All right, we've left the TV question behind — that's good, I think. The less we talk about aesthetic judgments here, the better.

Yes, entirely serious. The first observation is based on the fact that I have virtually no knowledge of the sex lives of my co-workers. Surely that's not hard to believe; as I noted above, I suspect most people are in approximately this position. Although I admit that people who do carefully investigate their…

Well done. I wouldn't have made that connection myself, but now that you mention it, the logic speaks for itself.

No. If you think I care how you feel about Mike Tyson as a person, you're still overdramatizing. My only view is that everyone should make up their own minds about that.

You make good points.

I don't have anything invested in this show I don't watch, nor in Mike Tyson's acting career. (Although intellectual honesty requires an admission that he was pretty excellent in The Hangover.)

Anyone who calls a prison sentence "a free pass" might also call an automatic weapon a "freedom stick."

He was surprisingly excellent in The Hangover.

"She was gifted in music, multi-lingual, had dreams grounded in reality and the talent to catch up to them" (South Bend Tribune).

You have a very different definition of "nerdy" than I do.

That's actually a pretty excellent and substantive answer.

(although [Emma] Stone tries a little too hard to play a bombshell)

The first space-warping drive will be labeled in Chinese. What's the Chinese translation for "warp drive," I wonder?

+1

+1.

It'll happen to you too. And that's if you're lucky.

Why isn't all sports journalism this clear and concise? Kudos.

You're talking about a Twitter account, right? The 2012 equivalent of an AOL floppy disk, right?

I like everything Wes Anderson does. I even like his ads. Feel free to direct all your incoherent anti-tweeisms at me.

I've often thought to myself, in a secret place in my heart, that an astonishing number of action movies are so poorly edited that you can't possibly follow the action...which is presumably the movies' reason for existing.