To be fair, that description of what Hillary said was at worst ill-informed and at best uncharitable. This is a better accounting of the strategy behind it:

On the other hand, a modifier in the middle will give you a decent name for a grindcore band.

Not that it mattered, but Mark Warner better have a goddamn good reason for voting against that bill.

Reliable or not, the issue is they usually don't care about non A-listers unless it's something particularly salacious; i.e. it's unlikely someone would make up a story and attach it to Louis CK. Also, blind items are correct/end up being correct more often than you'd think.

True, but the interesting thing is that Louis CK isn't (i.e. wasn't a few years back) the sort of celebrity on the radar of Page Six/Blind items. There's something to be said about the possibility that he wouldn't come up in these fora unless someone had goods on him. (Indeed, I suspect the Gawker piece was aimed at…

From this miniseries I got the impression that Miles Davis ruined jazz until Wynton Marsalis saved it.

I never thought Matt Ross would be one for comedy after watching him on Big Love, but even among this brilliant cast his Gavin Belson steals every show he appears in. I second the web series idea.

Yeah, that's how I understood that exchange. Hilary's team isn't standing toe-to-toe with Trump, they're picking shots, and this one hit. 'Younger' is the key…it's clear that Hilary has some social media-savvy 20somethings on her team.

I'd like to think the Broad City girls would have outed him.

They had circulated for some time in Page 6-style gossip columns and blind items.

It's the one where the actors playing Murdoch and Riggs switched roles halfway through, for whatever reason. Also, the one with full penetration.

To be fair, Garfunkel and Oates were/are the consensus pick because nobody can name another female comedy duo.

It's a comedy, but there are no jokes! LOUIS CK INNOVATES COMEDY

I think it's worth pointing out that, whatever we think of Gawker's reporting on this, the CK rumors were around before Gawker reported on them.

Selina's reaction to the possible Tibet deal was the first moment where I really felt Iannucci's loss: she came across as cartoonishly ambitious–which she is, of course, but earlier seasons handled that with a bit more nuance.

1) 'that vocal technique that was super trendy among those guys, like “word up!” I just hate that sound so much': she does know that 'Word Up' and 'Return of the Mack' were a decade apart, right? How is that a trend?

Nader was a necessary but not sufficient cause of Gore losing in 2000. (Without him Florida isn't close enough to steal.)

That bit really reminded be of why I hate Jon Stewart: 'well we gotta make fun of Democrats for *something* so let's blow this small thing up.' Indeed that 'sinking to his level' bullshit is the sort of attitude that sunk Kerry.

IIRC there are loads of music permission issues with Northern Exposure; I imagine that's part of what's keeping it off streaming services.

If TED talkers were 'speaking wisdom' rather than warmed-over-Tom-Friedman neoliberal cliches that usually lean on questionable evolutionary theory, I'd agree with you.