I find it interesting that so many of the Comedian-driven drama shows are from the same generation and (what was previously) alt-comedy scene. A lot of them, particularly the ones based in LA, got breaks doing Comedy Bang-Bang, but that when Scott Auckerman gets a chance to make a show he doesn't do a deeply personal…

I don't live in a swing state so my vote for president has the significance of a gnats fart AND I was a pretty solid Bernie supporter so my intention all along has been to write him in. However, her answer to that question has come very close to winning my vote. That answer really did seem like she had been struggling…

Every heard of Paul LePage? A man who once threatened to call out the National Guard against a Native American reservation over a dispute about fishing rights in a stream. A man who keeps a serial killer binder of newspaper clippings about drug arrests in Maine and only sees the black people in it. A man who has, on…

Yeah, I honestly have no idea how that could have turned out.

I always thought that Jackson's biggest scandal was that his wife was a whore (she wasn't). It's not a scandal if A. you're not ashamed of it, B. never try to hide it, and C. have to spend an hour a day being talked out of doing it to the men who called your wife a whore.

Yeah, realtalk about horse-race polling: it's largely bullshit. Favorability ratings are much better measures of public support. That's why this race was always going to be close. Both Clinton and Trump have absolute ceilings of support and neither hit 50%. This election is going to come down to who can get their base…

Kaine was a message to Wall Street, pure and simple. "Don't worry about any talk of regulation and reform because, when it comes down to it, we'll still be making money together."

To say nothing of Enterprise. Talk about a step backwards in female characters. T'Pol took two and a half seasons to find a personality (it wasn't a very good one) and Hoshi was the second-most forgettable character in the franchise… after Mayweather.

I'm not defending it, because that's just terrible, but I'm guessing that is a reference to Dan Ackroyd calling Jane Curtin an ignorant slut on SNL.

I'd probably say that Wrath of Khan is the best "movie, movie," but that TMP is probably the best "Star Trek" movie. It's really the only one that matches the franchise's overall themes of optimism and exploration. The next closest is probably The Undiscovered Country. Well, and Galaxy Quest.

I think Living Witness has to be the most underrated episode of the franchise.

I would also throw in 'Living Witness' by Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky as a surprisingly sophisticated meditation on the nature of cultural history with some laugh-out-loud actor moments to boot. I will never not enjoy evil Janeway gunning down unarmed prisoners at point blank range.

I believe that 'The Pirates of Orion' would disagree with you. While the animated series is not generally considered canon, it was created under Roddenberry's supervision with every expectation that it would be. Additionally, the characterization of the Orions set in that episode continued until Enterprise.

PJ O'Rourke is a southern NH conservative and would be a liberal in a southern or western state. In general, he's opposed to radical change rather than the rolling back of the clock that has defined modern conservatism.

I believe Mystique's dead wife was a clairvoyant who wrote a bunch of diary's about the future. I seem to recall that being a big part of X-Treme X-Men. I don't remember any of how that ended up though.

I've got to disagree with a fair amount of this argument. The main problem Clinton has run into again and again is the fact that her inner circle never challenges her on ANYTHING. That's why she does speeches to Wall Street when she KNOWS that she's going to run for president. That's why she thinks it's fine to run…

Free trade and economic globalization have the potential to do an enormous amount of good for the world as a whole, but the way it works now it largely benefits those at the very bottom of the worldwide socio-economic food chain and those at the very top. When your previous standard of living is "slowly starving to…

I've got to agree that Vox is usually below my local paper's opinion page in terms of political commentary for both a lack of insight and an overabundance of words, but that piece is vacuous. From the AI metaphor that was beyond tortured, to the Junta-esque assertion that because Klein and Yglesias aren't constantly,…

I think for the last two years or so CBB really only works in two situations: 1. The guests are super on board and excited to be there and get the show so much that it brings the energy up in the room. Examples: The Orphan Black cast-members who are huge fans or when they had that corporate attorney kickstarter backer…

Slight digression. Extreme Ghostbusters was an afternoon cartoon for me when I was a kid so it hit a sweetspot where I was just old enough to watch a cartoon about spooky ghosts without being legitimately scared, but not old enough to realize it was actually disappointing both as a Ghostbusters show and a piece of…