On top of that, you've got polls showing that 65 percent of likely GOP primary voters and 37 percent of likely primary voters overall saying they support such a ban. Great Job, America!

Absolutely thorough and fair analysis. Did not mean to imply conservative Christians lined up outside family planning clinics to picket the day after Roe v. Wade; my general understanding has always been that evangelical conservatives didn't start to coalesce as a political force until around 1980. But Roe v. Wade…

Meh. They just do what they always do; tap into their cognitive dissonance and rationalize it as "Carter's one of those sissy liberal faux-Christians — not the manly man kind who keep America safe"… or something.

I don't think you're incorrect about that. Courting Evangelicals didn't become en vogue until after Roe v. Wade in 1973. Reagan (vis a vis his advisers/handlers like Lee Atwater) perfected marrying the religious right, dog-whistle politics, and regressive economic policy tarted up as folksy populism.

Presumably husband Sutter won't be writing, so there's no chance of her character getting raped, or otherwise tortured, maimed, or murdered. Good for her.

It would be a shame to waste all that great footage…

His willingness to stoop to the levels he does on the show as Frank paradoxically made my already healthy respect for him skyrocket. You hit the nail on the head: the fact that he seemingly loves the show and the character is so cool.

Those are all worthy nominees for a best episodes list. While I won't claim all of these are the show's best, episodes that stand out for me personally (mainly for their anarchic/absurdist premises) are "The Gang Wrestles For The Troops" (Frank as 'The Trash Man' a guy whose gimmick is eating garbage kills me), "The…

That makes a lot of sense. I mean, these types of weird "genre mashup" movies are definitely not going to appeal to all tastes and sensibilities. Not to mention, comedy, especially of the absurdist variety (I'd consider a Christmas horror-comedy pretty absurd) can be quite subjective.
(For the record, I also liked…

"Relating to or bringing about the settlement of an issue," as in this circumstance, whether Krampus is "good" or not. (I realize it's not a word that's often used outside legal contexts, but I think it's used correctly, if uncommonly, here.)

As of Friday morning, it's sitting at 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Not dispositive by any stretch, but that seems about right for a movie like this. Between Dowd's review and that aggregate number, I'm inferring that there's probably enough good stuff in the movie to make it at least enjoyable and reasonably…

Indiana Jones And These Portions Are So Small!

[Gravel voice]: "YOU WILL!"

[Screaming directly into camera while shirtless]: "… and then there were dinosaurs and The Joker and I got shot seventy-three times and Robin was there too!"

Yeah, glad this movie's based on a book; only so much he can do to the story to "depress it up."

*sirens blaring*

Wait, you mean ownership stakes in facebook won't just be handed out in the breadline? Since when have billionaires ever used the nation's laws to surreptitiously move their assets around in ways mere mortals don't understand? Enough of this nonsense; I'm gonna go listen to NPR, brought to me by the Carnegie Trust.

Billionaires doling out morsels of equity in privately held mega-corporations to the smallfolk is truly what makes America great.

"… That’s not the storytellers’ fault. It’s just the sophistication [of the audience’s ability] to figure things out. It’s like, we’re up against this incredible creative algorithm.”

"YOU CAN'T DO IT!"