The yellow cab medallions cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but a TLC driver's license isn't that expensive. Most yellow cab drivers lease their cabs from or work as employees of a medallion owner.

But how do Ms. Larson's hops and wheat feel about it?

Different vendors. The 2TB and the 4TB are sold by Amazon, the 3TB is a 3rd party vendor fulfilled through Amazon.

The question isn't so much would you have thought better of Birth of a Nation, it's would you have thought less of Affleck's performance if he'd been (properly) vilified prior to you seeing Manchester?

It is truly the height of moral heroism.

There's a chicken-and-the-egg bit to this, however, because you have to wonder if people's perceptions of the movie's quality differ if the audience's perception of the writer/director/star is that he was tried for rape (as they did by the time of the movie's release) rather than perceiving him as a promising young…

Oh my God! Is that Barry Jenkins's theme music?

Twin sister? But…Leary doesn't have a twin sister! And strangely, no one's seen him since Conway took over the Trump campaign…

That explains Argo winning, but not the idea that Argo went from the sixth or seventh movie on that slate to winner. I don't think that Argo was ever less likely to win than Life of Pi or Silver Linings Playbook.

There had been a previous winner without a Best Director nod (one of the Academy's biggest brain farts, Driving Miss Daisy), and in any case, we're not talking about the likelihood of winning, but the likelihood of getting nominated. Argo won the Golden Globe for Best Drama, and I don't think I've ever heard of the…

I don't know about the odds, but Argo won best drama from the Golden Globes, and won at the DGA and the Producers Guild. The other guilds also gave it top awards for ensemble cast (SAG) and Adapted Screenplay (WGA). It wasn't a marginal nominee—it rightfully should've been the favorite.

Good picks, but do you really think the eventual winner (Argo) would've been left off in 2013? I suspect Beasts of the Southern Wild and Zero Dark Thirty would've been out, and Argo and Amour would've made the final five (along with Lincoln, Life of Pi, and Silver Linings Playbook).

For free? Guys like that usually pay for it.

He's helped us understand
Whaaaat makes a man
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Because zombie films and post-apocalyptic films are distinct genres? Most zombie films are focused on an active apocalypse, the fear of the civilization-ending event itself, the fear of an unstoppable tide of mindless killer ex-humans. One of the appeals of the genre is the prospect that there is no post-zombie world,…

Would you have been OK with it if they had all the vague hints and allusions, and then dropped it? Because while I get that it was jarring, I don't think there was a middle path between it actually showing up and the entire storyline proving to be a very annoying red herring.

So then how do you reach the conclusion that FOX News is middle-right? Is it ever not right wing (genuinely asking—I haven't been a FOX viewer for a few years, but when I was, their coverage never strayed from hard right orthodoxy)? Just because Hannity could be considered farther right than most of FOX's stable of…

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…at the second or third time people point out you're pro-pedophilia?

Hard to say which is the higher priority. I think The Kids Are All Right is probably her career performance, and much better than Portman in Black Swan (a good but gimmicky performance). The worst robbery she suffered was probably Whoopi Goldberg beating her for The Grifters, since Whoopi's performance in Ghost does…