The fact that this week's SNL had sketches about Willy Wonka and Sean Spicer made me wish they'd worked in a Violet Beauregarde reference in the Spicer sketch because of his compulsive gum-chewing.

I would've replied earlier, but your comment wasn't here then.

OK. but I'm guessing Brooks was named after the other Albert Einstein, whereas I was thinking of people who had the same name by coincidence.

What's the most unusual name shared by two famous people who aren't related? Jon Favreau and Peyton List also come to mind for me.

Hate to say it after all they did to come as close to a title as they did, but I think the Falcons kinda deserved to lose after all the mistakes they made. Sure, luck was a factor, but it's hard to get away with as many blunders as they made.

Picard didn't save them, Nikolai Rozhenko did against Picard's orders. I don't see how Picard's position was any more defensible than Archer's; they were basically the same "it would be wrong to interfere with fate" crap.

Picard refused to prevent a genocide in "Homeward."

What did Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, and Lenny Bruce think?

"Is Sabbath wrong too, man?"

I think the idea that they think both sides are equally bad is out of date; they made it pretty clear in their pre-election episodes that they thought Trump was a lot worse than Hillary.

"What with our hoohas leaking blood…"

Yeah, I think the fact that his success was so baffling led some people to believe he was some secretly crafty political genius when he was really just throwing crap at the wall and getting lucky. We didn't underestimate him, we underestimated people's willingness to go for his stupid shit.

"I like people who don't get stranded on an island."

"The bald guy from Lost?"

"He's all the wrong lessons from Hobbes, with no tempering of a Locke or Rosseau to make him palatable."

I don't see why the players' views should prevent anyone for rooting for their favorite team. In 1984 the Padres made their first World Series with three pitchers(Dave Dravecky, Eric Show, and Mark Thurmond) who were members of the John Birch Society, plus a famous Republican at first base in Steve Garvey. Should…

As Peter Cook pointed out, all the satire directed at Hitler didn't do a thing to stop him.

How important can satire be if it failed to stop Trump from becoming president? All the meltdowns he's had over people making fun of him didn't do a damn thing.

How is the show racist? Sure, they make fun of minorities; I don't see how they do it in a way that's nastier than the way they make fun of everyone else.

The invasion of Iraq had already happened, and Kerry voted for it.