Howard Johnson. It's good stuff.

Any combination of those people—Coulier and Saget, Coulier and Cameron, Coulier and Coulier. I mean any combination.

Bob Saget gets his family back together…

The Aristocrats!

That's a great term. A lot of 19th-cent. literature involves people suffering because they think they can transcend social forces. A lot of Thomas Hardy, especially Jude the Obscure, qualifies as "Tragedy of Manners." The James novel, Roderick Hudson, is a good one, too.

The stock line for what lawyers do—"zealously advocate for our clients"—is something that comes more naturally to Jimmy/Saul than it does to people like Hamlin or probably even Chuck. It's not enough to get you rich or respected, but doing everything you can for your clients, within the confines of the law, is an…

If the article's not in the form of the Yeats poem, don't use "the second coming" in your headline. You established this precedent, O'Neal.

Not counting the mezzanine.

Okay. It seems he told stupid offensive jokes a few years ago and now he's the host of a TV show, where his jokes will probably be funnier and not offensive. The Daily Show isn't some public office. Hosts don't need to be vetted. I was very confused.

It would be the most Salon thing ever if they re-posted the essay illustrated, for no reason, with a picture of Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachmann, and Rand Paul

Having just emerged from a couple days away from Twitter, I'm not sure what's going on. So the new host of The Daily Show made offensive jokes on Twitter three years ago, and now people don't want him to host anymore? Or are people just pointing out that he made offensive jokes three years ago? What's the controversy?…

Norm just uses to Twitter to live-tweet golf. He goes on and on, losing followers, and then makes a funny joke a few days later that brings everyone back. As far as I can tell, that's how you're supposed to use Twitter.

Someone needs to unplug the Internet and plug it back in. It's not working right.

Agreed. It's more a bummer than anything, but I also can't help feeling that Moss, Beck, etc. are being held hostage. It's more than just beliefs, I think.

I never understood why people dislike or boycott an artist because he or she is a Scientologist. They are as much victims of the Church as any of its other members. We can't disapprove of the way the CoS controls its members, and yet blame the members for getting controlled, even if they wield a certain amount of…