Beats a hooker with a heart of gold, @ianreed:disqus ….

Like 3D printers now, @jerodast:disqus ? You can print just about any component you want, but certain components are registered and blocked from normal printers, like gun parts, so people can't just print an untraceable gun and use it in a crime.

Sure, @Walter_the_farting_dog:disqus - it's in the Constitution! Somewhere….

@Great_Random:disqus - Orwell wrote most of those in the Twenties and Thirties, back when violent revolution actually seemed to be the only way to move the ossified old aristocratic system off of everything. I think that, by the time he wrote 1984 and Animal Farm, he'd realized that just replaced one set of greedheads…

If Kitchen Confidential the sitcom had been anything like the book, @danelaborn:disqus ? It would have been great.

Probably, @weirdmagneticray:disqus - Bourdain kind of went to town on Emeril. I have to admit, I found his takedowns funny because they kind of perfectly fit Legasse's on-camera persona - which I have to admit in retrospect was far from the entire person.

Actually, @GuybrushThreepwoodMightyPirate:disqus - that's exactly the point. Seinfeld gives people a reason to watch it, because it's a comedy about horrible self-absorbed people who can't see just how horrible and self-absorbed they are, though the show is well-aware of it and mocks them for it.

Or Jerry, for that matter, @krampus9000:disqus . He's the star of the show, and he's as spoiled and self-centered as you can get.

@GuybrushThreepwoodMightyPirate:disqus :

My Mom used to loan me her Harold Robbins novels, @avclub-ba473068f1b856dfdb8de8dd3610c09b:disqus .

No, that's true, @chrishoffpauir:disqus - in fact, I think many people were more than a little put out at Lincoln having a "Praetorian Guard" under any circumstances.

OTOH, @avclub-7445cdf838e562501729c6e31b06aa7b:disqus - 100% less rape than The Fountainhead!

No, Atlas Shrugged at least has lots of sex scenes.

What I do want to see is Flash and Supergirl go into Alternate Earths based on the writers' favorite television shows.

Sounds like me trying to explain to my wife over the phone how to copy Photos out of Pictures and onto someplace in her hard drive where she can actually look at thumbnails without opening a bloated Mac app.

Winn/Cisco: "I have it! A Trans-Dimensional Portal Generator! I call it… ::takes breath:: SWEEPS!"

Uh, did I miss a nuance at the end of this episode - or are they actually implying that Amanda Waller in this universe is White…?

No, by now he's mostly made peace with those Food Network "celebrity chefs" he used to snark about, @avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus . He'd said in Medium Raw (I think) that many of his chef friends, like Mario Batali and Eric Ripert, told him he was way off base with his comments about Emeril Legasse…

Sure, @TS Idiot:disqus - because that's…edgy! You know, like James Spader having hatesex with Parker Posey and breaking his desk, or some middle-aged guy with Mommy Issues beating an obvious Nancy Grace clone to death with a shovel, or Spader's and William Shatner's Ambiguously Gay Duo act is edgy…back in the 1980s.

I actually like how he's balancing the food and travel show aspects with a bit broader look at the world, @Guy Incognito II:disqus - and honestly, he was doing it during No Reservations as well.