If I could take only one PJ Harvey song to a desert island with me, it would probably be 'The River'. "Lackluster" album my ass.

Yup. Their electoral strategy for the next 7 years has zero to do with expanding their tent or recruiting new voters and everything to do with sabotaging the gears of democracy: gerrymandering, voter suppression, electoral fraud, etc. They don't give two shits that they're on the wrong side of public opinion when it…

Why do you think no "serious" GOPer (Thune, Daniels, etc.) ran in 2012? They would have had to join the circus just to be the one to lose to Obama.  Romney either didn't know any better or really wanted to be president. Probably both.

@avclub-29c594132a7542399441bf2bf3e8f9f1:disqus It was reported in NY and LA but not specifically in New Haven (at least as far as I know; I didn't closely follow New Haven's Occupy).  But it's been shown that law enforcement agencies across the country took their cues from how NY dealt with Occupy and used the same…

The mainstream media carefully ignored Occupy Wall Street for nearly a month.  When it did start covering it, it was from a "dirty hippies are annoying Wall Streeters on their way to work" angle. But they had to start covering it from the other side when public opinion turned out to be in favor of Occupy (despite the…

You do know that police were rounding up homeless people and sending them to the Occupy camps, right?

I'm not sure which offended me more: the ongoing Sorkin misogyny on display as Maggie goes into unprofessional little girl mode and interrupts a staff meeting to wax hysteric about medication and a supposed-to-be-busy Mac mocks Dev Patel for doing his job, or the fact that the show, which otherwise overplays its 20/20…

"No one took those dudes seriously until the cops started hassling them."

…Narp?

I've said this before and I'll say it again: you could teach a semester-long master class in film editing based just on Hot Fuzz. The editing truly is a character in the film. It delivers the half the film's punch lines (and often the entire joke) while simultaneously matching the action films it satirizes/pays homage…

How do people not get bored by Wipeout? I was done after watching 3 people fail to clear an obstacle that is clearly un-clearable. 5 minutes in and I was already wondering how well awesome pro-athletes and such would do (and how much more interesting it would be to watch) instead of clowns who just rolled off the…

It's probably to avoid false advertising charges. Everything can't be "on sale" all the time. Otherwise, it's not a sale.

His dad owned a jacket factory or something. That should make you feel better.

"it was a nice suit"

PS Brooks Brothers has a big semi-annual sale going on right now. Up to 75% off.

About half my work shirts and most of my pants are Brooks Brothers. But I tend to think of them as mid-tier.

Sociopathy doesn't mean malevolence (that's antisocial personality disorder). It just means a lack of empathy.

My favorite racial slur continues to be 'ching chong Chinaman'.

Glenn is probably a high-functioning sociopath and is therefore manipulative and shallowly charismatic. Girls are gonna flock to him.

"Don Draper, please meet Bob Benson. He's replacing Carl Clarkson, who's leaving because his entire CV is a lie."