"How could such a good cop be such a bad priest?"

When it can spell either of those monikers right with only one try, I'll consider changing the way I speak.

You can't buy cold sores; you gotta earn them.

Some people write letters to movie stars.  This guy writes letters to movies!

Did he ever publicly wish Anne Frank had lived long enough to be one?

Neil Diamond has written and performed some of the most perfect pop songs, that it's a shame he got somehow embarrassed by that in the 1970s and tried to be a "more serious" singer-songwriter.  I also heard him on Fresh Air once, and he came off as being almost supernaturally humorless.  I can't imagine that anyone…

Call the Midwife has a warning about "mature content" and it not being suitable for all viewers — but it airs at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday on PBS.

@bcfred:disqus  My guess is that the reason the guy slipped through the surveillance cracks was that he was probably one of who-knows-how-many such people our intelligence community hears about every year.  Didn't they look into him a little, and didn't find anything too worrisome?  I don't want to live in an America…

If that internal suffering means nothing to you, then you'll never understand how he's being punished.

And to date, Walter White has never cheated on Skylar, that we know of (though he made that hilariously inept attempt with the school principal).  Of course, on the other side of the ledger, Don Draper hasn't ever almost killed a kid that we know of.

I've been bored with Don ever since the end of Season 4, when he married Megan on a whim (though the episode where they travel to the HoJo upstate was really interesting).  Other characters (like Pete, Ginsberg, and the dearly departed Lane Pryce) are so much more interesting than him now.  I'd like more about Don's…

I think we only saw a glimpse of Ginsberg in the first episode, so I kind of forgot about him.  But, I agree that Ginsberg is definitely one of the good ones.

@avclub-d7b683529752a4d24d84c4941861a363:disqus , that was great little glimpse into a childhood in NYC's (and all of urban America's) Dark Ages.  My father used to travel to NYC for work a lot in the late-1970s, and he came back with such thrilling and exciting tales of a place with all kinds of weird people,…

Does anyone remember a time in 2000 when John Kerry was on the short list of potential VP nominees with Gore?  What would that ticket have been like?  Sheeeeeee-it.

It's almost as if politicians from Massachusetts haven't appealed to the country as a whole for the last 40 years…

"someone being democratic or republican means nothing to me"

It wasn't the far left who attacked the Dean Machine — it was the Democratic party establishment, led by a bunch of Clinton-worshiping moderates and blue-dogs.  Remember, Dean's campaign ran off the rails in Iowa, one of those caucus states, where the campaign that is best organized to argue in people's living rooms…

To be fair, @avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus , there were plenty of places in the US in 2004 that somehow thought of themselves as international terrorist targets, when they were clearly not international terrorist targets (they were Henrys to NYC's MLK, in the analogy).  I'm thinking of all those…

My guess is that Ginsberg Sr. was married to Ginsberg's mother, but that he is not Ginsberg's biological father.  Familes were separated at concentration camps by sex; men and women were kept in separate facilities.  If he was born in a concentration camp, Ginsberg's mother was likely raped by a male guard, who is…

@avclub-41ae3cd2f3e6402db3f418313787cf86:disqus , so you're contending that things got better in America after the late-1970s?