Nah, I think I can and did, cause she has definitively identified as such. Multiple times. So apparently they don't have a better handle. Cool appeal to authority though, bro.

Yes I understand what her feelings are within this episode, what I'm arguing is that it's very out of character for someone who grabbed the microphone during school elections and yelled "I believe man need not be governed!"

Yeah I've heard of that, though it seems so odd. He picked up a lot of first time fans from the Christian rock demos. Like even Bob fucking Dylan doesn't register until he's talking about Christ?

No one has to listen to every album by an artist, where'd you get that? I'm arguing Slow Train Coming and Shot of Love are among his best albums, and uniquely great. You're going to get something out of those albums you won't get out of Blood on the Tracks or Blonde on Blonde, as great as they are. I'm not…

Genuinely one of the greatest songs of his career, though I'm partial to the bootleg series version.

Agreed, I'm a big fan of the album generally, which hurts all the more for having the one and only Dylan song I can't physically listen to.

Honestly that whole period is pretty well-revered critically, where it got slagged off was the tours that became notorious for Dylan stopping performances and judgmentally lecturing his audience on accepting Jesus.

Matt Wild, you are out of your head not listening to Dylan's born again albums, and your reasoning is pretty ill informed (though I get where the sentiment comes from). The production value is much better than on something like Infidels or Empire Burlesque (which are solid, solid albums, but also guilty of 80s…

Yeah to be honest this has become grating to me as well. I don't even mind it being a generally upbeat show, but do they have to win with an extremely elegant solution every single time? They need a Mark Brendanawicz type counterbalance.

She's very clearly and unequivocally identified as an anarchist, the only way she's really wavers is in her commitment to action vs. being all talk. This is something the new head writers don't get about her character. Her politics are well-defined and better informed than they give her credit.

Britta's an anarchist, she wouldn't be ashamed in the slightest of not voting. Bizarre choice made by writers who don't understand that difference between radicals and progressives.

Haha, that moment after Phillip put down his gun and Gregory still had the audacity to kiss Elizabeth right in front of him cried out for a David Mitchell internal monologue.

I'd really like to see Spike Lee's take on that fucking Branch Ricky story of him shouting racial epithets at Jackie Robinson to see if he could "not fight back." Shit, some of these white announcers to this day fawn over the time a rich white guy taught a young black guy to sit there and take it, in a way that goes…

@avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus Haha, yeah it's not hard to see it that way, others generously say he was a romantic. *Cool story bro, alert* One of the highlights of a trip to Florence was the Santa Margherita de Cerchi, which in contrast to practically every other church in Italy is a real hole in…

Don't forget Chile…and Argentina…and Iraq. Christ, what an awfully busy and busily awful human being.

What's that you said about selective memory?

The U.S. media (and be fair, some of the U.K.) does this thing of assuming a neutral, objective tone while saying highly subjective things and sanitizing how deeply loathed these people were. E.g.:

Yes, it burrowed a hole in my brain for that very reason.

That works, cool.

I absolutely have, it's glorious! I never got a Mitchell and Webb dvd because fucking regions, did they actually do that for the menu background?