The more troubling issue is that religion seems awfully eager to try to cross the Great Divide between the non-empirical (whatever that may be… how would we ever know?) and the empirical. It's almost as if it's a characteristic of religion to crave and seek out power and legitimacy in the empirical world, seemingly…

Isn't religion, by definition, the shiniest of all the rotten apples?

Truly effective criticism of a standard, mediocre procedural would ultimately have to address the elephant in the room: why do so many people watch, and apparently enjoy, shows with so many glaring and obvious flaws that are spread over so many of the facets that make up a television show?

I meant Reebok Pumps, man. Pump it up!

I watched this video for approximately 38 fewer seconds than I watched the Whitney pilot.

I'm still amazed that Apple didn't hire Bruce Willis to be a PC in just one of those commercials. Maybe they tried, and he held out for an iPod commercial featuring one of his original songs.

"A white knight, you say? Well if there's one thing we know here in Russia, it's how to deal with mensheviks."

20-Sided Die Hard
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die Hard

Psych is fully invested in giving Dulé Hill money, and I am extremely okay with that.

As I suspected, we simply disagree, and about some pretty serious things. I'm not going to be dick just because of that, but I do strongly disagree with your opinions and what I believe to be some of your unstated assumptions.

Man, it must suck to play a cleric in your games.

Joss Whedon + Robert Downey, Jr. = why isn't this just called Iron Man 3 with a few very special guests who exist solely to set up the next snappy one-liner?

I did indeed make the argument that the US prison system (a broad term I'm using to encompass the state prison systems as well) holds considerable responsibility for failing to prevent the murder of a person that they were holding prisoner inside one of their prisons - in other words, a person who was involuntarily in…

Why blame everyone who deserves blame when you can avoid a vast swath of uncomfortable truths by glibly implying that "blame" is an indivisible abstraction that must be assigned completely to one actor - regardless, ironically enough, of whether that actor is itself classified as an individual or as a conglomerate?

I think perhaps you should reread my comment and point out where, exactly, I disqualified Son from his shot at renewed villain-hood in any way.

I'd nominate the United States' prison system as a pretty clear-cut villain. Even setting aside the fact that it creates an environment wherein crime is rampant despite virtually all civil liberties and constitutional rights being stripped away (including, de facto, one's 8th Amendment rights - and if you don't…

I'm getting a T-shirt made. It says "you will ultimately regret talking to me about" near the top, and then the rest is just blank, awaiting customization.

I don't think I can live in a world where there's a worse sitcom on television than Whitney.

Short version: something feels off about the characterization. I'm not blaming the writers for not giving us all of Hanks' character's backstory, but the apparent inconsistencies I've already noted make it harder to envision *any* backstory that would provide a satisfying explanation for why *all* of his behavior so…

There are few better litmus tests for empathy, maturity, and perspective than seeing how a person goes about playing an evil character in D&D.