Her husband has been advocating against their children's school being rezoned.

There comes a point where sympathy for very wealthy people's living standards becomes onerous for everyone else: the possibility of Samantha Bee having purchased a home beyond her considerable means for access to a good school is probably the Platonic ideal of that.

Murder is unlawful.

You do. There's both common law and statutory provision.

He didn't murder the other man; he was attacked and he acted in self-defense.

Because pointing out a truth about a person's circumstance doesn't inevitably trigger a judgement about that person's character. A discourse that implies one, like you're encouraging, is not one I'm interested in participating in.

No, he's talented and hard-working and I'm sure his career was a product of both those things and a thousand others within and outside his control. As I'm sure circumnavigating a gatekeeper system that takes others 10+ years to bypass (if they bypass it all) due to family pull was.

I didn't find the wedding speech to be cathartic and I think it was successful because it didn't try to engineer a strong sentiment (rah-rah or otherwise) from the audience; I mean, she is dragged from the reception screaming "I love you". I thought the episode was overlong and had dialogue two revisions from being…

Boris Johnson once wheeled his bike into me. He was surrounded by a milling crowd and looked confused and genuinely ill at ease.

And they had so many opportunities to explore those things. Say what you will about Fox but there were innumerable chances for the writers to investigate what the technology meant within a traditional network rubric. Like, the first season episode where Echo becomes a murder victim? I was waiting for the procedural…

The idea is based on fete competitions where the emphasis is (meant to be) on community and where winning is a function of excellence. They seem to weed almost everybody who would threaten that out during casting.

He doesn't pay sufficient attention to the implications of his own thought so the thematic work in his shows can only be so sophisticated. Like, the fifth season of Angel, which is probably the most fertile ground any of his shows had for exploring moral issues was one long, saddening wuss out. Dollhouse,…

I think 'imperialistic' is fair enough. The kind of economy of social capital that has built up online around these issues requires you to agree with a set of premises that hold for America but not elsewhere and often various elsewheres get drafted in or reshaped as grist for the mill.

She wasn't a talented performer, certainly in the early 90s, but her songwriting was really extraordinary. Like, the above write-up of What Makes You Happy discusses 2% of what the song itself discusses; hell, you could get an article out of the line "I can see the sky above me like a full recovery".

Meg White is a really bad drummer.

They're highly thought of novels.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?

But oddly Hot Fuzz's structure makes it feel flabby, not tight. The same goes for the other two Pegg/Wright movies and it's incidentally the major weakness with them all. By The World's End, I was prepared for the first two fifths of the film to sacrifice jokes to set up and that's a long time to sit through…

There's nothing I can add to the specific points under discussion beyond what I've written.

I can't believe I know this but: Robert had some distant Targaryen relative that partially legitimised him. Was that in the show? I can't remember.