Sam, important question here, how can you defend this site’s lack of a policy requiring every article to mention Yoko Kanno at least once?

For a general history and some science content one, I cannot recommend In Our Time by the BBC highly enough, very concise and entertaining while still being extremely  academic

When I see people bring up Stalin or Mao as examples of the dangers of Marxism, it strikes me as odd because in order for it to be an apt criticism, wouldn’t you have to assume that Stalin and Mao tried their best to implement their styles of communism without any loss of life but the tenets of communism required that…

I don’t know if it applies here but as someone who’s probably a fan of podcasts more than any other media source, it infuriates me that all major best of podcast lists seem to be written by people who are just fans of NPR and are just listening to the same pedestrian centrist liberal takes on a different format. Some…

Thats gotta be a rare take on the Pixies. There’s so much in that genre that literally goes out of the way to be antagonistic to the listener but Pixies are the ones that tried to be catchy for the most part. Do you not like Nirvana either?

You calling Jean Smart white trash? Also, did the son have sex with Roz or am I remembering that wrong?

I definitely agreed at the time but the second one’s Amos and Andy parody is one of the funniest single things they’ve ever done.

We (the taxpayer) do not pay his or any other federal employee’s salary. The Federal Government does not finance spending through tax money or borrowing.

I’m a super hard liner when it comes to classic vs modern Simpsons but the season 11 ones people have mentioned on this thread, to me at least, are in such an other class than the blandless, cringy last decade and a half. I still quote alot of things from those episodes not even realizing how late they are. To me, the…

Not a Sublime completest but I’m familiar with most of the catalog, was there a lot of songs with brass sections in them? 

Weird, Im an attorney but i cant say ive ever seen the part of the courthouse where all these immigrants are being found guilty by a jury of their peers, which is kinda a big requirement to being called a criminal in this country.

Thanks, I guess i meant its more like King Arthur than D&D but now that I mention it they dont mention christianity at all

Maybe this is dumb but I assumed the Witcher books took place in a fantasy version of this universe? Like isint it supposed to take place in medieval europe, just with fantasy elements? 

I would argue that if you read far enough to get to Crowley, you’d be less creeped out. Crowley is kind of a bridge between the modern and the ancient as far as all these things go but you can see that for him it was kind of a joke or an act, kinda like Marilyn Manson, its just the last vestiges of seeing all this occu…

Can I ask what career you are getting that geography major for?

Fan of Ninth Gate then?

And Ninth Gate.

The rise in suicide over that long a period has probably more to do with the rise in life expectancy than a rise in depression though there is probably statistical rise there too due to more normalization of treatment. Look at the rate of suicide by age groups and you’ll see the elderly commit suicide at a rate orders…

I loved the exposition bit at the end but that’s just my taste. However, during that two people got up and left, apparently THAT was the last straw.