Well, he's got Jesse's testimony against Walt too, right?

A lot worse than Don Draper, really. If Don Draper was your friend, he would just bang your wife, whereas Walter White would have your whole family murdered if they threatened his meth operation.

It's so edgy and in my face! First I was like "Whoah, who brought the nerd?", you know, because of the love of science. But then I noticed the use off the F-word, and I was like "Whoah, these guys are badasses - definitely nothing nerdy about them, even if they do really, really love science!"

Oh I'm familiar with Bernie and Phil - I'm Rhode Island-bred. So I'm also familiar with ridiculous accents, and bad local furniture commercials in general.. See also: Nick, Rawn, and Pete Cahdi, and the guy from Joahdan's Funitchah.

That's actually a great point - he's already proven that he can play the smug, arrogant douchey side -Bruce Wayne - really well. I guess we'll have to see if he can do the driven, haunted side of Batman. Maybe he can, based on his performance in The Town, which was pretty gritty.

Hey, I'll be happy as long as he recycles his accent from Goodwill Hunting and The Town: "Hey Supahman, we gawta team up to fight the freakin' Riddlah!"

I would think squats or something similar would be preferable for tightening and toning the chin-glutes.

Law & Order : The One Where They Say "Panties" a Lot and It's Pretty Entertaining but You Always Feel Kinda Gross After Watching It

Damn, does that mean I have to stop referring to Dan Brown as the "Emerson of Exeter" now?

The Wire also understood that you can have a bleak scenario and setting, and still have snappy dialogue, witty characters, and humor ("Is you takin' notes on a criminal fuckin' conspiracy?" etc.). This is just Scowly Cops in the Gloomy City.

I know, it's so unfair!

I'm going to write an experiment in fictional thinking about how Orson Scott Card will, based on his penchant for writing shower-wrestling scenes involving soaped-up pre-pubescent boys in space, shortly leave his family and move to a beach in Thailand to dally with 12-year-old boys, until he is arrested and brought to…

"he has never had to work for a living, and he has never had to struggle to accomplish goals."
Yeah, becoming a professor of law is wicked easy.

Pandering, too.

Haha, same here! Love that line. Also, the earlier line "This is kinda awesome".

What I wonder is, when are you going to suck it up and get to work on your First Novel of Ass? Who do you think you are, the George Saunders of Ass?

Scorn towards the manual labor sucks - I say this as someone who's done a lot of manual labor and carpentry - but so does scorn towards white-collar workers. I've met smart people and dumbasses, assholes and great people, in both settings. Being a lawyer doesn't make you better than anyone else, but being a truck…

I heard about this ad campaign (the print ads), and I thought "wow, that's pretty clever". Then I stumbled on Naked and Afraid on tv, and I thought "Hmm, is this a parody from that PBS campaign I heard about?" Then I realized it was a real show. And then I was sad.

Nah, I don't think the point was "ha, ha, look at these stupid uneducated landscapers!" It's more making fun of the banal stuff that gets made into reality tv - Parking Lot Wars, Storage Wars, truck drivers, etc. Landscaping is a valuable profession, but watching guys do landscaping on tv would be pretty silly, right?…

No way that's 75 feet. People always overestimate height when talking about jumping off stuff.