Oh elephants are far from defenseless. Their legal lobby alone…

So long ago I worked at a comic book store with a team freakazoids and this episode was key to one of my top ten most postmodern working days. On this particular day the manager, high on a potent cocktail of bitterness and boredom, decided to play that episode on repeat all day long. This store didn't even have a TV,…

Also, how is Eli Gold and his army of web crawlers not on this issue already? Is there any way he wouldn't pick up on the daughter of his first client being advertised on a peeping website?

Yeah, you're right that's less a failure as a parent than a failure as a critical thinker and public figure - also a failure as a parent.

One thing Owen has on Zach, though? I think Owen has a better sense of how dangerous and essential secrets can be.

Right… better bring those dice out from behind the screen mister Ninth Level Spell Caster, if that is your true arcane potency!

Meh, nothing wrong with Grace getting into guns as a thing on its own. Guns are really cool as things. If you aren't acclimated to them being shot at your or simply seeing them as a marker of political opposition/social problems then they are just sporting and potentially pretty objects. Pretty certain Grace hasn't…

I don't know that they're so much monopolizing the supply as trying to neutralize it with condemninum

What struck me as off about Quayle's comment was exactly that, that if single parenting is so problematic how does that not make it more in need of support rather than less?

Actually, that's FAR from the worst response I can think of.

I had the opposite reaction. I knew a lot of Southern Baptists, I feared a lot of Southern Baptists, I wasn't entirely sanguine about a Southern Baptist family in the White House.

I don't think it's simply fear, my reading is that the foundation for empathy changes - at least as you change in our society - so that when you're younger shame has more impact on how you connect to people and as you age it becomes more a question of sympathy at hurts and then cries for recompense.

If this is earliest TV show memory rather than earliest memory and we aren't counting children's shows then…

Bush the Younger was usually characterized more by verbal stumbles and poor timing. So there would need to be misspellings and poor costume choices in addition.

I remember the ensemble being really great, but that it's structure meant it had to rely on Murphy too much for dynamism and that really started to weigh things down.

She actually semi-accepted quite a few offers from relevant dudes in her life to help out.

I don't know that it really went that far (housewives were probably less of a relevant group then than they are now, so the lady at home thing was sunk) but it did play off of a paranoia that people were entering the workplace and then contributing to the great deposit of fucked up family lives the 70s had left the…

To be fair, Quayle really made himself out to be an idiot and the media just reported it.

I'd argue there are different narratives of stupidity involved with each case.

Yeah, I think it's more that he kept on serving from Nixon's stale buffet after Reagan had turned out a dessert bar that - even if you weren't down for all the pie - at least demonstrated some real skill.