Louie has claimed in interviews he stole the asshole bit from him

is birbiglia even a big enough figure to be tiresome? Is Chris Gethard overexposed?

I agree, and of course, a character's viewpoint should not be mistaken for the author's viewpoint.

I don't know. I think of it less like a movie, and more like a short story. A lot of these indie games give me the same pleasure i get our of reading a good short story. You don't need all that information. Too much information kind of sucks.

I like tom petty, and I feel like he got consistently better and better and writing the perfect pop song. Singles only, I'm not sure there's an american songwriter I'd easily put above him.

The premiere was ok, but tonight had me laughing out loud. I love how dark it's already getting.

Unlike the rest of you pasty nerds, i never watched much Star Trek, but until this article i never realized how cool and unique Picard was. Almost every mainstream sci-fi and/or adventure hero is some version of Kirk/Han Solo/Indiana Jones. Picard was not only a nerd hero, he was a *nerd* hero. And not in the cheap…

I just wanted to go back into my post history and find this argument now that the rest of the Guccifier emails are getting released by wikileaks. I think every day between now and the convention. Day one: trial ballooning ways to attack Sanders atheism. The DNC was, functionally, the Hillary Clinton campaign from day…

So now that the rest of these hacked emails have started coming out, do you still think it was such a stretch? The DNC was the Hillary camp, from the start.

More than anything, I agree with the part where splorch says I have the best reactions. Fuck off, everyone here who isnt me.

Oh, for sure. That's where the comparison breaks down. Under Stewart, TDS had a consistent viewpoint, and even if in retrospect it was maybe not always as radical or subversive as I'd like, it wasn't disingenuous.

Don't get me wrong, I voting for Hillary. Even ignoring what a terrible president he'd be, I think even hardcore liberals need to realize that this moment, where they feel frustrated that all their complaints are given less priority because "Trump is literally Hitler"— just like under GWB, this will be the new status…

I actually understood what this guy was talking about, especially the part where he shits on Hamilton, which is the worst. Not saying I agree with it, but when you pare away the weird parts where he makes being pro-cop a liberal problem, he's trying to say that Jon Stewart is the reverse of Trump—political junk food…

Hillary is the reason that many liberals feel demoralized. It's not that democrats don't like her—she's the focus grouped median democrat— it's that liberals like me are disillusioned with the whole thing.

Most conservatives just anointed Trump their candidate. I would also obviously like to think of myself as a dispassionate logician, but my point is that that's a minority.

Do you really believe people are swayed by facts? You can't argue people out of a position they didn't argue themselves into, and Trump didn't win the nomination by being right the most times.

I'm not saying that FDR was a saint. I'm not even criticizing Obama for not being a saint. But jesus christ, FDR, sincere or not, used his economic catastrophe to create actual reform in the way the country allocated its wealth. Maybe it was because the rich really thought the wolves were at the door. Maybe it's…

This is important. Post-Reagan, the modern Democrat has completed abdicated any claim they ever had to being economic leftists. This is the result of 40 years of neoliberal economic policies from *both* sides. Even Obama, who has been a good steward of the economy for the last 8 years, seems to have his end goal as…

No, he just killed non-American muslims indiscriminately with drone strikes

No, I agree with that. Obama was the steward for the country in a time of crisis, much in the way FDR was. Much in the way GWB or Trump could never be. But while we're getting caught up in Obama hagiography, i think it's important to point out he's nowhere near as liberal—especially for his time, but possibly just in…