Well yeah, that or conspiracy to commit murder I guess. I just thought there might be a weird gray area if the person he was conspiring to murder didn't really exist.

Not really. It wasn't a 'sell whatever the hell you want' free-for-all. For example, when it started the site also sold weapons and ammunition, but decided to stop because of the moral dubiousness of it.

As I've posted elsewhere in this thread, Silk Road had nothing to do with child porn. The author of the article is mistaken.

He allegedly ordered two hits related to someone trying to blackmail him with information about the vendors on the site. For one at least the person he was 'hiring' was an FBI/CIA worker, who then staged a fake assassination and took pictures, and DPR sent the FBI guy $80,000 in Bitcoins and said some stuff along the…

'Ross Ulbricht, the Penn State grad who made himself rich by allegedly founding an online black market for drugs, child porn and even contract murder.'

'Could you make that explosion a bit…explodier?'

What a ridiculous argument.

Isn't it the opposite? Anyone that can look plausibly happy while working at Asda must have elite acting abilities.

Agreed, surely 'mainstream audiences' are more familiar with porn than they are early Cronenberg movies?

Good question. Apparently he was meant to be coming on as an executive producer, but I just checked the beginning and ending credits of the most recent episode, and he's not there.

'better crafted in almost every way than everyone's first love, Breaking Bad'

I mean, I pretty much agree with your general point. But losing or putting on weight for a particular role is a pretty normal thing, and I don't know if people start hand-wringing about body fascism when (e.g.) Christian Bale has to bulk up to play Batman or turn into a horrible skeletal monster for the Machinist…

I am not @avclub-9fd634bf75695080ccdbb2c3942fa9cc:disqus , but am British and dislike James Corden, so maybe I can field this one.

@avclub-f06283e88eb8240594aa620b2fdac0e7:disqus I think Space Jam falls into the category of 'well obviously it sucks, but I totally love it', because you saw it as an 8 year old and it's nice to remember what it felt like to be young and carefree and impressionable to the point where Space Jam actually seemed like a…

Partially related trivia: backstage at the Oscars before playing 'Miss Misery', Celine Dion came up to Elliott and gave him some encouragement and a big hug and said how much she liked the song. He later said 'It was too much. It was too human to be dismissed simply because I find her music trite.'

Two, actually.

Yeah, basically what you said. If no one gives a shit about your new album but they're still interested in paying a bunch of money to see you play the hits, you're a legacy act.

More people in the casino = more people buying drinks and food, and most importantly, gambling. Many Vegas shows are basically subsidised advertising for the casino.

Begins? The Ancient Ones have pretty much already finished with her. Who are we moving on to next?

@shaenonkgarrity:disqus ConstipatedDuck said 'racial humor', not racism. You can make jokes related to race that are funny but not racist. Louis CK and Community come to mind as good examples, as well of lots of non-white comedians obviously.