So your theory is that Jon Stewart is basically a long-con double agent, lying about his background and not, in fact, calling out the news media for its failure to inform us, the Congress for its impotence and two successive administrations, one from each party, for their failings, that he was not an almost isolated…

I'm going to guess you're not old enough to have been of voting age during the Bush presidency.

No, one of them has to be wrong in this situation and thus a fatally flawed human being who doesn't deserve to live.

What if he was right and the impression was funny? What if there's more context here than "Wyatt Cenac spoke up one time and yelled at?" What if an anecdote about how someone yelled in a writer's room tells us fuck all about why that happened or even what happened, because of the total lack of context?

Is it, though? Old and now-irrelevant white man from Florida who rose to prominence through professional wrestling is racist. Not even scary, organized racist, like being a member of the KKK or a Neo-Nazi, just disappointingly typical racist. And we have discovered this because the "news" organization that bought a…

The more I watch Seinfeld, the more I realize that he, and not Larry David, is actually the meaner and more nihilist of the pair. Larry David is kind of a jerk; Jerry Seinfeld is malicious, albeit in pretty petty ways.

Can we leave Gawker's mudwrestling to Gawker, please?

It's not easier or harder for them, because it's completely made up. The laws of physics don't apply, because if they did, they wouldn't be tearing steel with their bare hands. Someone having weird shoulder armor or a cape is literally the least unrealistic thing about the entire scenario.

Arguing practicality with super hero costumes is just crazy. Carol doesn't need to worry about her "arms and legs [being] as free as possible", nor does Superman, because they can tear steel with their bare hands.

Yeah, but how much brush has Obama cleared?

Just because it's safe doesn't mean it's not true.

It helps if you think of Fantastic Four as a movie made in the Fantastic Four universe where the Human Torch and Thing are playing themselves, and Reed and Sue aren't taking part for reasons that are fun to think up.

So, I haven't read the new book yet, but does no one agree with the argument that Atticus was basically racist in the first book? I mean, noble man and well-intentioned and all that, but still kind of a metaphor for a deeply racist America whose noble impulses and institutions, like the rule of law, carry seeds of…

No, who would ever think that?

Man, I love comics, but I really hope you're in on the joke here. Because if you're writing:

This is like the Third English Civil War. Except with nerds. And if the Third English Civil War was really over the points of theological distinction between Anglicanism and Presbyterianism instead of actual power.

I've read that the original "go pound sand" was "not enough sense to pound sand down a rathole," which migrated to "go pound sand" (i.e. do a menial task that even a simpleton could do) which, in the clean cut and gee whiz world of WW II G.I.s became "go pound sand up your ass."

Have I not seen you all over both Game of Thrones reviews for the last four years?

A.A. Dowd's superpower would be that he gives every villain a D.

I recognize that I'm an extremist on this point, but I won't subscribe to Hulu because it shows ads, even if it offers an ad-free service. I want that entire genre of advertising to die, for shows no longer to be made to be chopped up by commercial breaks, and for short form film to finally be divorced from shilling…