This week in glimpses into Captain Holt's personal life: He despises people who play speed chess in the park and calls them "street urchins."

I think I would have laughed in someone's face if they told me that Supernatural would have as many at least as many seasons as Buffy and Angel combined.

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I don't think trading civil liberties for security is inherently fascist and I think there is a large grey area because of the way people feel about these things. I'm reminded of how Cicero, a famous defender of the laws of the Roman Republic, said "the laws are silent amid the clash of weapons" while dealing with the…

Eastwood's politics have always seemed very rational to me. He dislikes categorizing himself or even admitting that he is political, but his views are pretty libertarian with support of civil liberties and moderate gun control, opposition to America policing the world, and conservative fiscal views. Honestly a…

I recently read an interview with Eastwood where he said Pauline Kael was "full of ****" and "writing to be controversial" when she started the fascist criticisms of Dirty Harry. He said the public realized the film was about a man fed up with bureaucratic crap better than the critics did and insists the film was not…

While I agree any attempt to make the squid on screen would have looked bad, Snyder's adaptation left a gaping plot hole that didn't exist in the Moore and Gibbons work.

The problem is that statistical analysis is subject to the same subjective problems and ad-hoc rationalizations that historical analysis is. There are still biased, greedy people interpreting the data in ways that benefit them, make their bosses happy, fit with their preconceived ideas of how the economy should work,…

That depends how much you like set/costume design and fight choreography. Nothing else in the show is worth your time. I admit that I watch it as a guilty pleasure because I love those two things and am also really happy that an Asian actor got the lead in an American cable show.

Is it over-inflated?

"Ad revenues and investment are dropping! Quick! Let's spend billions on programming because Netflix is doing it!"

I wish that were true, but the amateur reviewers of my back seat are saying it is "Soooo funny!", "Can you believe they burned Mary-Kate and Ashley like that? I love it sooo much!" and "You just have to watch it!"

Ray Winstone as King Saul? I really wish they got Ben Kingsley for Samuel and gave us a twisted Sexy Beast reunion.

Women between 18-29 have plenty of time on their hands to vote on things too. After the past couple weeks of uber driving college students, I'm surprised they haven't joined together and declared Fuller House the greatest TV show ever made yet.

Did anyone else notice that the Monarch not only killed a bunch of his rivals (doubt the man who kills henchmen by the dozen has any moral qualms about it), but also accidentally arched Venture by blowing up all the lab equipment and inventions that were just stolen? This Blue Morpho scheme probably just hit its peak…

I'm still angry that the box art for season 5 spoiled Fred's death for me. Who the **** made that decision?

*Crosses fingers that announcement is Them Crooked Vultures getting back together to write new material after Josh Homme's tour with Iggy Pop*

I'm just disappointed the producers didn't call it Olympus Has Fallen 2: London Bridges Falling Down.

Glad to see the article credit Cliff Burton so much, he deserves it. The man was one of the most talented bassists to ever attack 4 strings, the best songwriter in Metallica and you can hear the band quickly diminish in quality after his death. I really think the turn away from complex metal towards simple hard rock…

I was very engrossed (not only was I enjoying Martin's prose, but I was also comparing his take on dark fantasy to that of the Witcher series which I have been reading as quickly as they are being translated from Polish. Next novel in May!), away from a steady internet connection and I find it goes a lot faster if…