Linguistics profs and the most desperately needy of philosophers might stand for it but otherwise even a Latin PhD using an MRI machine to pull ink from layers of papyrus or a Medieval historian using DNA swabs to trace the ur-sheep from which his tomes were scraped would not degrade themselves by applying the label…

You'd think that, but this is a race that is buying ad time for two different TV spots and running constant polling. She's got a big operation and so does her foe.

I ya cain't see how the other side of the quad all turning up murderers wouldn't alternately horrify and delight Professor von Classics I got a few shelves of 'two cultures' meditations you can cascade your bones down.

I can't see Eli as amoral, I think he's pragmatic and has a very specific sense of professional loyalty, but he's also clearly very focused on larger ethical and moral concerns in a way that's harder to see for other characters. Maybe Diane? But you see it less with her in many ways since her style of action is so…

In terms of earlier seasons, I find it increasingly telling that they don't seem to be doing much work with legal aid anymore. That was a huge plot point for Diane in earlier seasons and resulted in some of the best individual episodes for Alicia.

Yeah, she really seems like a person who has become increasingly considered without being terribly deliberate. Early season Alicia seemed to have some moments of real introspection which Alicia seems to have more trouble with now, but she's also much more composed and, in some ways, agile which simultaneously could…

Though I think it's an interesting comment on privilege in its own right that so few of the characters they critique actually lose their privilege. Peter, for example, does go to jail and does lose his marriage and his home, but he's also leveraged that into a better job and has always had the privilege of a strong…

What I find myself wondering repeatedly is how or whether having access to the past-Avatars would prove effective in countering the potential effects of PTSD or similar traumas on the chosen avatar.

* Enter Overqualified Researchers *
"We have found a solution! A name that will offend no specific special interest group! Prepare for the presentation!"
* Stunned silence in wake of Hell's Own Powerpoint *
"Soooo… I'm to understand 'Everyone' is also a group we are trying to placate?"

"And your paperwork, kid, geez. This reads like you lured 50 addled teenagers and shutins to produce three different versions of the same confession, barely edited it together, and then attached a vaguely relevant rorshack emoji as a signature."

Pennies are among the forms of currency most effectively sprayed via hose. Dimes are usually a strong incentive, though.

If maturing ain't different from growing up we're really gonna need a Kwisatz Haderach.

The comics are delightful. Some of my favorites to read aloud, so I'm nervous about watching the show and having my preconceptions get polluted.

Well, not a full reversal - a conversation where Cookie and random commentators have to decide who among them will be the hot one is the first step down a sticky sticky slippery ant-lion-esque slope at the bottom of which lie El Dan and Dickachu.

Can't not give ups for 'gaslighting bullshit' as a phrase.

I know it isn't, because unless you are a cyborg St. Alia of the Knife you have been commentin' FAR too long for growing up to be an issue.

I would put my money in a hose and just spray it at movie theaters for all the freetime in the afternoon the eventual DVDs of that would give me.

Snowcrash knew what it was doing.

* Pours flagon on curb for clarity *

The way Moosewrestler worked it in there? Almost as though he or she wasn't bragging or making certain everyone knew he or she was only crazy enough to wrestle Meese and not so crazy as to soliloquy loudly.