Hey, fuck you. We're at least better than New Hampshire and large swaths of Mass.

You'd think that with drug usage rates basically equal across races it'd turn out that way. But for some reason, it doesn't. I'd suspect something, but racism ended when Reagan got elected.

Oh, I love Parks and Rec. I don't know if it's better or worse than it once was, I watch it to see the bonds between the characters and how they grow. It's just never reached 30 Rock's level to me. I think it's just in how they look at the world differently. There's a sorta manic existentialism that makes me always…

It really has been fantastic so far. It feels like it came fully formed out the gate, which is especially rare for sitcoms. I really hope it does not get cancelled.

I've watched more 30 Rock this year than any other show, a trend I suspect will continue now that it's over. I don't care about the rules, it'll always top my lists.

Kinda. That is super contradictory. I meant more how Jindal seems to imply that he wishes that Miley would have incurred some backlash, but since she did not, neither should Robertson. And making that a part of your argument. The Bashir thing is just being a hypocrite.

It would possibly be a gross breach of separation of powers. But sometimes strong men (with law degrees) need to stand up to the nerds (with law degrees). Just because you're in a robe, doesn't mean you can't receive a weggy.

Though I'd qualify your purely, I think that's kinda what makes this interesting. I asked about pot up on the thread (Discus kept your comment for loading or I would have just asked it here), but marijuana would be the place an amnesty would/could be offered. I think it gets complicated by distribution charges and…

Very true. I'm not really advocating that we try such a thing. It's just something that would never be considered here. And it's not like we don't have a shit ton of prisoners lying around.

China would outbit us by 50,000.

Could there be something similar for pot smokers if/when that gets legalized on a federal level? It's the only plausible scenario I can think of.

What I think is really weird about the argument is how it looks for other examples of behaviors some may not like (i.e. Miley) and seems to suggest that they should have been punished. It's like, you can't make an argument based on principles by contradicting your principles.

Man, how do you think an amnesty bill would be treated in America? We just don't do that sort of thing here. People would get pissed.

Yeah, I mean, I like the Carver stories it's adapted from, so the bleakness didn't bother me too much. But it's definitely grim. If you watch it again, I think the Tomlin/Waits relationship is pretty beautifully done.

A film professor lent me the film after we watched Short Cuts in class. I don't have much to say, other than I loved just about everything about it. It started me on a serious Altman kick.

I unironically (By which I mean, detached from the film's ironic usage) used that song on a mix tape once. She really liked it, so it has a warm place in my heart.

I actually really liked Sophie, certainly more than the boys Frances moved in with. And I liked how the film implied how conflicted she was and how unable Frances was to see it. There was just something about Frances I didn't respond to. I wasn't convinced she was in any sort of pain. Hopefully, that comes off as…

It never felt like anything truly got fucked up though. It was all really repairable or trivial.

I thought a lot about whether my own gender bias had something to do with my negative reaction to it. I've always found the economic aspects of Baumbach's films to be a little off-putting. I think that set me off more than anything gender related. The way her rock-bottoming involved working at a 40k a year school with…

We should have a knife fight in a movie theater.