That's exactly right. What they've succeeded in doing is prove that at best, theirs is a city/country where minor things are handled with drawn pistols and demands for money and where if you commit even a minor infraction that "offends the character of the nation" even though it's 99% true, your passport will be…

I fucking hate the AV Club and the author of this article. Admit that you love to hate him because he's a fantastically successful athlete who's achieved a hundred times more with his life than any single person on your staff and you were all stuffed into lockers in high school. That you would even come close to…

Some might say the terrible writing staff already ruined the viewing experience.

The thing about feminists is that they're generally like vegans: you know it within five minutes of meeting them. Which is fine, I suppose, but I believe it's a big part of why there are reactions like this. Are there cavemen and morons? Sure. There are also lots of folks who are just tired of the feminist prism…

Phelps had some serious addiction problems. It's actually a compelling story. He got a second DWI, his personal life was in shambles, he was completely detached and distant from everyone, and he basically felt like "what's the point". And he managed to re-focus himself, find personal happiness, and also keep…

Why would you post this? If your post starts with "I haven't seen this but…", feel free to delete it.

It irks me to no end that the two most common sorts are golds and total medals. It seems obvious to me the #1 sort should be a weighted medal count based on counting golds as 3 points, silvers as 2 points, and bronzes as 1 point.

It's OK to be proud of your nation's competitors for winning. If it was truly only about sportsmanship, they wouldn't hand out medals at all. Yes, it's about sportsmanship, but it's also about the drive to be the best in the world, and the medal count is a core metric to that end.

I think it was the Barcelona Olympics where for the first time they had an unprecedented 3 (!) channels of coverage on pay per view (they called it the Olympics Triplecast). People just don't appreciate how far the coverage has come.

I hate time-delaying, but I understand why they're doing it for gymnastics. Gymnastics would be a disaster in primetime because you'd have to watch EVERY competitor go through their routine. Swimming works perfectly in primetime because everyone's swimming at once. If you had to watch the guy from Greece swim, then…

Hey, we're kicking the world's ass in medals. Heavy lies the head that wears the crown. I'd rather be leading the medal count than jeering the winner.

Why? Seriously, why? You have basically the greatest Olympian ever in Michael Phelps. You have emerging stars like Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky. The US is winning tons of medals. There's gorgeous beachfront scenery. Tons of the events are live. It's not the Olympics that are meh, it's you.

I think "no case is a slam dunk" means that you always have to keep finding more information to prove your case, not "you should constantly question whether you have the right person". That's why Box is doing all of the research. Even though they have a guy at the scene with a knife that has the victim's blood on…

I don't have any trouble believing "the system" would look the other way, especially the folks who run the jail. To them, the guy's a murderer. They're not going to care if he's getting attacked. Sure, the prosecution might not like it, but they don't run the jail. Moreover, is it really a bad thing in terms of PR…

Yes, it was a SCOTUS case. The upshot is basically that a previous decision said that even if police did something illegal and the end result was uncovering evidence, under certain circumstances the evidence need not be suppressed (which is usually what happens when evidence is obtained illegally). One of them is…

I think the end game is that Naz ends up getting convicted because the evidence against him is fairly overwhelming and the show never tells us whether or not he did it. I think the point the show is trying to make is that whether or not he really did it is immaterial. We rarely have a 100% ironclad guarantee people…

Might he have cleaned himself up before he fell asleep on the table? I sort of figured they had sex and then she just kinda passed out and he said WTF, I'm covered with all kinds of fluids, I gotta get cleaned up, and once he was clean he didn't want to lie down with her in her mess, but he didn't feel OK to leave,…

I took the genital shots to be the show's way of showing just how far "gone" people in the criminal justice system are. To us, it's shocking. To the people in the scene, it's something they see a million times a day. That basically goes along with what I consider to be the entire central thread of the show - how…

Agreed, although for slightly different reasons. Being "hard" in prison is completely logical and in one's own self-interest. Naz isn't doing it out of anger or hatred. He's doing it because he's increasingly seeing how things work in jail and making the rational decision to act in a way that will keep him safe. …

The police part is completely believable. It's 100% typical for the police to zero in on a suspect and begin to ignore evidence that tends to point to someone else. They call it "tunnel vision". The police aren't going to look for anything that would work against convicting Naz. They're going to focus on finding…