What hugalugah said ….

Except for Sanctified

I saw them play right around the time this came out in a place called the Peppermint Beach Club in Norfolk VA. Curiously, Meat Beat Manifesto opened for them. NIN had built up some buzz coming through twice that year, first opening for Jesus and Mary Chain and then for Peter Murphy. I don't know what the Pepermint…

Mmm Breckenridge. I remember that one. In that area (well, to us southerners it's in that area), I like Park City Brewery also. Polygamy Porter - take one home to the wives!

Lone Tom, the Palo Alto is fantastic not hard to find here in Knoxville so i imagine you should be able to track it down (I seem to think you are in Lexington for some reason). The nice thing about Dogfish Head is that they make several beers (Raison, Palo Alto, Midas Touch) that I just cannot describe to people. They…

And, anyone who pulls a quote from a capsule of "Adaption" without including the part of the sentence that negates it probably doesn't "get" how to comment in the AV Club.

Minneapolis, surprisingly cool. New York, awesome but best vantage points are on a boat. Hong Kong when they do the light and laser show all over the city is pretty tough to beat, especially when you can take a 15 train ride up the peak and then look down on it. Shanghai is really nice also.

What is with the additional trailer?
Anyone have any idea why they are showing that additional "weeks ahead" trailer after the fir … er …. other one?There were a lot of spoilers I wish I hadn't seen in there. It seems as if maybe ratings are sagging a bit and they are cramming every exciting moment into it in an…

Well Played, Joff.

Well said, Horse. I have been guilty of making the Beck/Moore comparison myself and the truth is that it is bullshit. Moore does exaggerate and take things out of context and I deplore that, but there is a difference between that and the sort of wholesale manufacture of a narrative that Beck carries out. There is also…

really? I love his political writing but hate his sports writing. I just think the style doesn't transfer to somewhere where the outrage just isn't warranted.

You have to accept some people, but they don't have to be the one's in charge. Volcker was sitting right there in the White House with some pretty damn good ideas, but he was marginalized. Krugman was up at Columbia drooling over his phone waiting for a call. Warren has been there for two years waiting.

Taibbi was pretty accurate in pointing out that AIG didn't collapse …. it was killed by Goldman, who then received billions from the CDS it had outstanding with AIG. In bankruptcy, these were paid at a 100% rate, which is simply astounding. Goldman's role in purposely designing CDS and CDO to fail is also well…

Well said, MFSP.

And FidelAstro, that shit going on in the USA blew up and fucked up the whole world. So, unless you are a sustenance farmer in Tanzania or something, I imagine it affected you and having some interest in it would probably not be a bad thing.

I'd agree with all that, Whata. I don't want to insinuate that all cops have dangerous motives. I am sure that most of them join because they need a job and they like the idea of helping people. Those people, the ones who stumble into it, are probably great cops.

I have always thought that Policeman, like President, is one of those jobs that wanting to do it should be automatic disqualification from doing it. People want it for the wrong reasons, and Van Alden's character is a good illustration of that. He is a little over the top, but there are plenty of examples in history…

I think they are trying to make a point about the status of women in America at the time. Prostitution was rampant. Large cities had hundreds of thousands of prostitutes and it was one of the only ways for a woman on her own to make it. Sex wasn't available outside that system because women were not available outside…

Exactly, phodreaw. However, I definitely would not put Jared Diamond in a class with those guys. He is a fairly renowned scholar, not just a popularizer. And, I find Gladwell to be fairly entertaining. It's not original research, but doesn't propose to be.

Well played Watcho. Award him ten internets.