@avclub-b210215075f68e712aa3d04c9269aea8:disqus ,  the market success of Dr. Nick Riviera proves the worthiness of his methods.  If people didn't get cured, they wouldn't keep coming back to Dr. Nick, and the government should get out of his and his patients' way.

After reading this thread, I went through the Youtubes and watched the videos for "Beat It" and "Billie Jean."  My God, I'd forgotten why Michael Jackson became a star in the first place.  He spent the last 25 years of his life becoming ever more freakish, and it's easy for us to forget what magnetism he had.  The…

If I'm reading you correctly in this comments section, @avclub-21b39f6bb24a7facdbb5e4eafe45cad3:disqus :

McCartney has gotten really interesting as an old man, to me.  I think most of this came out during his messy (to put it lightly) divorce, but some of it started showing when Linda died.  Anyway, in some interviews I've seen, he's shown a bit more of the real man under the conciliatory, Epstein-created persona that he…

He had a subtle, dry humor that he never really got credit for, too.  Well, maybe with the Wilburys he finally did. 

I should add that I'm not in agreement with @avclub-21b39f6bb24a7facdbb5e4eafe45cad3:disqus .  I think the world needs plenty of liberal-arts graduates.  We know how to think critically, communicate effectively, and — most important in a constantly changing and evolving economy — we know how to continue learning all…

I wouldn't waste any more of my time trying to teach a random Millennial person anything.  I had to do that in grad school, and it was painful.  My son is 2, meaning that he's well beyond the Millennial generation,
and is part of whatever the next one is, that doesn't really have a name
yet.

There is the matter of a dick in a box that should

All I see is how much he resembles Screech.

Even before Diva was her duet cover of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," which was really good.

Regardless, it wasn't because of Tom Petty going solo.

@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus I'll join my son's generation in deploring grunge as a horrible Generation-X legacy.

I've never heard of Pocoyo, so I don't think he's watching it.

According to Wikipedia, Cesar Chavez day (celebrated on his birthday, March 31, which coincided with Easter in 2013), is a state holiday in California, Colorado, and Texas.  I'm sure there are some people who are pissed that a state holiday was established for a Mexican.  Of course, Cesar Chavez was a native-born…

Hah!  If you really want to see some American conservative religious types go apoplectic, remind them that Jesus was likely a whole lot browner than what they're used to seeing.

I agree.  Same goes for Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever didn't signal the end of the Heartbreakers or the Traveling Wilburys.

So no one took Mike + The Mechanics as a credible enough band to pose a threat to Genesis?

I hear PM Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" on the "classic hits" station a few weeks ago.  I wanted to drive off the bridge.

Twenty years later, and I still can't bring myself to listen to "Why," as it was a song my then-girlfriend and I listened to a lot, torn apart as we were by going to different colleges 2000 miles apart.

Oooo, let's do El deBarge next!