Those quick takes by the younger generation are interesting to me too, but I think people forget that like a lot of shows (music, movies, fashion etc) Seinfeld was an acquired taste for many people even during the time it was airing. I guess I’m saying you don’t necessarily get the full effect after a few introductory…

1-Get married.

I always thought of Jerry as the sarcastic lens for regarding the more spectacular character’s antics.

Thanks! Us ladies really need the menfolk to tell us what to find attractive.

Echoes many instances of reality in my experience.

To what objective standard of “viable mates” are you referring? I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you’re a male person who probably wouldn’t evaluate men based on what the average woman would consider to be mating criteria.

Where are the Bauhaus fans

Ravenous is an awesome movie but I think I’ll have to rewatch to get the music — somehow I don’t remember it so well.

Thanks for Natural Born Killers. I was about to start angry-typing. I don’t think the movie has aged well; Oliver Stone was always a bit over the top but damn. A particularly good Leonard Cohen song. Cowboy Junkies singing Velvet Underground.  Patti Smith. The whole thing was pretty solid.

Screw the hipsters. I still listen to it.

I can’t believe I had to scroll this long for someone to mention Judgement Night. NO ONE saw the movie but EVERYONE had the soundtrack.

Wow I completely forgot about that movie. I grew up in the area and I remember wondering how there could be a movie that revolved around their cab drivers (I was 7 years old). I remember when cabs in D.C. finally abandoned the “zone” billing system and went back to using normal meters (no idea what they use now).…

My mistake, I missed the suspension part when you mentioned it the first time. I’m no lawyer but are there contexts in which say, groping someone’s ass is considered assault? Because I can see her rationalizing that it isn’t worthy of the same moral scrutiny as forced intercourse. Also if Bill was indeed penalized for…

I bet that she knew he was screwing around. It wouldn’t surprise me if they discussed it. Plenty of wives are ok with their husbands’ infidelities if they feel the advantages of staying with them are worth it (already not very feminist; I frankly don’t see why she gets called a feminist at all really. She’s an…

I have limited knowledge of government myself, but I was thinking that gun laws for example are perhaps also subject to county and city laws? Not that it makes your point about urban vs. rural voter influence any less relevant.

4. Taxidermied and displayed in a glass case at my high school

Nice analogy!

I am pretty sure she knew he was a cheater going way back. I remember her seeming completely unsurprised when the Lewinsky thing came up. Since she didn’t hear about anything worse than that for decades, she continued to operate based on the knowledge that he was a player and tried to make it work, for the sake of his…

I believe that at the time (although she should know better now) that she was supporting her husband to protect his career, not to silence rape victims. She knew he was a philanderer, and since she didn’t hear any different for 30 years she just carried on pretending like it wasn’t happening/wasn’t a big deal that he…