I don't follow right wing talk radio, or anything else, so never heard of the guy.

Don't forget making holy, unaccountable, individual and business rights clash with evil, wasteful, work-ethic-draining big government, so that problems that affect millions that need government to solve them go on and on, continuing to cause mass harm to people.

Personal update on the Disquis troubles. I don't have to log in anymore to my Disquis account to see my AV Club notifications in the sidebar, but, I can't upvote and reply in that space until I do. So, a bit of progress.

Lincoln was over a 150 years ago. What has the Republican Party done for Americans lately? It's a weird selling point if you think about it. It's basically reminding people how far the party has fallen, like Al Bundy constantly talking about his four high school touchdowns in a single game. That's great, Al, but now…

This is certainly a human crack in the right wing shock jock mask. People are complicated!

The Death Penalty is a good example of placing emotional, feel-good but fact-free ideology over a moral society dedicated to doing public good.

A journalist working on a story about conservative media posted on Twitter part of his interview with a conservative talk show host, who regrets conservative media "basically eliminated the referees, the gatekeepers", by attacking mainstream media so much that they, the hosts, can't refute whatever their audiences…

RIP to a character. He did not sell lobster at a kosher restaurant.
https://www.youtube.com/wat… (Some delightful nightclub-ish singing when he's 91 with his xylophone-playing son.)

Probably because of how the book was singled out, I expected it to be more formidable and possibly categorically different than any of his others. But, nope, he's still writing about myth, ancient history, "whimsical supernaturalism" as you call it, modern cities—and I can't get enough. His prose is the same, and I…

Rachel Hunter is still modeling? Huh. Oh, she's filming a commercial. Never mind; ads are nostalgic nowadays.

Same. I haven't watched the Olympics since they started. Don't care.

That's one Guy per hour you spent sanding that dresser. Now do something really fast and go to In-N-Out.

The Coldplay-Beyonce halftime show was disappointing? I thought it was pretty good. Nice and confident of the chaps to take a backseat at their own gig. COLDPLAY IS NOT A BAD BAND, DAMMIT!

Also, it's my understanding that no act ever sings (or sometimes plays) live.

Lemming at 'em!

The film's director being the well known doctor who committed fraud linking vaccines to autism. Not hard to Google. The subtitle of the film is "From Cover-Up to Catastrophe." That's pretty clear, and from this guy, where the movie would stand. It's hard to believe he didn't know the guy who started the current big…

I earlier today read that NYT piece. Yeah, he never wanted to be President but can't handle losing so he's morose and crabby. (Though, to be fair, this country's political campaigns are so absurdly drawn out and difficult that anyone would find them impossible to do.) The danger now is his supporters who he's worked…

I would say many including myself feel The Bourne Ultimatum is the best of all of them. I have no desire to see the new one.

In the Better Late than Never File, I'm 120 pages into The Satanic Verses. Big Rushdie fan (loved his new one) but just never got around to reading this most famous book. I bought his memoir of the fatwa years, Joseph Anton, and will read that as soon as I finish this.

Thomas Gibson has been fired from Criminal Minds. He allegedly got in an altercation with a producer and kicked him. This apparently is the latest example of a violent temperament going back years. In 2010, to quote Variety, he had a "violent outburst involving a 'Criminal Minds' assistant director…which resulted in…