Seth MacFarlane is super-talented; and his work is consistently brilliant.

His trenchant cultural criticism attacks not only things that are easy and fun to skewer, such as awful television shows and bad actors, but also society’s sacred cows, such as marriage and parenthood.

It is also a normal sartorial choice for millions of people.

Promotion/relegation Is an absolutely terrible way to determine which cities will have temas in the top league. On this we probably agree.

That archaic convention is best left in the dustbin of history. Wearing a hat indoors has been perfectly acceptable for quite a long time.

Any flavour of ice cream + Cocoa Krispies.

Asking people to remove their hats in order to get into a fast-food place is unreasonable.

That Conchords song was great. But it would have been even better with Todd on the bongos.

There is nothing wrong with the rule.

If a defensive player cannot make a legal tackle on the quarterback, he should not try to make the tackle in the first place.

Anyone who snarks on this needs to get lost. The impression is a great work of art.

They need to find a way to prohibit intentional fouling as a means of stopping the clock. The final two minutes of the game should not take a half an hour.

The article rests on the assumption that starring in a prime-time sitcom is a higher acheivement than being the best-known cast member on Saturday Night Live. This is a faulty assumption.

Most sitcoms run for a season and are cancelled. (This goes even for sitcoms with famous stars.) What’s more, even for sitcoms that…

Precisely. Conan scores every night.

He is the true successor to Letterman in terms of his love of silliness. And he shares an important trait with Carson: he dies funny. Even when a joke doesn’t land, that itself is a funny moment.

I am looking forward to the new format, when he focusses even more on comedy and…

This is the correct take.

McEnroe’s disqualification during the 1990 Australian Open, which so many have gleefully pointed out, is very interesting. I will admit that I didn’t remember that. I was thinking more of his constant berating of umpires during U.S. Open matches in the 1980s. He would call them “incompetent” and other choice words;…

This is taking the whole Oscar Madison / ulcer thing way too far. 

Of course not.

The point is that those players, who frequently misbehaved in a most demonstrative fashion, and who regularly hurled invective at umpires, were rarely penalised. (But you knew that.)

Evidently you also missed the entire careers of John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, and Ilie Nastase.

The only important point is that a male player who behaved as Williams did would almost certainly not have been subjected to the same penalty.

Therefore, this is 100% a matter of gender equality.

The real Steve Smith.

I used to watch it with the sound off, because Delta Burke was so shapely, and because I just couldn’t deal with those accents.