America is absolutely a "church of state" which is committing atrocities, and anybody who pays taxes is absolutely contributing to those atrocities. There's no question in my mind about that.

Despite the fact that Beckett is presumably not a lesbian, Castle is nevertheless Beckett's beard.

Apes-Ma, you have the right of it; my point was merely about "religious confessions" versus "atheistic confessions," but it's worth reminding us that the credibility of those confessions can be awfully suspect. I'm fairly certain that no American politician, for example, worships anything except money and themselves.…

Ugh, meanwhile, the thing about old people, apparently, is that they clearly don't know how to use this newfangled internet contraption.

Wasn't saying anything about you, man. I was just talking about those young people again. The ones Stumpy and I cannot stand. I don't know why you're taking this so personally.

Now you see, I always thought it was referring to a medieval polearm. I have been educated! Thank you; liked!

It puts the rewrites in the basket.

Extremely freaky and convenient wave of simultaneous adoptions. That's just common sense; why would the writers even waste time on it?

Yeah, given how campily they oversold that curse, it was pretty jarring when they didn't end up in Detroit.

"Cabbage patch" is a metaphor for "messed-up vagina."

The clerk was trying to be meta. Think about it.

Is the ocelot called Boner's Remorse?

By comparison almost all other religions have the "Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt" T-shirt. Some of them bought it many, many times.

The funny thing about religious people who do terrible things, is that they often explicitly state "Hey guys, this thing I'm doing that you think is terrible but actually isn't has everything to do with my religious beliefs!"

Morrison has entered into that magical time in a (television-hot) woman's life when her breasts look way better than they did a few years ago as long as the bra remains on.

Apparently most of academia is convinced that dick'n'fart jokes need to be aged for centuries before they can transition from puerile to brilliant.

Even if you're disinclined to show utter contempt for your audience, allowances must be made for the imperfections of your chosen medium.

Most American Christians are okay, in the same way that most human beings haven't murdered anybody because they were never told to by a guy wearing a lab coat.

Keep smiling, Brits!

At the risk of blowing through the rest of my yearly misogyny quota…