I think it's pretty clearly a satire. It uses dark humor, but the point of the film is social criticism. Why do we, as a society, flock to movies where the young are punished for being young? What appeals to us about the spectacle of violence and horror?

No, to use the distinction made above, Scary Movie is a comedy, but lacks any humor.

This explains your Walking Dead reviews.

I wonder how much of this is just age. I have more interesting things to do with my life than see an 8-bit splash screen (or maybe brief pixel art movie), so I doubt victory would have the same allure for me. That said, I remember fondly the feeling of absolute triumph that came with beating a hard game back in the…

It's true. The idea that everyone from a Spanish-speaking country is non-white is pretty American. Brazil, for example, has a massive German Brazilian population. They're as white as it gets, aside from speaking (Brazilian) Portuguese, but for U.S. purposes they would be classified as "Latino." More or less the…

You just linked to an article that states that there's a high incidence of CTE in the NFL, but Rugby is pretty tough too! Come back when you've got actual evidence of long-term, permanent brain damage in high school students. (e.g. http://blogs.edweek.org/edw…

"Tough" is moving the goalposts, and not a meaningful term. Running a marathon requires a kind of toughness, maybe even a mental toughness greater than contact sports. The claim that rugby fans always make, and that Skeletons made above, is that rugby is "the violence of hockey and the mechanics of football" without…

This is a futile argument. Rugby fans are the Crossfit fans of contact sports: it doesn't matter that NFL players tackle each other with, on average, three times as much force as Rugby players, because Rugby players are more generalist and don't wear padding and, uh, there's the scrum or whatever.

I had never realized how different the sports cultures were between England and America until right now.

Bush's assertion of the unitary executive theory was important, but it's sanitized relative to a lot of the other things he did. Like a lot of separation of powers legal theories, it's not even really clear that acceptance of the Bush theory of the unitary executive would necessarily be a bad thing, long run.

A baseball team winning a single game does not constitute "success." The worst record any professional baseball team has ever recorded was the 1916 Athletics, who still managed to pick up 36 wins. Coincidentally, the best single season record belongs to the 1906 Chicago Cubs, who won 116 games in the regular season,…

They don't need a comedy show. Ask me how I know :(

And to think, once upon a time the only work her people could get was elected office.

It's called the Panhandle. Jeez.

It takes a lot of effort to make decisions as badly as Bush/Cheney. Trump doesn't have a Paul Wolfowitz or a Project for a New American Century to whisper sweet nothings in his ear. He'd be another Harding: openly plundering, but generally too narcissistic and dumb to do much of anything.

That's not fair. Buchanan was a horrible president, but he also was also faced with the toughest domestic situation that America has ever seen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but other than being kind of middle-of-the-road on slavery for his era (which is horrible), wasn't he just kind of a weak, do-nothing incompetent?

No one in Chicago wants to laugh right now, AV Club.

You're aware that it's been 107 years since they last succeeded?

Further support for the long-time fan theory that "Great Job, Internet" is intended sarcastically.

Uh, rugby is neoliberalism? It poses as a tough man's game, but its true base consists of upper class English who refer to their parents as mater and pater and, truth be told, it's kind of a second rate, less popular, less violent, less damaging version of its American cousin.