Afghamistam: Is "infested" really the word you were looking for there?

I wondered which line spoken by the cat corresponded to "The rivers will run red with the blood of your children."

I loved the scene during the Republican/cat debate. When the 3 Republican candidates and the Oh Long Johnson cat are talking simultaneously, at one point you can hear applause from the audience.

I loved the AFT guy's explanation to Tanner as to why they were leaving, so that he wouldn't make a sudden movement. "Oh, you just stay here, it'll be fine, I'm just going to get the robot." Haha!

Nice to see a Sporkful reference! My wife and I always like to upload a few episodes to the iPod if we're going on a drive. I kind of wonder how long they can keep the show going, since they have to have covered about every food imaginable.

One that I mentioned upstream in another thread is BBC's "Witness." It's NOT an in depth, hour-long examination of a major historical event. Rather, they're short broadcasts, about 10 minutes long, that provide short synopses of often more obscure events from all regions and historical eras. If it's a relatively…

I love Hardcore History, too. My only problem is that it's hard for me to pick up where I left off with podcasts if I can't listen to the whole thing in one sitting. It's harder for me with podcasts than it is with tv shows, for some reason. And some of the Hardcore History programs are so dang long that they're…

"An American is going to have much less of a clue about the cultural
context of another English speaking country than vice versa."

That obit better have mentioned his miraculous return to the NBA, as well.

Somehow I don't think the fine members of the Florida Family Association (or whatever the fuck they call themselves) are South Park fans.

Dog is My Co-Pilot: Just out of curiosity, are you a white American? If so, do you think maybe that might have had some influence on how you were treated in Japan? The fact that people often spoke English with you doesn't really indicate anything to me. Lots of people in Japan and every country around the world are…

I haven't seen the Iranian film "A Separation," but I instantly
recognized the woman in the caption from a movie I saw over a decade
ago. Leila Hatami, who starred in (the appropriately titled) "Leila", a
1996 Iranian film. I don't think it's very well known, even by the
standards of foreign films, but I can't…

Funniest part of this episode was the commercial for Greendale at the beginning. Such a great spoof of those ridiculous commercials for local colleges that I constantly see. And I can't remember the exact line word for word, but it was something like "We have the best typing program in the southwest Greendale area."…

Meh…I'm as big a beer snob as any, but a nice, ice cold, watered down PBR can taste okay while tailgating or grilling on a summer evening. I often buy 12-packs of cheap beer to use for beer can chicken on the grill, so I have to finish the extras.

That's a fair point about the timing, I can see where you're coming from. But, while you're right that the show has already explored Charming's effect on Tara in countless other ways, that scene with Wendy really drove it home in a new way for me.

How was the Wendy plot "tiresome?" I was intrigued by the reversal of fortune aspect of her scenes with Tara and Gemma. The latter two are bloodied and bruised and psychologically vulnerable, while Wendy seems to have turned things around and is brimming with confidence. That scene b/w her and Tara was such a powerful…

I totally agree with your point about Wendy's and Tara's positions being reversed. I'm not sure if the writers were intentionally trying to draw that point, but it really struck me. Same goes with the Wendy-Gemma scene. Wendy is now the clean, seemingly successful, confident one, while Gemma looked so vulnerable and…

The point that I was trying to make was a general one and does not depend on one's specific interpretation of the conflicts in the Balkans. Where did I say "Serbians are basically bad"? I was arguing against a tendency I see in a lot of analyses of ethnic conflicts that basically assigns 100% of the blame for these…

Setting aside for a moment the actual content of this film, which sounds dreadful, I'm amused by some of the political interpretations that the director has offered. What exactly is meant by this quote (taken from the Wikipedia page about the film): "This is a diary of our own molestation by the Serbian government…
It'…

I'll admit to having a completely irrational and unfounded dislike of Brian Williams. Well, I don't think it's unfounded, but I don't expect others to agree with me.