I was thinking about this the other day, wondering what a good replacement would be.

Yeah, I'm curious to see Todd's support for that statement. National characterizations and cultural generalizations aren't impossible to make, I guess, but I think they're damn tricky, and require substantial justification.

I just want to say Getting On with James Urbaniak is a pretty great podcast.

He's upset his Internet Movie Data doesn't even have a Base.

Thanks for the link, that is a good piece.

100% yes.

@avclub-23e846638607adcbc730817a77581220:disqus I thought Pete's hair reached a new stage this episode, and now you make me realize it's not unlike a Nixon-ish widow's peak of sorts.

Understandable; I do see where you're coming from.

Ironic musical counterpoint can so easily fall flat and clichéd, but damn I thought they pulled this one off. Continuing the audio of the television was icing.

What do we mean by nihilism here? That there is no possible meaning or value, including subjectively created meaning or value? Not just no objective meaning or value, but no meaning or value whatsoever?

Jon Huntsman? Though I guess he's actually a WASM.

I can't believe they cancelled this on a cliffhanger.

She's a loose-cannon comptroller…

But now you'll be elected President and start a nuclear war. Hmm.

It's the quotation marks that really do it.

It's a rich subject that truly deserves many interpretations in multiple media.

Do we all agree that Chicago Fire is probably the worst team name in professional sports? Sure, you have the post-move nonsensical ones, like the Jazz and the Lakers, and the almost delightfully stupid, like Real Salt Lake, but…the Chicago Fire. Man.

Four.

Don't you know, it's the new Watergate. So they tell me.

Typical European effeteness.