East there, @twitter-344763042:disqus it's a tough week for Greenwald-hating Obama partisans:

The job he did on putting together a narrative for the strikes on Anwar and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki should go down as one of the great achievements in modern journalism. No one in the U.S. wanted anyone to know anything about their lives and no journalist besides Scahill was even marginally interested in finding out. It…

You could see what he was going for, taking radical marginalized voices, confronting bigotry, promoting that brand of religious humanism he's into, and trying to make it all palatable for consumer culture. And let's be clear, he missed that goal by a wide fucking margin sometimes with segments like let me sit in this…

The full movie is just as great. Bill Withers and Miriam Makeba are outstanding and Muhammed Ali provides the running commentary.

I always tell anyone who will listen (and many who won't) forget the Apollo, Say It Live And Loud: Live In Dallas 8/26/68 is James Brown at the absolute height of his powers. They hit the ground running and don't seem to ever pause to catch their breadth. It has hand down the greatest drumming I've ever heard in my…

The gossip twins were ones that I didn't care for at all at the time, but have really grown on me in recent years.

It's absolutely fantastic:

@avclub-6463731acbc7db8bcd174cddca74e2dd:disqus I hear ya, and I can't say I mind them doing something different and totally going for it. (What kind of KitH fan would I be?)

@avclub-6463731acbc7db8bcd174cddca74e2dd:disqus I think there's good stuff it in, but it does not sustain itself and it's a ridiculously self-indulgent exercise. It also throws out the thing that made the Kids in the Hall so great: the balance of their different voices. They all just become players in the Scott…

Yes, they were very explicit about that: "Dear Viewer, We here at the Kids in the Hall feel it's important to not that we wrote this sketch at the request of CBS. It's the kind of idea they laugh very hard at. In fact, one executive said, 'Why don't you do the kind of scene they did on The Sonny and Cher Show. Now…

That's one of those great sketches that came out of odd pairings. I don't think you could predict a sketch like that from Mark or Scott, but put them together and somehow this is what they do. It's like a weird comedy alchemy.

Bruce did the best "to camera" pieces:

C) The Wrong Guy

He straight up Ted Dansoned it.
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I'm surprised no one here's taken that moniker. (And not to be that guy, but it's MacAbee.)

This is a wonderful article that absolutely gets what Kids in the Hall were about, especially how well-defined the individual voices were and how that somehow melded into a single creative voice for the show. You can see how in the early days especially they pushed each member to do some fourth wall breaking bit (even…

Part of the thing that this article doesn't get into so much (limited space and all) is yeah, they were spoofing pretentious art house shit, but simultaneously really, really wanted their work to be accepted on the same terms. That's what made Kids in the Hall so great for me, sure they could be ridiculous and…

Scott was exceptionally great at very subtly mocking the most milquetoast suburban types who are so painfully reserved. See also: Danny Husk. Forget the weirder stuff they did with that character, just watch how he conveys a guy desperately trying to never call attention to himself.

Yeah it's difficult and somewhat pointless to do specific episodes, but it does do a nice job of charting their transition of the years (their love/hate relationship with recurring characters, increased move toward elaborate film pieces).

@avclub-734ffb84cfa214922893511fae356b45:disqus Yeah that's nice, but like Popper's argument has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment, hence the cognitive dissonance. (And every single dictionary definition in the world specifies militia as comprised of more than one person.)