Articles about him mention statements by his lawyers, so at a minimum he was paying for advice and representation, which can cost a lot with major firms. It looks like the statute of limitations prevented criminal charges from being filed, but if a settlement was made before a civil suit was filed we wouldn’t…

The weird thing for me about this approach is how bad they are at it. Nobody, not even diehard CNN watchers, thinks Dana Bash or Wolf Blitzer are anything at all. And while someone might argue that cable news audiences like tedium, the declining ratings suggest it’s a losing strategy.

It is possible he signed everything away and isn’t getting a dime from this. Total buyouts happen. I can easily imagine him selling them off to raise money for legal expenses. But it still stinks and I don’t see the logic here for Nick.

I am very familiar with a bunch of recipes from the original Moosewood Cookbook from lots of potlucks. It was not a good cookbook.

What’s really dumb is NBC had the example of New Years Eve in 1970s Times Square practically out their front door. The only reason Dick Clark got out alive was they had 100 security guys forming a wall just off camera.

Newman in 1977 had always built up at least one layer of irony and often went for the triple layer double reverse serving of irony, so that even the straightforward stuff he did would bathe in the reflected light of all that irony.

The difference in acting ability between Brimley and Cruise in that clip is quite something. You can practically see Cruise ticking off in his head the list of scripted reactions — first look at the other guy for one half second then take a deep breath then hold it for three seconds then look at Brimley then shake…

Regarding an internal clock, when I was a kid I read a book about an escape plot from a German POW camp, and the English author described an old boarding school trick for waking up at a set time in the middle of the night. Bounce your head on your pillow before going to sleep three times for a 3 AM wakeup, four times…

One look at the photo above makes clear he was not, in fact, “gonna learn how to fly - high!” and probably had a vertical leap of, at most eight inches. And while he may have smoked cigarettes during his lifetime, he was not going to “light up the sky like a flame - fame!” At most, he might have shot off several…

You need a large funnel and about forty feet of stretchy surgical tubing. Cut two holes on opposite sides of the wide end of the funnel about the size of a dime, and cover the edges with tape.

Tennant’s Shakespeare Uncovered episode on Hamlet is really good. I think it may be streaming on the PBS app.

That’s her point when she talks about seeing it versus reading it.

There are all kinds of examples of romantic comedies from the generation before him stretching back through time. The only way you can really say this is to rely on some kind of twisty formal definition that works backwards to exclude them.

A dismembered starfish can grow a new starfish from its severed limbs. So maybe ten year old SpongeBob met a version of Patrick that had then gone through a repeated cycle of brutal hacking and chopping.

After reading the whole Vanity Fair article, I think they’re only talking about toning down the cosmetic aspects of Trump, not the rest, which seems like a reasonable decision. I think when you’re doing closeups on a high definition big screen TV, a 100% realistic depiction of the physical aspects of Trump would be…

The gang of idiots is back to not sticking to sports.

Matt Berry’s transformation from a vampire into a regular human bartender was the an incredible thing to behold. I’m still not sure how he pulled it off.

One of the things that strikes me is how the mainstream political press are definitely not, as some people insist, out for the clicks or the ad dollars. There is no way it makes sense from a simple dollars and cents perspective to turn Trump’s dabbling with snake oil medicine show quackery into a bland disagreement…

“These revelations come via Will Sommer at The Daily Beast, who dug deep into the career of Dr. Stella Immanuel”

Was Bubba Ho Tep any good? The idea of Bruce Campbell as Elvis (he was great as 1970s Reagan in Fargo) and Ossie Davis as JFK sounds like it could be good. I never got a sense if this worked, though.