Haven't read any of the others, so can't speak to whether it's a deserving winner, but heartily seconded on the 'satisfying' assessment. I like its use of religion and its quiet interrogation of gender.

Three years after the fact, surely nobody is reading this, but WOW.

Wow.

Raising a glass to you, and to your glorious regiment of steely, self-possessed dames. You will be missed.

I broadly sympathise, but are you possibly confusing a greater esteem for Louie as a show with a greater esteem for the prowess of its leading man? I think Louie's a better and funnier show, but I also think Parsons is very good in his role.

I think Esposito's concern wasn't to refute the assertion- and allowing for the assertion to be provable or refutable is already playing into the hands of the insane, anyway.
You're right that the column is structured in such a way as to invite us to think that it's going to be a discussion, or a debate, but I actually…

Oh, sure, I didn't bother to proffer my opinion of Hitchens's reasoning (it's low) because I was concerned to respond to the the original poster's implicit assertion that the Hitchens article has nothing to do with Esposito's column. I was pointing out that Hitchens doesn't need to have said 'no woman can be funny'.…

WHAT THE HITCHENS ARTICLE IMPLICITLY ASSUMES:

Eh?

I have a question: would you be so concerned if the unheralded-as-such opinion coincided with your own? I, for instance, am willing to admit that I am quick to leap to the defence of reviewers issuing unpopular criticisms of work- criticisms with which I personally agree. I may not be so speedy if I didn't agree.

Surely you meant to preface that with 'In my opinion'?

Anyone else having flashbacks to the judge on The Good Wife who keeps telling lawyers to preface arguments with 'In my opinion'?

ha, yes. what i MIGHT like to see is amy moving in with sheldon, sheldon being extra insufferable to get her to leave, amy seemingly circuventing sheldon's arseholery (i don't know if my stomach lining could take that, though), sheldon finally caving and saying 'you were right, you were right, you are perfect, stay…

So-whisper it- I feel bad for Sheldon. Yes,he's a brat, but his distress is palpable and it's not so out-of-bounds for a genuine career crisis followed by big change to send someone with his….. unidentified condition…. to buckle.

(raises eyebrow) do tell. Is Tommy
a) easy-going?
b) a team-player?
c) boyfriend material?
d) promiscuous?

"I don't get why Penny is so freaked out by the stuff that she knows, it's not like it's super-geeky behind-the-scenes info or something, my dad most of that stuff, for goodness sake."

Yes, there was probably a way to mention his regeneration ( as suggested below) and make it clear that he was talking about The Doctor, without explicitly saying 'Doctor Who'.

Hooray for the show remembering that Amy and Bernadette are scientists! Hooray for Sheldon not being a complete tool! Hooray for Leonard and Penny being more charming together than I ever remember them! Hooray in general for nice, thoughtful character moments!

I believe Parsons was good in his Broadway roles, no? There's 'Harvey', and 'The Normal Heart'? Can't speak to whether they represent a stretch for him as an actor, but Sheldon Cooper seems fairly distinct from both those other roles.

Hee! Argh. Hee! Argh. Oh, God, it's too true. Amy's taken on the role of his grandmother (Meemaw, is that right?) when really she ought to be looking a generation up.