And he was kind of the villain on Big Love especially in season 4 and 5. Of course, his motives on the show reached absurd levels during those seasons which reflects the direction the show took after season 3.

I remember early on thinking "Huh, I might vote for him." since I wasn't a fan of either Clinton or Sanders (or any candidate for that matter) but then I read up on his tenure in Baltimore and I was immediately turned off. Seriously people, vote in your local races because it really does matter if you don't want shit…

There was a great article that pointed out that a lot of the issues with mass incarceration are largely local. As you stated, cities come up with BS just to arrest people. That was apparently an issue when Martin O'Malley was mayor of Baltimore in that he instituted a policy that arrested a shit load of people in…

Their movement is just another version of covering your ears and shouting, "Lalalala I can't hear you!"

I wonder where the #AllLivesMatter crowd is in all this. According to them, all lives matter so they should be angry over this just as much as they are angry about white people being killed by black people.

Wait a minute, this sounds like rock and/or roll.

I used to like Lunchables as a kid. Then, in college one day, I stopped in a 7/11 and saw they sold Lunchables and got one. I realized upon eating it why I stopped eating them years prior.

He always misses the mark it seems on a lot of these issues. Jon Stewart, in my opinion, always did a great job of being able to use his comedy that made a great point without it coming across as forced or a lost message. I agree with you that he is good at telling jokes and he is and he can be funny but it definitely…

That's my assessment of him as well. His style of comedy just doesn't fit with him sitting behind a desk and trying to take the mantle of one of the most popular and successful late night shows and having that satirical edge. His stand up specials are largely just slice of life things and reminiscing about his…

She did a piece on the NRA convention.

I knew Mandvi stopped doing correspondent segments for a while to work on The Brink. Madrigal was always unimpressive in his appearances on the show so I'm not too upset that he had other commitments.

Speaking of disappearing correspondents, Al Madrigal has only been on Noah's show once as has Aasif Mandvi and Kristen Schaal hasn't done a segment in a while. All three I assume have left the show formally.

I commented this a couple of months ago but it sure sounds like no one else was interested in taking the job. The only person who probably would have taken the job might have been John Oliver if he was still working there. Comedy Central wanted to go big with the hire but they were turned down by many people.

He's fine. I've accepted that unless he really grows into his role as host, he will never be the satirist that Jon Stewart was nor will he be as poignant as him. He does the occasional good segment like when he mocked both the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate for not passing gun legislation as a game show. It…

Reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit. It's not too bad but it can be tedious at times. The most interesting aspect of the book isn't Teddy Roosevelt or even William Howard Taft but of the journalists during that era. I wished that Goodwin would have focused more on the journalists than on trying to make a…

Since the weather has been so hot lately, I've had to do all my exercise inside so I'm doing ab work now. My mom has some exercise DVDs she is letting me use and since they have worked for her, I've given them a shot. It's going well and I feel different already.

Strangely, I'll forever associate Mike Huckabee with the writer's strike because I remember when Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Conan O'Brien were "fighting" over "Who Made Huckabee?" during the writer's strike as a way to fill content. That and the bigotry.

These are the blandiest series of bland movies that have ever bland in the history of bland.

It's gone past the point of gentrification. It won't be long until the entire city of Nashville becomes gentrified and I won't be able to afford to live there anymore.

I thought they should have cut off his dick. Seeing Sansa walk away like that made me pump my fists hard. That might be the most satisfying comeuppance that a villain in fiction has gotten since Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.