Thank you. It's like advancing past food tasting good. It makes no sense. Does anyone have a problem with food tasting good, so much so that we need to start eating dog shit just to experience something new? It's nonsensical. Critics and hipsters will fawn over it because they love something only they like. …

I get a real emperor's new clothes vibe from this review, specifically "musical pieces that are more like interconnected soundscapes than songs". This is no progress, it's regression. It's like calling a chef a genius for randomly throwing ingredients on a plate and saying he's brave and a genius for "moving beyond…

IMHO the commercial stuff was all about inserting reminders that Jimmy is working hard to build his practice. It's sort of a way to say: look, without the downfall that's ultimately going to result from Chuck's taping him, Jimmy would have been a colorful but hard-working lawyer with his own practice that, while…

Honestly, I think it's a byproduct of pro-business pushback in other areas along with the nature of bureaucracy. Pro-business folks get riled up over things like a $15 minimum wage, tax rates, onerous paperwork, archaic bureaucratic processes, and so on, and the knee-jerk reaction against that attaches to government…

What is it to you? You're the old man on the front porch shaking his fist at those damn kids because he doesn't like their newfangled ways. If you can't see it, and if it doesn't disturb your experience in any way, you should not care. If you do, you have a problem. And by the way, start getting used to everyone…

All you have to do is put a panel just above hand level so the person sitting in the back row can see their phone but no light escapes to disturb anyone in front of that seat. This isn't rocket science. Cell phones aren't massive spotlights that cannot be contained. They put out a relatively low amount of light…

The author's missing an obvious solution. Theaters don't have to choose between allowing people to text and forcing everyone else to see them doing it. They could, for example, create a texting section and put a relatively low partition between that section and everyone else. Put it in the back center of the…

Exactly how I feel. It's just a way for liberals and progressives to feel good about themselves. I like John Oliver, but what he's doing is in no way daring. He's just giving people what they want to hear, which is fine, but it's basically comedic pandering. I'd respect him a lot more if he had a few positions…

What else is a business supposed to do when it lends money? Just go on blind faith? If you're the one handing over a big sum of money, surely you'd like to know the likelihood the person will repay it, right? That's the credit score in a nutshell. It's not perfect, but what's the alternative? They're never going…

One thing that's bugging me about this debate: doesn't "moving past body shaming" inherently endorse the notion that female value is solely in appearance? By that I mean: women like Melissa McCarthy, Adele, Amy Schumer, and Mindy Kaling (all different body types but none the "perfect" traditional beauty) are very…

You're kinda proving an obvious corollary of the article, which is that men don't get judged on appearance. I know I'm risking being called sexist, but straight women generally aren't that superficial. They care more about a guy being smart and capable and successful than they do physical appearance. The male…

Well that's clearly not true. If you're touching kids, society should absolutely shame you.

It's not physical appearance for dudes. It's about status and capability. I'm speaking broadly, obviously, but men usually get judged on things like their career, their wealth, their status, etc. Not that being physically attractive isn't a nice cherry on top, but it's really not a make or break type of thing. …

She's hilarious and successful, but Mindy Kaling is not gorgeous. Try telling an attractive woman of the same ethnic heritage that she looks like Mindy Kaling. It will be construed as an insult. And I'm not talking about an insult because it's insulting that of course she's the only woman of her ethnicity you know…

Do whatever you want. It just seems to me it's part of a harmful trend in society that wants to make everyone feel good instead of what is. If you follow that logic, let's stop having grades because it makes some people feel bad. Let's stop having games with winners and losers because it makes some people feel bad.…

What's irresponsible? The term plus-sized? It doesn't matter what you call it or that you call it nothing at all. If we eliminate the term plus-sized altogether, what have we achieved? Fashion magazines are still going to have women that look a certain way on the cover. Women are still going to see that and say…

Comedians in general aren't the most attractive of people. Which is logical. People who are beautiful early on in life never need to develop a sense of humor. They're basically granted the keys to the kingdom simply by virtue of their looks. Humor develops in the rest of us. We need to be funny to get dates. We…

It's a pointless fight against human nature. These notions of beauty aren't plucked out of thin air and made up out of whole cloth. There's not some sort of brainwashing going on. They come from us, not the magazines. Look at anything in the world. Do you see a Ford Fiesta on the cover of a car magazine? No. No…

It's always going to matter. Society's definition of beautiful basically comes down to what's rare and hard to achieve. Thin is in because most of us are too lazy and undisciplined to achieve it. We're a nation of fatasses that eat terribly and don't exercise. This extends to basically everything in life. Look at…

True story: Michael Cudlitz is the guy on coke reading the shitty poem in Grosse Point Blank.