Hoover wiretapped MLK.  Bobby, as AG under JFK, wiretapped the mob and gave the OK for assassinating Castro.  Just to get the facts straight.

I'm with you man - RFK was flawed, no doubt, but he's a fucking saint compared to what's around today.  I think a lot of people grew up with the Fake Good Guy politician, i.e. Clinton & Obama, and take that as the real article.  Anyone with any sense, in listening to the RFK speech posted above (on the night of MLK's…

"This elevator only goes to the basement, and someone made an awwwful mess down there…"

"Well most of it - I did wear a dress for a period in the forties.  Oh they had designers then!"

"I'll be dead in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missouri!"

The actual musical segment of A Streetcar Named Marge is one of the best pieces of satire in all of television.  It also prefigures and trumps Christopher Guest's entire ouevre.

"Is my upper lip supposed to bleed like this?"
"Probably."

"I just want my kids back."

Wooowww!

It is a good Lisa fantasy, but Bart's get me every time - nothing beats his pure enjoyment of disastrous future events foretold.

Another element at play is that historically, literature has been produced by the upper class, for the upper class (and sometimes with a downward trajectory towards the rabble, mostly in theater), at the very least because this was the only class that could read and write, and likely because they were the only class…

In many suburbs it does!

Dead on.  The First 48 is a great example.  Murderers are almost never as compelling as television would like them to be, and the process of solving crimes relies largely on grunt work and interrogation, not whiz-bang technology or the elaborate unraveling of cunningly devised plots.  Serial killers get a lot of…

The original, Danish version of The Killing (called Forbrydelsen in the native tongue) pretty much fits that bill.  There should be DVDs with English subs out there somewhere - its a huge hit in England.

Nail on the head right there - it isn't even so much the violence itself that's problematic, it's upon whom the violence is perpetrated.  CSI and SVU are absolutely reprehensible in this department, but nearly every network crime drama is guilty to a certain extent.  I imagine a meeting of male network execs deciding…

Saw him in public once - he is frighteningly thin.

Actually, snuff films have not "been around for ages."  In fact, they aren't around at all - they're just as much a myth as Satanic ritual killings.  Even a tiny bit of searching on the matter will tell you that.