I'd be interested in the evidence that you feel supports that position since to me some system of action that allows for the consideration of other individual's wants and needs seems essential to any functioning society and that's basically all a moral code is (to be honest, without meaning to offend anyone, what…

Yeah, i've bought a few books twice. The wake-up for me was moving a few months back and shifting the same boxes of books I hadn't read that i'd shifted 5 years earlier when i'd moved in, them having sat totally undisturbed the whole time (as well as 30 or 40 all new boxes of books I haven't read that i'd accumulated…

Hmm, i'd add "Justified" and "Person of Interest" from recent years. Buffy and Angel both ended pretty well and back in the day, MASH and Cheers.

I'm the same. John Wayne I can mostly take or leave ("The Searchers" is still one of the best westerns ever made though) but i'll give anything Jimmy Stewart's in at least a chance.

That's a really good point. With non-fiction, different books at the same time can spark off each other and inspire all sorts of other ideas and avenues of interest (which usually leads to buying more books ad infinitum but that's a different story).

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Agreed with the proviso that I really think the thread of the final couple of seasons was always there, right from the very beginning. It always asked some pretty interesting means/ends questions about what the team were doing (literally from the pilot), the way it was going to play out just depended on how the show…

TMWS Liberty Valance is a really interesting film, a self-aware, revisionist western from 1962, barely out of the end of the genre's arguable heyday and still very much within its mainstream popularity window. Well worth a watch.

Trying to read and not liking is fine though, that just means you either don't like the book or it's still in your future.

Too long ?

I used to always have 4 or 5 books on the go but now I don't like reading more than one fiction book at a time (with non-fiction it's fine). Something about juggling multiple fictional universes feels like crossing the streams.

Also, the show pretty much sticks the landing, which doesn't always happen (I binged the whole thing in about 3 weeks a few years back and loved it).

My impression is that the accent we non-Bostonians identify as "a Boston accent" is more from a particular part of the city (and probably more working class) ? So she might have struggled in the same way you can be a born and bred Londoner but do a bad Cockney accent.

It's never Lupus !

She does sound very covetable !

Not true apparently but an amusing bit.

For me most of us are actually comparing to some idea we have in our head of "a good person" (built from everything that's ever influenced us) rather than directly against each other but sure, judgement is a part of most human interactions.

Yeah, very true, absolute arbiters have their own set of issues. Aside from, as you point out, the practical consideration of interpretation there's the more philosophical issue of whether the arbiter is good because they do good things i.e. goodness exists apart from the arbiter, in which case the arbiter is…

Part of the point is, until we see which way history goes we don't know whether there'll be anyone around to call those things you mention wrong (to them they may not be).

In fairness, people "mark" Jim Morrison's grave in all sorts of unsavoury ways (sure, it's maybe what he would've wanted but…).