Holy shit, @avclub-8a3a60ca2371a13fd1e84043f75f2f31:disqus - did you actually see the actual, really-existing Peanuts TV special where it was all about some kid getting cancer and her hair falling out due to chemotherapy? Peanuts is twelve steps ahead of you.

And when the boyfriend drove away, there was a hook in his car door! And the call was coming from the basement!

Three-Panel Peanuts always seems redundant to me, given that regular, four-panel Peanuts is so depressing anyways.

I'll go with 2 and 3. Sheen's victims (plural - aside from the shooting, he's also just plain beaten a ton of women, threatened the lives of multiple partners, etc.) haven't been famous, so they "don't count." Abuse of women rarely does unless the women in question are already people we've been told to care about.…

But the thing is, Gibson beating (and threatening to kill) his girlfriend doesn't seem to be what's made him such a pariah - it's that he used racist language while doing so. Or at least, that's what coverage of Gibson would have one believe: he's constantly referred to as a "racist" or an "anti-semite," but not as "a…

GENEVIEVE KOSKI QUESTIONED MY COLLECTION OF "REAL GHOSTBUSTERS" ACTION FIGURES AND FOR THAT I CAN NEVER FORGIVE HER

Hipsters looking to be snotty about Wes Anderson movies should actually see them. He uses the Rolling Stones way, way, way more than he uses the Kinks.

De Vere died well before a bunch of Shakespeare's most famous plays were produced. And we do have poems and other writings from De Vere, that he wrote under his name, annnnd… they kinda suck.

I swore off Pratchett back in high school, too - all too often, he's merely clever when he's trying to be funny, and twee when he's trying to be clever. His characters are one-note gags I don't want to spend that much time with, his plots are formulaic and unsurprising, and his "social commentary" is bland and…

"In a brief volume that owes a serious debt to David Sedaris' Squirrel Seeks Chimpmunk"

Another day, another "why are there ladies in my homoerotic man-action movies?" complaint at the ol' AV Club.

Also, God said that humans are just bio-engineered death machines. It was on the universe's commentary track.

"I don't think I'm going to feel bad about marines wiping out a pack of
aliens that spent the first few minutes of the movie wiping out a colony
of humans."

Commentary tracks aren't canon. If Scott wants, he can make fifteen more cuts of the movie like he did with Blade Runner.

There's quite a spread between Bin Laden and Hitler - Hitler killed millions of people, while Bin Laden only killed, what, a little under three thousand? What I'm saying is, that's a great deal of variability in the badness of picture-taking; I would've expected at least a Pol Pot or a Kissinger to slip in there.

Yes, but that's the appeal. "Try our new grilled chicken! Tastes like child slavery."

"Why isn't there a larceny culture? Or a murder culture?"

OMG, you could hardly hear your conference call! Die in a fire, you yuppie shit.

TRUE STORY: I was recently arguing with someone about the death penalty when this other guy, overhearing us, walks up and says "why can't we just train serial killers to kill other killers, like on that show Dexter?"

You know what? I'd guess that none of the people here actually know much of anything regarding the intelligence of total strangers they have never met, and only see in movies and television when they're pretending to be other people.