Just for the record, as a Canadian my perspective on Sinéad O'Connor's chart presence has always been a bit different. There's definitely a thesis argument that could be made about differences in the Canadian vs. US pop charts — I can't comprehensively put forward a whole coherent essay, but Sinéad's always been an…

To be fair, it was by far the easiest song in her repertoire to reconcile with mainstream tastes. And her next couple of albums after "I Do Not Want…" were heavily bogged down with pretty vacuous twaddle with only one or two songs that even qualified as remotely listenable (e.g. her cover of "All Apologies".) She…

As catapostrophe correctly points out (and quotes from), she gave an interview to Time magazine within one month of the incident in which she explained that she did it to protest child abuse in the church.

GERD

"If it exists, there is porn of it."

Some Russian sporting event that starts this week. Don't really know the details.

The mind control chip.

I already knew about "said the actress to the bishop" and I still didn't make that connection until you pointed it out. Damn my head!

I'm sure there's more than one variant out there.

It's a plot point that obviously comes up in a lot of shows, given that it is the real law. But if there wasn't at least a *little* bit of an AD allusion going on in this particular instance, I'll eat my hat.

The "Kentucky jelly" line confused me for a split second, until I remembered that Kentucky's two-letter post office code is KY.

Have you *heard* her version? "Funky-drummer sultriness and proto-trip-hop vibe" is *exactly* what she did with it — the drum loop is even sampled directly from James Brown's "Funky Drummer". (And that's not even to mention the "dance" remix, which threw snippets of Johnny Marr's "How Soon Is Now" guitar riff in too.)

She was very clear why she did it at the time. Maybe you tuned it out.

Trust me, don't assume that NC2U is representative of the whole album. It's literally the only song on the album that I *haven't* ever gone back to in the years since.

ITYM sublime anal massaging.

Well, to be fair, at least in theory it's possible for the line to have been simultaneously playing off *both* "Get in the boat, Rose" and Rose Nylund. Though my own reaction was totally Golden Girls too.

Not sure I follow that logic…considering that women are half the television viewing audience by themselves, add in gay men and you're *towering* over the potential audience for a show that only straight guys watch.

Most people's point, however, is that Lana's smart and competent enough to go somewhere *else* and get all those things. For the rest of Shithead Squadron, this is all they've got — Lana's got other options.

Well, we already know from the montage clips that once Cheryl Carol Marcy May Cherlene's music career begins to take off, they'll be drawn off the cocaine track at least a couple of times ("They've kidnapped Cherlene!", "You've got 12 hours to DRIVE to TEXAS?", etc.) by the need to entourage her.

Well, even a "successful" mission for ISIS always entailed lowering expectations. Their successes generally stemmed more from blind dumb luck than from basic competence at their jobs (they didn't exactly keep Pope Woodhouse II alive out of anything you could actually call "competence"); even their unqualified…