When I say "tactical intricacy" I mean relative to the story. "Fake them into opening a hole and pour through" may not be that complicated, but the fact that Dukat just has to open a hole for Sisko and then close it on him, has to give Sisko his opening and beat him right here and now and just can't wait him out until…

I was hoping it said "The American Bible-Eating Challenge". Sadness.

I think the actual tweet got quoted somewhere else in the comments on this episode.

The Day the Violence Died isn't about Itchy and Scratchy being replaced with lame nonviolence, which would be the plot of Itchy and Scratchy and Marge from back in Season 2.

In this day and age, a compelling sporting event that takes 20 minutes to watch from start to finish is a pretty good thing.

Here's the problem with that interpretation. The story of Zero Dark Thirty isn't just "The capture of Bin Laden" but the entire process that went into it, from 9/11/01 to 5/1/11—and torture most assuredly WAS a part of that, something the CIA did, in Afghanistan, as part of that hunt. In an alternate universe where…

I'd say when you want to yell about a piece of art, you should wait until it's actually out and watch it before, as Mr. Vishnevetsky reminds us, likening them to Nazi propagandists. Greenwald jumped on his high horse to yell "Zero Dark Thirty shows torture found Bin Laden! Apologists!" when his only knowledge about…

There's still Andy Greenwald? He's an all right TV critic over at Grantland, right?

The Post and Guardian got Pulitzers for "Public Service" rather than "Investigative Reporting" and it's telling that
only the Post was praised for "authoritative and
insightful reports help[ing] the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security" while the Greenwald reporting…

Yes. A real investigative reporter might have taken those documents and gotten a real story out of it that might have spurred legit reforms. So far 90% of the conversation around this stuff seems to be a mix of leftist agitprop, paranoia, and Snow-wald fameballery.

I find the unmitigated gall of someone who, when the shit was actually going down, was too apathetic, naive, trusting, or plain clueless to actually care to speak out or protest anything, coming back to lecture everyone about how horrible everything and everyone is, how they're shills for the "surveillance state" and…

Profiles in "How a Patriot Acts": "Just because I wrote that I supported Bush and the Patriot Act and the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War doesn't mean I supported those things, because I kept it to myself and was completely apathetic while all of it happened."

From the book linked, in Mr. Greenwald's own words: "I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country…

What did he actually, you know, break though? He was an op-ed style polemicist for Salon and the Guardian; I remember when the Snowden stuff came out it was the first time he actually had a 'hard news' byline. In terms of actually digging through sources and finding hard info, and breaking big stories, even the kind…

Except that his big complaining came before ever actually, you know, seeing the film. Which is kind of Miller's point 1. And I say this as someone who generally didn't like Zero Dark Thirty though for the reasons that basically can be summed up like so:

Outside of getting a giant cache dropped on his doorstep, what genuine investigating did he actually, you know, do?

I think the thing about the Romulans is that they're xenophobic and paranoid, and fear being surrounded entirely by a hostile power, which explains their perpetual goals of dividing the Fed and Klingons. The question they have to face in the post-war world is whether to retrench after the war and take advantage of…

…and was played by David Hyde Pierce.

Also, you have literally hours and hours of Jon reading my thoughts on DS9 while JR goes to the bathroom ahead of you. Enjoy!

Try and write in! I could use the company. I'd recommend getting it done and sending it in before they even announce the next podcast—they tend to be last minute on their announcements.