My wife is a county judge here in Illinois and her and many others in her field disagree with a lot of mandatory minimum sentences. They feel that each case should be judged on its merits and circumstances and that blanket sentences like that cause more injustice then they do good. It removes their ability tailor the…

The charges aren’t correct, the sentence is an absolute miscarriage of justice, and if the dude was white, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist in comparison.

Me, reading the headline: “Wow that’s fucking nuts, how could this sentencing possibly happen?”

The nearest runaway ramp would be miles before this back up in hte foothills. He was hitting the western side of greater Denver rush hour traffic. Its a parking lot there every day at that time other crash or not.

Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.

Did this guy fuck up and deserve to go to jail? Certainly.

Holy shit, child rapists, murderers and other far more horrible people get far less time than this.  Did this guy fuck up and deserve to go to jail?  Certainly.  Does he deserve 110 years, not even close.  Total failure of the system here so far.

Not to drag my own personal hangups but if big eyebrows on ladies are making a comeback I’m extremely down with that

I want Holland and Maguire to do the upside down kiss with each other! 

Alan Ruck is truly the disrespected eldest son.

Come on. We gotta shout out Alan Ruck. He is constantly benched on the show, and he plays that need for recognition so beautifully. It feels like we all undervalue his work on the show, and this episode gives him a great ending to his season arc.

Shiv wants her mommy so bad. That speech was painful. There was a wonderful parallel between Shiv’s toast and Roman coming to his father with love.

Nearly everything in the article comes from on-the-record quotes from named co-workers, or are direct quotes from Strong, himself. Also it’s hard to say the writer cherry-picked the worst ones, when there are clips of Strong interviews that are pretty much exactly the same as how he comes off, in the profile. That’s…

These folks take playing make-believe way, way to seriously. 

Sorkin’s opinions were definitely (at best) misrepresented. My impression on finishing the profile was that Sorkin sort of tolerated Strong, probably with a great deal of eye rolling, and that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

Yeah, there’s a very passive-aggressive kind of profile that’s become prevalent in recent years, where they assemble a bunch of quotes into an unflattering narrative and then play dumb.

In other words, he’s playing the part perfectly. He’s exactly the manipulative narcissist the books described.

In broad strokes, her actions in the show line up with the books, but there’s a lot of introspection, mental calculus, and context guiding her actions in the books that just isn’t overtly seen in the show.

Insider info from a friend that works at Netflix: they actually had renewed it for a second season, then had a change of heart and had to have what must’ve been an awkward conversation.

It’s just too bad that the AV Club was so focused on Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem’s faces for most of their coverage that they basically can’t write a review without referencing themselves and the pot they stirred.