You'd never catch HIMYM making a rookie mistake like that.

Eh, I'm not sure about all this.  When we talk about politics, we're not usually talking about wonky policy details, but about serious and deep-seated issues of ethics and worldview.  It's not exactly trivial or random to be interested in what a piece of writing has to say about human nature and the difference between…

Eh, I'm not sure about all this.  When we talk about politics, we're not usually talking about wonky policy details, but about serious and deep-seated issues of ethics and worldview.  It's not exactly trivial or random to be interested in what a piece of writing has to say about human nature and the difference between…

Seriously, you thought Dan was awesome in this situation?  My very least favorite thing about Sorkin is his insistence that a dude chasing down a woman who won't date him and berating her about her lousy taste in men is Totally Romantic and proves what a stand-up guy he is.  I can't think of a single other episode…

Seriously, you thought Dan was awesome in this situation?  My very least favorite thing about Sorkin is his insistence that a dude chasing down a woman who won't date him and berating her about her lousy taste in men is Totally Romantic and proves what a stand-up guy he is.  I can't think of a single other episode…

I think you're quite right, although you sound unpleasantly as if you see nothing wrong with this whatsoever.  Chris Brown continues to endure a backlash, of sorts, because people like the woman he beat up.  For the most part, the women Charlie Sheen assaults are non-famous and frequently work in the sex industry —…

I think you're quite right, although you sound unpleasantly as if you see nothing wrong with this whatsoever.  Chris Brown continues to endure a backlash, of sorts, because people like the woman he beat up.  For the most part, the women Charlie Sheen assaults are non-famous and frequently work in the sex industry —…

"Women are pretty unqualified, though, aren't they?" is, actually, a little casually misogynist.  I hate to be an asshole, since I know you're trying, but yes, it is.

Jimmy McNulty is actually an insufferable twat, too.

Mimsy, I get your frustration that the show never really shows women as part of geek culture, which we totally are. It's that same tired joke about how people who, whatever, go to cons or know the titles of Star Trek episodes, will never see a boob, completely ignoring the reality that tons of us own a set.

What would make you assume it's a board full of childless people? I've been hanging out here for two years now, and I've heard plenty of people talk about their kids. Heck, some people have had *additional* kids in those two years!

A friend of mine who was raised by a father of the beatings-are-good-for-you school once told me that he learned one thing and one thing only from his dad's idea of discipline: that it is possible, if you are larger and more powerful than someone else, to hurt them. A lesson I suppose we all have to learn, but it…

It's actually about The Gays. I vividly remember the commotion that one line caused, including a recut version of the song that the label tried to distribute to country stations who wouldn't play the grandly offensive actual version. I also remember Garth Brooks throwing one of those sturdy, laconic country fella…

I've been wondering the same thing about Lafayette these last couple of episodes. We know Maryann can't take control of superpowered types — is this the show's way of dropping hints that there's something not-totally-human about Andy and Lafayette? Hoyt, too?

Only unlike most of his peers, Timberlake has never really tanked. He's pretty much uniformly been praised and rewarded for everything he's ever done, except for a few youthful dorkinesses that folks usually (QUITE RIGHTLY) blame on Lou Perlman. Parker Lewis loses more than this kid does.

I have read the books. They're a whole weird ball of twisted sexual shame issues, which is why they culminate in Bella's wholesome, punishing pregnancy where the creature inside her has to be chewed out of her body. Oh, and the stuff surrounding her Deflowering, where they argue about whether or not he could ever do…

you're taking this at face-value? really?
It seems fairly obvious to me that this is meant to be subversive irony. There's no effing way I would honestly believe that people who work a professional sex-toy gig aren't hip to how grossly anti-sex and anti-female pleasure the Twilight books are — which is exactly why…

I'd be less worried that they weren't pretty enough and more worried that they were into that gross purity ring nonsense.

So you'd like them better if they were just superfans of a grittily realistic series of novels that featured a main character more appropriate to their station in life, so they don't give anyone the impression that they've forgotten for one second that *in reality,* they'll never deserve anyone who looks like Robert…

They mean he's no relation to the Alec/Billy/Steven continuum.