What is the prize for BGT? I mean she's already famous, so does it really matter if she "won"?

"Are you saying that American Bible-Belt homophobes voted against Susan Boyle? Because I think that's a bit of a stretch. "

I think Susan Boyle's loss, right on the heels of Adam Lambert's, says a lot about these shows.

wait,
Am I supposed to love Susan Boyle, or hate her? I lost track.

What are we hating on then? I think this is great.

I missed it
What actually happened?

"Real satire requires you to take a position. Good satire requires that you choose a deserving target and crystallize the flaw in their wrongdoing in a way that allows people to laugh at it. On the other hand, if your position at the beginning of the Iraq War is that it's all for the best … you can't turn that into…

Black Sabbath is OK
I saw them live three separate times with each frontman . . . I liked Dio the best. Ozzy is way past it.

The fact that Pakistan and India have nukes pointed at each other is a much bigger threat to US national security, because we have outsourced so many god damned jobs to India. Like seriously, we'd be fucked if India got nuked. Who would take my drivethrough order for a Big Mac?

To quote the incredulous owl:

Do any of the AVClub reviewers have kids?

I teared up at the end of the original Jurassic Park because I thought it was awful they were just going to let all the dinosaurs starve to death on the island. Its not like they can help being dinosaurs! They didn't mean to hurt anybody!

* Night at the Museum 2, I meant to say.

from salon.com:
"Pixar's latest is bursting with charming visual touches and life-affirming messages, so why does it feel so cold?

Flower Arrangement is the spirit of Japan!

Woah slow down there egghead
Let's do a Gateways to Geekery on "Books" and whittle down from there.

"I wouldn't pretend to be able to relate the concepts of sacrifice and loyalty and following orders to a bunch of hipsters, most of whom probably don't have any friends that have served. You're all so far removed from the conflict, in your world of bands I've never heard of and internet conspiracy theories, it's…

"Well, what you call war profiteering, or a war for oil, me and most of the guys I served with would call a mission to liberate a country from an opressive dictator. But of course, we've just all been brainwashed, right? "

I was not aware of that, actually.

"I think that deep down many in the Bush administration were sort of unrepentant cold warriors that saw the world as a dangerous place full of bullies and thugs, and if the US with the most powerful military in the world doesn't stand up to those bullies and thugs, who will? "