There's a reason the AMA is a staunchly right-leaning organization. It may not be an oversimplification to say the medical establishment is cut from the cloth of those who learned everything they needed to know about the human struggle from X-Rays, CAT Scans, and tissue samples. Try discussing higher consciousness…

Respectfully, I'm not so sure. If you look at a 2015 racist and a racist from say, the pre-PC 1980s, there is one fundamentally important distinction: relatively few 2015 racists don't bend over backwards to deny being racists. Bill Maher has correctly, I think, identified denial of (obvious or institutional) racism…

One thing is for sure - Alfred Molina has crafted a character who, regardless of his ultimate motivations, we cannot look away from. As someone born and raised within the ethically flexible governance of Chicago, Molina's councilman rings all too familiar to me. I thank David Simon for allowing me to better understand…

In a far better world the constituents might actually place themselves within a sphere of accountability. But this is the feckless and fickle angry white person vote we're talking about. It's an engine powered on blind emotion and magical-thinking to begin with. Leave it to David Simon to so compellingly give us a…

Sir, you may choose to stay in space once I tell you Indiana is one of a shocking number of States where corporal punishment is still legal in public and private schools. For one thing, this would seem to imply a far greater disciplinary latitude for school employees than for parents of the same child.

Another fact: There is no information possessed by males that females are not already privy to. Why, just the other day my girlfriend enlightened me on the topic of morning erections.

By the end of Season 4, I was rooting for Harrow's widow to be the sort of stabilizing, loving influence who could steer Tommy onto a functional life path.

I suppose the distinctions separating manipulative from 'affecting', cloying from 'evocative'…ultimately, they are based upon the quality of the storytelling. The grace of the writing, the sincerity of the performances, et al.

I myself had considered the possibility it was Tommy…but couldn't quite square it with the math. 7 years have passed, but wasn't Season 4 Tommy still only about five years old?

I kind of feel that New York (and its fictional/semi-fictional) representatives played a role similar to that on Winters's other show, The Sopranos. The slumbering bear, looming across the way, lying in wait for the anti-hero's outsized ambitions to catch up with him. No matter what Tony/Nucky's momentary…

Saskatchewan was a second-home to many prohibition-era bootleggers who got shot in the face.

The lovably genial antique-buff, part-time detective who lived a hundred years later on a different continent? Of course! Why didn't I see it myself?

I hear his new show is about a surfer from Ohio with magical abilities.

To my mind, this indicates a scene which succeeds artistically at every level. To put an audience on the same empathic wavelength as a viciously smug murderer…something has been successfully and profoundly communicated here. Kudos to the actors, writers, and everyone involved!

The republican mission is to to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

I seem to remember Peter Greene being poised, back in the 90s, to breakout famewise. He then suffered a very public arrest for heroin and subsequent, well-documented, struggles with hard drugs. He may even have written a memoir on his troubles, though typically, I'm too lazy to confirm via Amazon.