The DOE taking this seriously.

Interesting. Didn’t know all that, but now I’m puzzled in a different way. If they weren’t financing it in any way (aside from maybe marketing), the show would be significantly cheaper than I originally thought. I figured they were losing money because of production costs, but would still grit their teeth and renew…

Seriously, get in on this. As a longtime AVClubber who’s read a ton of film and TV criticism here and appreciated pretty much all of it, I can tell you guys that this show is definitely worth watching. Zack’s reviews are great, too.

As a native of the Garden State, I was stuck there for a moment wondering what $40 worth of New Jersey would include. Then I thought “Now THERE’S a challenge!”

The caps lost a LOT of talent over the summer. But one could argue that the Caps had too much talent to begin with. You need talented guys, true, but you also need role-players to do the dirty work. Replace a skill guy like Johannsen with a workhorse like Wilson, who will dig the puck out and do the dirty work in the…

Excellent place to be really. His shows are just so goddamn brilliant.

The call is coming from INSIDE the house...

“We’re not defending the status quo, but everything is totally fine exactly the way it is!”

So noted.

Welcome to the rapid downslide of empire.

Welcome to late stage capitalism.

Give us a break. We’re not defending the status quo

Hey, I’m okay with that angle. Tell us more! Tell us when people do it. Tell us the amounts of money involved. Tell us which politicians are involved and which ones left the room with a smile on their faces before the actual money talk happened. Tell us every time it happens.

Roughly 0.3% of the popular got Dennis Miller’s references and “humor”. I call it the Dennis Miller ratio. That hasn’t changed despite his politics.

DickyMaeglesGhost: Would you feel that way if your wife/daughter/sister/mother/friend was the alleged victim in the case in which he was indicted? Not snarking, just asking.

First of all, indictments don’t just fall out of this air.

They do that now too, as a side note.

It’s almost as if we have always lived in a patriarchal power structure where (mostly rich, white) males hold power at every level of government and court and are incentivized either consciously or subconsciously to maintain and exploit their power.

Because women have so much to gain and so little to lose by making false accusations?

I wouldn't call Philippa Gregory's work "lightly" fictionalized. A shitload of it is just made up wholesale - and I say this as someone who enjoys her work as silly bodice-rippers. That's all they should be taken as, because if you want actual history, you'd do better to look at Alison Weir; for historical fiction…