Ooh.

But then he shows up in whiteface and blacktooth in a Lynch-directed episode and he's suddenly scary as fuck. Other people could have performed the role better, I think, but the bulk of the blame has to be laid in the writers' room.

I wonder who came out of Blodgett's head orb.

The bug would have backed in.

This isn't entirely true. Most abusers were victims of abuse. But most victims of abuse do not become abusers. I don't have a particularly strong view of how that creates a moral demarcation (I don't believe in free will). But it is important to note the difference, because abuse victims are further victimized in…

As a Jew, I do have a bit of a problem with it to be honest. It's not like Oppenheimer did it just to get his grad-school funding. Which is of course separate from the moral questions about how nuclear weapons have been used and deployed since their creation.

Well, Albert suggests it.

I apparently got a free sample subscription from my cable provider. This has happened with HBO during Game of Thrones a couple times too. I don't quite get it.

Jinx! You owe @avclub-832d86d3a05e2b4973c329471ee9d6c4:disqus a coke.

Annette McCarthy remains a handsome woman.

The scariest scene ever broadcast on network television up to that time. Surpassed about a month later with a scene discussing the relative merits of life in MISSOULA, MONTANA!

Me too.

I like that Lucy Hale. Maybe she can be on something I'll watch now.

I saw that Cheers, probably for about the last time. I would catch the occasional one off in later years (mostly because a couple guys in my fraternity were big fans, so syndicated reruns were often on), but it wasn't a show that I made an effort to watch anymore.

I'm currently in the middle of a New Yorker article from a week or two ago about six people wrongfully convicted of a 1989 murder in Nebraska, largely because their shrink kept telling them they did it until they decided he must know what he's talking about. And of course, that was the period of the Satanic Ritual…

Gotta light?

My wife used to work in Foggy Bottom, where political thrillers get shot with some frequency. She got Harrison Ford's autograph and saw Will Smith through her office windows.

That's how you're supposed to feel in a functioning democracy.

Party discipline on procedural votes has collapsed in recent decades, with most Senators most of the time now voting the same on preliminary votes as they plan to vote on the bill itself. Not exclusively, but for the most part.

I bet Ben Cardin is a champ in the sack. Van Hollen, not sure.