'Undecided voters' = uninformed voters. That SNL skit on undecided voters from a few years back was pretty much on point. And almost all of them actually have a partisan inclination that, if they do vote, they will follow. The number of voters actually undecided between voting R or D you could fit into a minor league…

Fun fact check: He was blind when writing PL, and he did dictate it to a number of amanuenses. But Milton dictating to his daughters seems to be mostly a legend (first suggested in Richardson's 1734 Life of Milton, which essentially says he called for his daughters when there was no one else around to record his…

I always hated Shakespeare for booking Charles to job out to that scrawny brat Orlando.

Paradise Lost was absolutely not 'state sponsored'. Milton was in semi-exile, a Republican who supported regicide and was almost executed after the Restoration. The state wanted to kill Milton, not sponsor his work. (Not that any literary work was 'state-sponsored' in the way we might use that term today.) Also, it's…

It was also at a slightly different pitch, I think. But yeah the fact that it clearly had that 'taped from radio' ambience made it work.

Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost, duh.

That is a great story; the thread about that song on New Wave Outpost (where the 'Stay (Second Time Around)' clip was first posted) is like a weird detective novel. Funny but unsurprising: once people heard the entire song the reaction was pretty much 'yeah, it's an ok song'.

Honestly let's just elect Trump so the world can end sooner. I can't take a lifetime of Vine/Youtube/Meme anniversaries.

You do occasionally find weird regional/indie/obviously payola songs at the lower rungs of the Billboard charts pre-soundscan. Shamus M'cool is one of the best examples:

Do you think he has a newsletter I can subscribe to?

LOL

I shudder to think about how this film portrays Huma Abedin.

Lisa, I would like to buy that rock.

It's absolutely Baby Boomer narcissism that keeps Catcher In the Rye on high school reading lists. It needs to go. Same with A Separate Peace.

I haven't done anything but wander around and hunt for Pokemon. Am I missing anything?

'Archduke'. I wondered the same thing; I assumed they treated it as a pronunciation variant, but I'm not familiar with that pronunciation.

Someone explain to me why Pranjal got credit for 'Catholics' when the intended correct answer was 'Quakers'. Alex said something about the question being ambiguous, but the way it was worded I thought Quakers was the only possible answer. That decision had some impact: it put final jeopardy out of reach for the other…

We were thinking that the economy was going to be awesome forever so it was no thing to drop $16 just to hear 'Blue' whenever we wanted.

I said the same thing above; I love CAG but it's their weakest record. Warehouse holds up with the SST stuff.

There's a printer in the basement you can use.