is the fix in?
I often suspect the votes on this show are rigged (having noticed the little disclaimer in the credits that the producers sometimes have a say in the outcomes), and on a couple of shows I've been put off by the biased voting of the prissy male critic (can't remember his name — James? — not the…

three opinions, two mystics
An emphatic YES! to the great Mystic Eyes (do I count only one mention here of that amazing song???)

@Ellie. Interesting what you say about Jesse not being an addict. I only started watching the show this season so my perspective on that is limited. In some ways he seems to think of himself as an addict (assuring his dealing partners that he can watch and cook without snorting), but you're right, he certainly wasn't…

jesse's relapse
Maybe I missed it, but not much discussion here of Jesse's relapse just before he steps out in the street with his gun. That's going to have major ramifications for Walter, Gus, and others, assuming it continues.

I originally bought Honky Tonk Heroes because it had the coolest album cover I'd ever seen, and I love it, but Lonesome Onry and Mean has become my favorite Waylon album.

I wouldn't put it quite so strongly, but the focus does seem to have gotten extremely fuzzy of late.

old fart complaints
Madonna, Shania Twain, and all the "artists" who have come in their wake who sell sex and a huge, phoney stage show with lots of dancers in place of any music worth listening to. Equally infuriating: the idiots who suck it up, guaranteeing that more of the same bilge will come pouring out of the…

Jon Pareles of the Times is a great pop/rock critic, one of the best. Knows what he's talking about, excellent writer, good interviewer, fair critic. Lynn Hirschberg isn't on the music staff, she's a frequent contributor to the Times Sunday magazine and lots of other magazines. A lot of her celebrity pieces are puff…

a few overlooked gems?
I see one mention in all the posts above of one of my favorite tracks on Exile: Sweet Black Angel. Is it considered politically incorrect or something? I remember reading somewhere it was written about Angela Davis, so it would seem to be okay on that score. A great song and a departure from…

DD Lewis has a lot of scenes that qualify. I'd nominate his final recantation scene in The Crucible. Incredibly moving.

miller's crossing
The attempted assassination of Albert Finney's character, Leo.

pretention
I saw this when it first came out in New York City, the first year I moved there, and it pissed me off because it gave all the New Yorkers in the audience a chance to feel superior to country people in general and country music in particular. Not sure whether the film actually invites that or not; will have…

BTW phodreaw. snickering putdowns are another common diversionary tactic. I would have expected better from you.

If you refer to me, I'd say annoyed is more like it.

Jesus, you guys are incorrigible!

Greg: It's a common diversionary tactic to impute some ulterior motive to your interlocutor rather than to engage the issue at hand. "You doth protest too much" falls into that category. Yes, I would have felt better if Rabin had said "some men," just I would have felt better if some of the posters above would have…

Excuse me, Greg.

Sorry, I really don't want to launch into this discussion here. Your question implies you don't see any instance whatsoever where those assertions might be true, which is indicative of how blind many people — women and men — are to the problem. It's also indicative of how little is to be gained by launching into a…

c) it amazes me how many women gladly endorse gender stereotypes when applied to men when that's exactly what women (rightly) object to when gender stereotypes are applied to them.

a) it's advantageous to claim the other group is "the dominant group" when there's something to be gained by being the dominated group, and