From everything I've read about the book — including the real Larry's Modern Love (of course) column, the real Piper probably doesn't have the depth or self-awareness of the fictional Piper. Which is saying something.

I feel you. Sports Night is a show that talks about sports in a way that would pass inspection if it's background noise, but to someone who knows about sports and follows it, doesn't quite hook together. They talk about sports in the wrong season, they have glaring errors and simplifications, and to someone who…

But it's easy to be oblivious and dickish and not destructive when you're not being challenged in any way. George Michael never threatened Michael in the earlier seasons (except by liking Ann), so Michael never got to express the destructive aspect. Now George Michael is growing up, and *that* threatens Michael. When…

I don't know, I'm rewatching season 2 right now, and it's amazing how much of a dick Michael is *to* George Michael, especially when it comes to Ann.  Michael doesn't act in George Michael's best interests, he acts in his perception of what George Michael's best interests are. Along with that, Michael is blind to any…

Ah, no, I grew up near Lucy the Elephant, and Lucy the Elephant clearly has a purpose: to be awesome.

My only date in high school came the summer after senior year, where my friends decided that a friend of theirs from another high school, who was planning on becoming a priest, was only doing so because he thought no girl would ever like him. So obviously, they turned to me, repressed Jewish girl who had never kissed…

He actually strongly resembles my bubbe, if he'd only attempted a combover.

I disliked everyone in the book and I disliked myself while reading the book, but I kept reading, so there must have been something redeeming going for it?

Not at all true. Soldiers on duty carry guns, but they don't keep their army guns. Gun licenses for personal use are very hard to get. They think we're crazy for allowing so many guns here.

I think your 4th point is actually the most important part of this — whatever Zimmerman did or didn't do (and I believe that the only reason he thought Trayvon Martin was suspicious in the first place was because of Martin's race), the police department of Sanford, Florida did not think that the case was worthy of…

I'm not sure if the liberal/conservative thing holds out — does Harriet ever show Matt how to hold his gun? — because the Dana/Sam relationship isn't based on partisan ideology. I also disagree with you that Harriet wears the pants in that relationship, because neither of them wear the pants, they are two fucked-up,…

Mansplaining is actually less about the information being conveyed, and more about the tone and assumptions present. Here are definitions: http://www.urbandictionary…. and http://en.wiktionary.org/wi…

This movie is missing an upbeat J-POP theme song.

Is being Peter Parker's boyfriend trading up from being Abed's? Or maybe he's doing it for Abed?

@eric827:disqus - I don't remember if Will is supposed to be experienced with guns or not. My assumption that he isn't comes from me showing my (Texan, gun-liking, gun-control supporting) husband that scene, and him going, "there is no way in hell anyone in that scene has ever used a gun."

Yeah, agreed. And the explicit assumption that a guy who has no particular experience with guns obviously can disarm a woman no matter how much experience she has, and that this is supposed to be sexy…I'm caught between triggering a panic attack and writing angry letters on behalf of gun-owners who know that…

I've talked before how I sort of imprinted on this show as a pre-teen and didn't realize how fucked up the relationships are until now, but even as a teen, there was something really, really weird to me about how Dana instantly goes completely kittenish submissive toward Sam once he showed her how to handle her gun.…

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus - That's no longer a universal standard by a long shot. While anecdotes aren't the same thing as data, I have a male friend in a pretty conservative county in Texas who was awarded primary custody by the courts: his ex-wife's lawyer had been banking on the "she's their…

Honestly, this is the most galling part of it:

Yeah, I'm far from being an evolutionary biologist, so I was oversimplifying. I just wanted to point out that homosexuality isn't something humanity invented (post-1984) for shits and giggles, but something that occurs over and over in nature.