pretty much everyone seems fine with this total stranger they found on an enemy vessel — who, best case scenario, has crippling PTSD — being put in charge of ship’s security overnight.

Except for the aforementioned Monster Mash.

You ask an excellent question! I’ll try to answer as succinctly as I can. The key to understanding Ruby’s actions, as with Oswald, is to understand his character. Gerald Posner does this far better than I can in his book “Case Closed,” but suffice to say there are numerous accounts that attest to Ruby’s mental…

I think Dan was right. The sentence immediately following the one about cheating is “In all other aspects, our relationship is the greatest one I’ve ever had.” Unless the letter was heavily edited, that sentence organization makes more sense as a suggestion that the letter writer didn’t appreciate being cheated on…

Why is everyone roasting the AV Club for this? It is the right thing to do and even if they are not the Times or The Post, it still matters.

I personally it might have been really interesting if American Sniper had actually incorporated Chris Kyle’s seemingly pathological need to lie into the movie itself. Was he always such a fabulist, or did war make him that way? And if it’s the latter, how did that happen? Maybe his experiences affected him in a way…

Great recommendations with a couple of caveats. Eyes of My Mother is one of the slowest, most languid, pulse-free things I have ever put in front of my eyeballs. If you want chilly black-and-white arthouse horror, stick with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

My feelings are that if you are getting off or getting someone else off through direct contact with another person (whether that be physical touching, phone sex, stripping, trading naked pictures, or whatever else), you’re cheating to some degree if your relationship is monogamous and your partner hasn’t given you…

That book was (hopefully) the last gasp of this dragged out notion that JFK, despite everything that he actually said and did, was actually secretly the last great liberal scion who was secretly going to completely withdraw from Vietnam, dismantle the CIA and somehow end the Cold War itself with the Soviet Union. And…

Yeah, I feel like... the very first MCU film was explicitly about a guy learning how being Northrop Grumman is bad.

Why would he ever stop playing the victim? Playing the victim has been great for the conservative movement. They whine that liberals are biased, or unfair, or snobs eating caviar and looking down on the simple working folk, like the millionaire entertainer who liberal Hollywood keeps putting in everything, and who…

TOS’s tech looked the way it did because the technology was sufficiently advanced that they could make it look the way they wanted based purely on aesthetic whims, and that set of looks just happened to become super-trendy around then.

Okay, let’s do this because you don’t seem to understand the difference.

Obviously, ACA has problems, but—the main issue the guy talks about in the thread seems to boil down to “Texas didn’t vote for Medicaid expansion.” And the reason they didn’t vote for Medicaid expansion? Because most of the people in the state voted for Republican politicians who declined to expand it (and were likely…

Anyone who thinks It’s Always Sunny is worth emulating in real life knows nothing about the characters “THAT ARE SHOWN” in the show.

But that’s the thing, it’s not the same as a transgender person choosing to have confirmation surgery. The episode presents the society doing this as a bad thing- it’s a bummer when the verdict happens. It’s very clear on saying that you shouldn’t do this.

It’s a very Trek-like sci-fi show, it’s not like political commentary is at all out of place- particularly in this sort of broad “let people be different” stance.

Really love how clicking on ‘tv reviews’ doesn’t put the latest reviews at the top anymore. How fucking intuitive!

In response to your examples of drug prices. The astronomical prices for drugs is a result of our current for-profit healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They are not some “universal price” that is unchangeable. Those prices are a result of specific policy decisions. Those prices reflect the high administrative…

You wrote “rationally” when you actually meant “like a sociopath.”