I'm reading this comment section a month later and I'm dying of laughter reading these things fyi

Stewart was absolute self-indulgent bullshit when he started compared to Kilborn's time on the show, and by the end of his run Stewart was back to being absolute self-indulgent bullshit. Craig Kilborn did his best to catch up on that count, to be fair, but I greatly miss the Kilborn/early Stewart years when the…

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In happier related news, I just watched The Right Stuff again.

"the swerve of her proclaiming everlasting love and loyalty to Homer before being immediately won over with new dad’s promise of pony shopping about as big a betrayal of who Lisa is as has ever been done. (“I’ll Skype you at Christmas,” is my least favorite Lisa line in memory.)"

This was interesting stuff, if a bit of a review for me, but I really wish we would hear and see less of people on YouTube when they're presenting information like this. Step back and let the viewer soak it in - no one will be disappointed if they don't see the host's face in a video like this one.

Network equipment on the wall is never a good look.

More like Tom Harpy! Not really, he seems very good-natured, just a joke for you there.

I love the cuteness of "endless cycle of political extremes", since neither major party in the U.S. has done anything to the left but attack it, and it's been that way since before the writer was even born, most likely.

"Political correctness" is a right-wing myth, conjured by the Republicans in the 1990s to criticize certain campus policies that don't exist today. The phrase has a shambling, undead life today because most right-wingers are behind the times, naturally. If you use this phrase, you're ceding the field to the far right.

Only the Herzog joke is funny, because it bothers to involve the picture.

Everyone here is very presumptuous with one another in terms of physical space and sociability, which makes sense: We’re all here united

The fact that you're defining yourself by an advertising catchphrase means the advertisers won the game of you.

We need to stop buying the marketing-lit line that "generations" exist. How much money your parents have will matter greatly to your experience of life and the values you adopt. The date you were born? Not so much, not when compared to everyone else you'll ever encounter while alive.

"Millennials do something" is a stupid thesis on its face because "Millennial" is a marketing slogan made up by the least rigorous discipline in the academy, that is, "business". It's been adopted since because it's a way for desperate researchers to pimp their results and chase grant money, since it's how advertisers…

…yet!

I imagine that many people from many walks of life relate to this show. The error is assuming that because you are A and also B, all A are B and all B are A. That's how you end up with adults with stories about "Millennials" (i.e., stories where they saw someone do something that fits their unexamined notions.)

If someone starts talking about "Generation X" or "Millennials" around you, check they haven't stolen your wallet. That's hoakum marketing crap used to divide workers and tailor products. You want a real predictor of values? Try economic class. "Suddenly, I have an opinion on the capital gains tax!"