Putin negotiated a viewing of The Empire Strikes Back on May the 4th, in which a heroic leader protects his brave troops from both a terrorist uprising and a robed pedophile cult.

Yep. If people take a simplistic view of history, they often try to cherrypick to build a narrative that fits how they'd like to feel about the past. It's a stake in the ground, a marker of identity, more than it is an intellectual position.

It was to preserve the Union. If the South had seceded over how long you could wear your pants there would still have been a civil war, because America's basically the Hotel California: once you're in you can't leave.

There's no crying in baseball.
- T.Hanks

They've gone the wrong way with balancing since then: they made Frank foolish instead of making his opponents smarter.

But they spelled 'metres' in Noah Webster's hyper-logical fashion — surely that is concession enough.

Not sure why in 2017 the AV Club staff are 100x more interested in Gorillaz than the average person.

I'd watch a documentary where it's just people talking about how terrible Mike Myers is to work with.

I was surprised how good this was. Will it play in Peoria? Nope.

No sequel? Welp, that was the only question I wanted Damon Lindelof to answer.

I got the feeling we were meant to remember that part of the wall in the garage was significant when Elizabeth was looking at it. Was the drywall patched after the struggle, or was something moved from that position, or what? It can't just be that the guy's entrunking occurred in the garage generally.

No, it's called Cloak And Dagger.

Trademark pork-and-talk.

Chuck's preferred analogies are (1) monkey, and (2) machinegun.

The Chantal thing at the end is an unwelcome turn towards trash TV.

Charmed is an awful show that only got the green light because it was the '90s. Witches were fashionable in the decade between vampires (1985-1995) and zombies (2005-present).

But hey, it was 99 cents.

"Nice guy. Holidays in Georgia, hands out gold fiddles to self-made small business owners."

Her head will be shaved in penance when the Bernie Bros flush the cruel oppressors from the land

David Fenton's ten times better at conveying trivial cultural appropriation in a song about the fleeting phases of teenage fakery.