Is it weird that I find people offended by "homophobia" in Eminem albums kind of disingenuous? I mean, he's really not homophobic. Pretty obviously so. If you're upset about his attitudes towards or lyrics about gay people, then I don't think you've really listened to his albums.

Self-described 4 Hour Erection following "Generic Asian Chick"? Someone should probably alert campus security.

Wouldn't the era-appropriate term be "hop house", or was that another term for an opium den?

There's also much better motivation for his suicidal behavior in the comic. Are there spoiler tags that can be used in these comments? I don't want to ruin the comic for anyone.

Oh that would be terrible. What if it spread and killed virtually everyone? Or worse: turned them into flesh-eating zombies!

I don't think the entire prison is cleared or secure, so that might be an impediment. Also, I imagine that for really virulent things prisons would send the ill to a hospital in restraints, which some prisons do for other serious injuries as well.

Why? What narrative purpose would that serve? What would the arc be?

Uh, I think you would call what happened finding out that Michonne lost a baby. Just sayin.

That doesn't make any sense. As demonstrated throughout human history, intelligence alone is not a great predictor of success at almost anything, let alone survival. Ability to work with others, discipline and physical strength are all probably better predictors of survival than IQ. While I don't think the…

I don't know if Boardwalk Empire really lacks a theme. I think it has bitten off more than it can chew, but it I think it does have an organizing, overarching idea that it is exploring. Boardwalk Empire, like Gangs of New York, is about the way that America has grown out of smaller-scale social structures. It…

WHAT ABOUT SHAQ HUH? EXPLAIN THAT, SCIENCE.

Thank you, pure and unfiltered voice of internet misogyny.

Thankfully, a preference for playing Final Fantasy XIV AAR instead of dancing and having sex is not, evolutionarily speaking, selected for.

There's just no way that Roy isn't a horrible person whom Gillian will regret ever meeting. I get a sense of uneasiness and dread whenever he's onscreen. Maybe it's just because Ron Livingston is slowly turning into a handsome Richard Nixon, but I have a feeling it's being shot to evoke that feeling for a reason.

Nucky isn't Enoch Johnson, though, so anything's actually fair game for him. He probably won't go to jail or die until the end of the series, but that's more for narrative reasons than historical ones.

No, I am honestly still not sure if you're playing along or if you actually tried to enlighten eshuster about the Irish-nes of the last name "O'Banion." It's okay, though, I'm savoring the mystery.

You can't tell if I'm kidding? HOW COULD I BE KIDDING? I VERY SPECIFICALLY NOTED IN MY FOLLOW-UP THAT IT IS A TOTALLY SERIOUS QUESTION! PLEASE ANSWER, I AM CONFUSED AND FRIGHTENED (HENCE ALL CAPS).

I don't see what that has to do with it. Please answer my totally serious question. As eshuster pointed out, also completely in earnest, it's really difficult to know when a name like "O'Banion" is Irish.

Really, so Oliver is an Irish name?

I have been chalking (ha ha) it up to his continuing feelings of resentment towards upper class, lighter-skinned blacks.