Sort of. Zworykin and Farnsworth worked independently initially. Farnsworth had figured out problems that Zworykin was having and vice versa. Farnsworth was the first to have a working prototype, though.

I'll allow it.

The British will point to John Logie Baird, who in the late 1920's invented a "television" that involved a bunch of spinning glass orbs and wasn't very good, as opposed to the system invented by Phil T. Farnsworth which utilized cathode ray tubes and was the standard for decades. Both had working prototypes at about…

I think they're less concerned with the content of the show and more with the paycheck it provides her (and subsequently, the church).

Crazy? Clint Eastwood as an art professor that moonlights as an assassin and is also an expert mountain climber? That sounds crazy to you?

The movie that inspired the title of last week's episode of Archer.

Sketches of Spain would be fantastic.

I like the idea of continuing Fantasia, but was generally disappointed with Fantasia 2000. I thought the Rhapsody in Blue and Firebird suite segments were impressive, though. Every frame of Fantasia is a piece of brilliant art, but Fantasia 2000 seemed like it was missing something.

I was just noticing how bad Marah is at pouring a beer. Savage.

I sympathize. I actively hated KISS when I saw them live (the ticket was free), and it was the best show I've ever been to. I still hate KISS, but would see them again in a heartbeat, provided I wouldn't have to pay.

I liked him purely for the way he pronounced "bi-kini."

After reading about him, what bothered me the most was the amount of people who still view him as beyond reproach. I read several articles about the Jesse Ventura fiasco and was pretty disgusted at how Ventura was viewed as a monster who had deeply wronged a patriotic widow. Never mind the fact that Kyle straight up…

Just read up on Chris Kyle and you won't feel too bad about criticizing him. He was one of those jingoistic assholes that you don't really care for.

I'd maybe put Last of the Mohicans above Public Enemies, but otherwise I think you nailed it.

The sad part about that is that eastern Iowa is substantially more liberal than western Iowa, and Iowa as a whole is more liberal than a lot of other states. I'll defend Iowa City to my grave, it's an oasis, and it makes me understand cities like Austin, Chapel Hill, and Athens, Ga much better.

I have a hard time seeing Iowa as a red state, but I lived in Iowa City for a long time and it is very definitely not indicative of the rest of the state. After Joni Ernst, though, I'm not even going to bother standing up for Iowa's politics.

So then housing costs in upstate New York will give me a good idea of how much an apartment in Manhattan would cost?

I lived in Iowa City for 11 years. For $800, you could maybe get a really shitty house pretty far from downtown. A decent house, somewhere near downtown would cost at least $1000, but probably more like $1200. In most of the rest of Iowa, $800 would almost certainly be enough for a pretty decent house. The rest of…

Grievous Bodily Harm?

I know someone from Calgary who describes Alberta as being Canada's Texas. He's very proud of that, inexplicably.