People who go to schools like MIT do have a distressing tendency to be bright, hardworking, and completely detached from the real world.

Easy there, you might hurt William Jennings Bryan's feelings.

No, you're thinking of Thaphireth.

I don't know if I'd get my TRUE FACTS from a wordpress blog, but there's definitely an element of the old "white slavery" moral panic in modern sex slavery myths. There aren't many people left who remember the bygone era when sheiks were widely believed to be abducting white girls and whisking them off to exotic araby…

Yeah, if being a drunken know-it-all was an endearing quality, I'd have more friends.

Yeah, Wackd had a pretty nice burn there, but insulting Arundel won't make Dyss-Nugent any better as a writer. Add me to the list of people who has no fucking clue why Groth is even mentioned in this review. The editorial control of this site was never great, but since Phipps left, it seems like every review posted on…

Otto, your friend sounds like a really shitty driver. Maybe the geese were just trying to warn him to slow down

I think it all goes back to how rootless our society has become. A lot of the upper middle class folks I've met bounce between six or seven neighborhoods after college and most of their neighbors are the same sort of people. So you have these whole communities of outsiders playing at being a neighborhood. This may…

I'm with you. I have a really hard time sympathizing with people affluent enough to play the starving artist in New York. I mean, if you don't want to spend a fortune in rent, move! Live in a smaller city. Move to the suburbs. Share rent with a roommate. Get a day job. Whatever you have to do. This hipster fantasy of…

I thought the asides were the best part of the show. It makes you feel like a co-conspirator rather than a passive observer. Plus Frank's character comes through more clearly in them than at any other time. If we just had his interactions with the people he manipulates, he'd be a total cypher.

The thing to understand about Zoe is she isn't a real journalist and knows nothing about reporting. She basically just wants to be famous and respected without doing any work.

It's odd that for a show that's about modern american politics, this show contains no modern american politics. I don't think they even say outright that Frank's a Democrat until episode 3. They could have set this show on Mars and made Frank a Marsocrat for all the differences it would make.

Ahem, it's spelled "Spider-Man" with two capitals and a hyphen. Honestly, some people.

God's not gay, he just didn't know what else to think after his friend raped him.

Six day war… right to exist… only democracy in the middle east… second intifada… hamas is a terrorist group… golan heights… why don't they just go to Jordan? Jewish homeland… antisemitism… aipac… there are are extremists on both sides… unchecked population growth… human shields… white phosphorus… settler movement……

Yeah even the lighting-powered sentient jet got a job selling insurance.

Way ahead of you!

And he was crossing aggressively, so it was self defense.

I have to go now, a whale is in trouble.

Actually, a concert in a dark room sounds like a really cool idea. Or it would if people didn't inevitably ruin it with their obnoxious glowing cell phones and unrestrained groping.