I wasn't sure at the time how much of that stuff John Singleton intended seriously. Now, I'm pretty sure it was everything. He really is a bad director and a worse writer. 

I like the ability to not take religion seriously in a person. 

Yeah, that's one of the many great jokes in "Beer League" that the one guy is keeping track of his batting average and stats, as well as narrating his at-bats. 

Late but, I gotta say, Affleck if fucking perfect in Shakespeare in Love.

I just read Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes about Hawai'i, where she notes that some of the people who were loudest against the U.S. establishing a Pacific empire were those who argued that we had too many brown people in the country as it was and didn't need more.

What the fuck would Harper Lee know about growing up the south during the depression, anyway?

I guess in 1915, the idea of all white people getting along together in harmonious oppression of blacks was sort of progressive, given that many people were in favor of oppressing all non-WASPs.

I don't. I only lock it when I'm sleeping. I have a medium-sized, scary-sounding dog and I have retired neighbors who are always watching everything on the block, so I feel pretty confident that most burglars are going to go to the next street.

Cosmic, if you make enough Jaguar warriors it won't matter. Research improvements that lower their cost and you can win a battle of attrition.

Supposedly the modern use of Uncle Tom as a toady to whites comes more from minstrel show stage plays based loosely on the novel in the late 19th century, mostly after the end of Reconstruction, which changed things around a lot and portrayed Tom as happy-go-lucky type who was all for doing whatever his good masters…

What's the evidence that reviving the KKK was unintentional? At least they had to aiming at getting people to think it was a good thing that the North stopped enforcing democracy in the South, as Republicans in 1910s were still occasionally threatening to do so. 

Just so we realize that by help we mean "thousands of troops." The Spanish wouldn't have been able to survive without them.

Exactly. Am I the only one who grew up in the country, understanding that there was a very small, but not zero chance that a bear would decide to kill and possibly eat me?

"Stunt cock!"

I'm still too afraid of Kim Kelly to agree with you.

Much more realistic if the first report had just been "explosion at nursing home" and Walt had to wait 20 or 30 minutes to hear "police are now telling us that three people are dead." It wouldn't work dramatically to drag it out, because we saw what happened. 

People who want to yell about how fat is self-inflicted should probably realize that current American society couldn't be better designed to make homo sapiens sapiens fat if it included bacon IVs.

It's possible my memories are foggy, but they were able to start the damn thing. That took some money to start up.

The best thing about that bit was that Stu was so sure he wouldn't be found in Boulder.

And that ninth grader grew up to be Josh Homme?