What, no, Mimi/Izzy has nothing going for it. They don't even interact outside of one episode. Joe/Mimi is definitely A Thing, but the best Izzy pairing is Izzy/Yolei. Let the streams cross!

Yeah, the vaccine panel made me angry enough that I've had to stop watching. If Wilmore can't stop someone who is clearly spouting bullshit, then how can I trust any of the other panels on topics I don't know as well?

The non-Palin sketches can watched on Hulu later. Giving Palin even a smidgen of attention sucks out part of my soul.

Trying to spin this in the most — only — positive light I can think of, I guess Lorne is thinking, "well, her appearance in '08 gave SNL some of its best ratings ever, that must mean people want to see her."

More people in media should actually say that. Then maybe then 95% of the stupid questions would finally stop being asked.

Eh, but this film isn't making a statement about all Muslim women generally doing this, it's talking about one specific woman, and in his interview about the film Martin Starr even refers to her as someone who is not particularly religious, for whom wearing the hijab is probably more of a cultural/social thing than a…

Part of it might be that not as much time has passed: part of it may also be that we aren't allowing as huge waves of refugee immigration like we did at the end of the Korean and Vietnam wars. I personally know a lot of Arab-Americans who are pretty well integrated, but their parents came over in the 80s or 90s.

Not only have I personally witnessed this happen (well, eating McDonalds, but it's treif either way), on one occasion I have also seen a Chabad rabbi running after the guys and haranguing them saying "how dare you do this _while wearing a kipah_." So for that rabbi, it was worse to eat treif while wearing a kipah: for…

It's okay, I definitely enjoy the chipmunked version of "Stay with Me" better than the original.

You and I aren't in disagreement, but there was some "how dare Sophia choose her boss over Jake!" sentiment in the comments, and I chose your comment as a place to be explicit that Sophia's choice (oof) was not her choosing one man over another, but choosing herself and her goals over her relationship with Jake.

She picked a side, and it was herself (via her work). It's pretty clear that the DA office hates the cops as much as the cops hate the DAs, and now her boyfriend arrested her boss: what better way to prove that she's a team player to her coworkers than to rush to defend her boss against her boyfriend? Especially…

Yeah, I realized we're talking about different things. You're absolutely right that that's how the books get on the best-sellers list and get attention. (Dave Pelzer is infamous for it.) My bookstore got involved with the people who, hearing about the frenzied demand for books, went to buy them. The people who buy the…

Ah, I see. Yeah, that gets books onto best-sellers lists. On the other hand, when something gets a significant enough push (it's already on the best-sellers list, some radio host is hawking it nonstop), then people genuinely do buy them.

Can't speak for all bookstores (I worked for a regional chain from 2002-2005), but stores like ours, which had pretty much no storage space, only ordered what we thought we could sell, ergo what people demanded. We'd order between 3-10 of everything on the NYTimes bestsellers list every week, and occasionally order…

In this case, I think so. I mean, the books that I'm thinking of — Ann Coulter's, Sean Hannity's, the book that made the Swift boat accusations about Kerry (which got the most "VAST LIBERAL CONSPIRACY" comments when it was out of stock) — were not exactly heavy reading material, so I'm not surprised that people…

I actually got this reaction a fair bit when I was working in a bookstore and the conservative book of the moment was sold out. People would come in, demand the book, and when I'd say, "sorry, it's out of stock at the publisher's, they're printing more and we should get in copies by Tuesday," would accuse me of being…

It's interesting that you say "impressive", because that's true — it is more impressive to the audience when actors manage to get out the gamut of emotions in drama, rather than get a laugh as in comedy. So for audience reactions, maybe it's right that comedic actors doing drama gets automatic plaudits, because we…

Gross inaccuracy alert: as a UChicago grad, I must assert that no self-respecting UChicago professor would burst into giggles while high, allowing someone else to get the last word. As if.

That is really, deeply upsetting: it takes the movie from "potentially worth seeing for good performances" to "how dare you, Oscar bait".

It was definitely known before that episode of 30 Rock aired, as the civil complaint was made in spring of 2005. http://www.vulture.com/2014…