See that sentence would seem like the best thing ever but there’s no way its as good as those two things. I know Jesse Armstrong wrote Loop but is it alot like the Thick of It style?

I get editing, but why would the AVClub want to cut whole parts to meet a word count? Its the internet, you don’t have to worry about cutting trees down for paper. Isint the business model make as many pages per article as you can to sell ad space on?

IDK if other late night shows have the same schedule but Letterman’s practice of filming two shows on Thursday made the Friday show have pretty much the same bits as the Thursday one.

How could Tumblr be created to tap into the same audience as Twitter in 2007 when Twitter didn’t start until 2008?

You might be aware of this but Death of Stalin is just one of many works by Armando Iannucci that all have the same style. Check out In the Loop or the tv show The Thick of It.

Lincoln was pretty up front that the fought the civil war in order to keep the union together not to free slaves, though he did ultimately believe that the union could not exist with slavery either.

Civil war was definitely about slavery, the South were unarguably fighting for the right to keep slaves, but I think it might be more accurate to describe the North as not fighting so much to end slavery but to keep the union together.  

Not an anime purist by any means but I think its a reasonable position that any film adaptation of Cowboy Bebop that doesn’t begin with Kanno’s theme be an issue that the Hague war crimes tribunal take up.

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…

Is it a naive statement to say that eventually our quest for furthering the scientific understanding of reality will eventually hit a hard wall that is our brain’s capacity to comprehend the measurements and observations needed to go deeper into theory? Is is dumb to say that now with quantum as it would have been…

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.