and his uncle being the only one laughing at it.

I have a way too elaborate theory that every political tv show takes place in an alternate universe where Bush Sr. won a second term. Bartlett then wins in 1996 and serves until 2004. If Obama is mentioned that means he was rejected by the party in 2012, and replaced by the fictional president.

it's not really an understanding of human behavior but some weird ideal of human behavior. All the emphasis is on economic theory and not economic history. So it ends up you can google "economics students protest textbooks" and you'll get thousands of different instances, because even they can tell there's a massive…

Using double spaces after a full-stop is only necessary when using a typewriter, because the period and words might smudge. With computers it's incredibly obvious and distracting when someone double-spaces.

We're missing "hastily re-edited."

Newswires and TV Club articles don't have any kind of supervision. That made sense when a lot of the heavy lifting was being done by people with editorial positions, but not so much right now.

The original headline is still in the url.

I honestly don't see any snark or condescension. Edit—on seeing other comments it seems they rightly edited the newswire. That was ghastly.

It's making its way from Oakland to Oklahoma City at the moment.

and just keep it to two leads. Four leads was just horseshit.

Chinese internet acted like it was Nanking all over again.

Same here. I read a lot of Barbara Tuchman in that time too, and motherfuck, everyone should've read those books back then.

What about literature 300 years ago? We have a lot from the 17th century but in 1716 Defoe and Swift were just getting going, with Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels being a few years off. Voltaire wasn't even Voltaire yet. The most important bit of literature produced that year in English was another volume in…

holy shit. you have the memory of a small child. it's a wonder you remember this show is even on every week. you must go to sleep wailing, certain that sleep is no different than death.

It's a really weird idea of fan-service.

No, it's been political as well. He was denied an adoption because Selina couldn't admit she had no idea how to use twitter.

It's honestly not then that shitheap of a boat he used to have. It's just his thing—every season he gets something new he's excited about but that will get torn into tatters by season's end.

a week long mean-drunk version of the Golden Globes.

There's another show that qualifies as a counter-example: Suburgatory. In it's three year run it had all of three episodes that aired earlier than intended—only one from the first season and none in the second (and the second was the only season that had multiple episodes airing on the same night). Ratings took a bit…

(the lead singer—appear shirtless whenever possible/slag off the guitarist whenever possible; guitarist—perfect near-lethal combinations of drugs/steal lead singer's wife; bassist—date supermodels/start new band with supermodel wife).