I'm confused. I didn't think either Will Smith or Denzel Washington were dead. I have no opinion on whether they have vaginas.

I suppose you're right that the allegory isn't precise, but I think it's pretty clear that Bajor is based on Israel. Cardassia isn't exactly Germany but they are definitely fascist.

Avery Brooks does not need notes to "play it more black". Black actors get notes to "play it more Avery Brooks".

^ Buddhists… but good one nonetheless.

@avclub-587cfeb528aef752bfe58ce611c4f9ce:disqus it's not about Ke$ha at all. It's just that in this day and age there is no excuse for an educated and intelligent person to be ignorant about how to pronounce "$".

I believe Lucas said, in an effort to explain his "naive style", that you can't make a popcorn movie without lots of corn.

Fake beard, fake hair, fake hands. There's some kind of cover-up going on. I think that that dude is Osama! I knew he wasn't dead!

I'm confused… what has happened in the intervening years? People just wander up on stage and take whatever awards are lying around?

Don't be ridiculous. Of course he's aware of sarcasm. Who isn't aware of sarcasm? What are you getting at?

I use the "nature>nurture" argument to justify letting my kids roam free in the woods while I get drunk watching football. Surprisingly Child Protective Services disagreed with this argument!

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<csb> I went to highschool with someone named Je****fer Drake (redaction out of respect for her privacy) who I lost touch with. Many years later I heard that there was a pornographic actress named Jessica Drake and I thought to my self: "huh, well, I guess that makes sense". Then I realized that it was Jessica not…

@Guelph It may be the case that the dawn of the replicator was the impetus for the switch to communism. Replicators would have both necessitated communism, by undermining the bulk of the primary and secondary sectors of the economy, and enabled it, by largely reducing the need for the market mechanism to drive…

NIMBYism. The entitled middle class Cardassians just love their Bajoran torture devices but just you try and convince them to set up a rare Cardassia metal smelter in their town. I suppose they think that those torture devices work by magic?! Fucking jerks.

@FigPlucker Haven't seen the movie yet, but the book leaves you to draw your own conclusions about Prideaux's motives. However, most contemporary readers would conclude that he was, probably ambivalently, meting out justice. To a certain extent, the novel was a roman a clef about Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five.…

She's cute as a button!

I have often wondered about the references to homosexual relationships in early Le Carre.

Yes. @avclub-0f558aca37b0ea095eca66a75cb66831:disqus  is declaring @avclub-eb573591cef285c12701571987b08381:disqus  to be his King, Nerd of Nerds, and pledging his allegiance.

I will not stand here and tolerate this implied slight against orange shirts! Where the fuck did that come from?!

I think the difference is that Letterman already has his "fuck you" money.