This is a solid joke, but like a lot of the good ones, it's based on the reality of the huge problem that arises when one party has set itself up as being opposed to certain basic facts.

Yeah, education is great, but I'd argue that one problem is actually that we overestimate its efficacy at sorting the wheat from the chaff. Being as vague as possible, I once worked for a school that insisted its teachers had PhDs. 100% PhD staff was the long-term goal. The problem is, it wasn't a great school, and…

Hahaha, yeah man! All the best treaties were signed at gunpoint. It's the only way to make the world safe; I don't get why more people don't get that!

He supported the Brady Bill. The INF treaty was a step in the right direction, although it's possible to debate how much of that was really down to him, personally, and his Cold War policy overall was more complicated.

Benoist seems really into the role in a way that's kind of fun, and I'm glad they're giving female-led comics a shot, too.

Hey, 1972 is shocked - shocked! - by these startling developments in entertainment. (Well, sorta. A bit. Really, I guess the first one goes back to at least the Iliad, and the second one is kinda in the Bible.)

Ip Man has my all-time favorite historical rewrite in cinema, where the lead character's decision to flee the city is replaced by his personally kicking the ass of the occupying Japanese commander in gladiatorial single combat.

In this case, though, we're talking about the VMAs. "Banal, crass, and substance-free" was actually used in the promo spots.

On the other hand, they have to listen to Train lyrics nearly every day, so they've arguably been punished enough.

The various Star Trek series have found cures for aging, flawless, instantaneous cloning technology, and all sorts of godlike abilities. Somewhere in the first five episodes of TOS, they discover time travel at will tech and agree to just sorta keep it in their back pocket in case they need it later.

Well, it's always a pleasure to have a reasonable disagreement with someone on the internet! On my end, this is really only meant as a constructive critique of a show that I find a lot to like about, and I certainly begrudge no one for enjoying it.

I feel like a lot of these letters are people just looking for affirmation or someone else to tell them what they already know. I have a hard time believing that you get to the end of a letter that's like "she has deep-seated psychological problems, she hates everything I like and do, and she seems to be physically…

Actually, this is a reasonable point. One assumes this might be marginally less true in Black Panther, but probably 20-80% of the credit for the action scenes in something like Avengers or Iron Man should go to the effects team.

The main show is basically out of story material, having done riffs on the "This place is safe - oh, shit, no it's not" cycle five or six times already. I know it's a cable ratings powerhouse, but in a world where money didn't exist, it would be absolutely baffling that anyone would think starting a second version…

"I don't think the show means to portray drug dealing as a good thing but so far Alison's suffered no negative consequences from that."

There is functionally zero chance that Peter won't be back. They killed Wolverine less than a year ago, and I pretty much guarantee the end of this thing sees him back again.

In the broad strokes, that might be what Alison's intended place is, but in the specific, the "this is the ideal" reading of her life is heavily undercut by drug-dealing misadventures. The message would come through more clearly if she was either entirely absent after season one or less prone to self-medicating and…

Yeah, in addition to the Searchers, there are half dozen undeniable major achievements in the field that have political viewpoints that just seem wrongheaded in retrospect - Triump of the Will, Birth of a Nation, and less dramatically, On the Waterfront all spring to mind — things that you could call a travesty…

I agree with most of this, but I think I just see it as more of an issue than you do.

"We were trying to be like Weeds!" does come off as kind of unfortunate in this context…