I agree, Stan was the lead guy on the team so of course he gets the call. And made a point that it was a "team effort".

They may or may not have a "real CIA guy" involved, but they do love their ripped-from-history's-headlines stories. This, the umbrella injection, and I'm sure lots of stuff most people (including myself) wouldn't even know about, but provide a big bonus for those who do. As with the Russian dialogue mentioned directly…

I agree with @avclub-5d8773d363076bb7f4feaf912d970935:disqus re: The Wire. Both because it's long in the past, and because it just plain wrecks the curve.

I didn't recognize that. Perhaps they confused him with Peter the Great?

Re: "Their intelligence and prison system were monstrous…." This, in the "land of the free", with more people in jail than China, that totalitarian communist country with 1/5 of the world's population.

Re: "… they kept their citizens poor". Again, no Stalinist here, but credit where it's due. The Soviet Union went from a country that was poor and backwards *before* WWI and the Civil War practically destroyed Russian industrial capacity (and with it, the urban proletariat), to an industrial and military powerhouse,…

I think Gorbachev deserves all the credit for ending the Cold War, and (unintentionally) the USSR.

What's this thing about beginning and ending shows at 10 past the hour just to fuck with people?

I just took it as the normal thing of teenage kids being embarrassed by their parents: outdated fashion choices, hovering around them in public and especially around their friends, trying to talk to them about uncomfortable stuff, etc.

Anybody else get a symbolic vibe from the shot of the drops of blood on the sheet? Becoming a woman, and all?
ETA: Or was that just too obvious to mention?
ETA: and now I see that @RogueJedi86 already said it, below.

I admit to fast-forwarding through the Agron-Nasir sex scene - it's not my thing - but I'm glad it was there. Fair's fair.

For the most part I think humor about any particular group is best when it comes from members of that group. Because they're the ones who know what's really funny about themselves and their peers. The kind of stuff outsiders only get glimpses of and don't really understand.

"One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been."
Because white people showed such compassion in their overlordship over the Native Americans they displaced and massacred and the Africans they forcibly imported and enslaved.

As a goddamned Marxist - and there are so few of us I feel justified in taking this personally - I will just offer in my defense that I attempt to make my comments relevant to the article and/or the comments above mine, and to contribute something worthwhile to the discussion at hand, whether or not one agrees with my…

I was introduced to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1980-82 (jr & sr years in high school) in Santa Clara CA. (For those unfamiliar, RHPS became and remains a cult phenomenon because of the "audience participation".)  Every week was a bit different as people thought up new & creative things to interject. It was…

Re: the bad trip stories: A few friends were hanging at my place, one of whom never got high from smoking, and had just tried his first herbal cookie to see if that would work. It worked too well and he started getting really paranoid. I put on Pink Floyd's "Echoes" and we just sat there listening to it. It helped.

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus and @avclub-75e43c12ef9f1cfdaeae92ca6fa90640:disqus: Now that it's legal* in your state for recreational use (congratulations!), you should have an easier time finding certified organic cannabis.

I'm an anti-zionist Jew, so I get called "self-hating Jew" by zionists.

"..last time I checked, this is a comment section, where users can vent
their opinion. Thats what I did. You dont like it, tough titty."

"..last time I checked, this is a comment section, where users can vent
their opinion. Thats what I did. You dont like it, tough titty."