As long as people buy your shit, you can live anywhere. Eminem lives in Detroit, Chance lives in Chicago, etc.

Reminds me of a recent New York Mag piece about the era of the “hipster sitcom” ending. Seems to really be the case.

I mean, we live in a country where people who aren’t highly engaged politically have admitted to basing their votes in things like state and local races on perceptions of the president. Political parties in 2018 America are just extensions of particular presidents.

Ryan’s district voted for Obama in 2008. Democrats have already flipped similar-but-redder constituencies like the recent one in PA without running against literal Nazis. Alabama and, less spectacularly, the Louisiana gubernatorial election in 2015 show that even deep red states can flip if the Republican is…

Yeah, people are mistaken to think he will suffer for the tax cuts. Trump will own that.

Yeah, this seems obvious to me. While his reelection is sure to be tight, he will still likely be able to win on name recognition. He almost certainly isn’t ACTUALLY caught up in the Mueller probe and there is nothing out there to indicate that a Republican like Mueller wants to bring down the entire party instead of…

By this logic, The Simpsons could have a new character called Shylock Goldstein who owns all the land in Springfield and eats a Palestinian baby every episode and it wouldn’t be offensive because Jews are better off economically than most Americans.

Wrong frontpage article?

The death of the water cooler for everything except GOT, which seems resistant to it, is kind of sad for me. As you say, you’re left with sports and the weather as the only areas for small talk these days.

I think that essay is good but I wish he’d have included a corollary that you should keep whichever shows you want to keep. I’ve become unsentimental... I will never go back to Doctor Who, most likely, for example. But I will watch Game of Thrones and I will watch Atlanta, etc.  

I don’t mind binge watching, but do wish I could return to scheduled watching. My TV time would be much better spent if I could ONLY binge watch, like, Insecure on Thursdays. You could watch 5-7 shows a week this way and replace things that are out of season if they are currently airing.

I don’t think that is really what he is saying, though. It’s more like this:

You can stream FX’s shows for an hour per day on their website for free.

Catching up, I actually wondered if Clarke County was meant to be a sendup of Childish Gambino himself as Glover retires that particular persona.

Yeah, but who cares if they did? That is what computers look like, they have names on them.

It it bothers me too but I don’t like to bring it up because I sound like a hipster if I say that I was into the Thick of It years before Veep even came out I sound like a bit of an asshole. It’s also, frustratingly, not the kind of thing you can really recommend generally since it requires at least a base level…

I have never understood people complaining about this. Like, if the character has a computer with a Dell logo on it, do you really think Dell paid for that? That is what computers look like, shut the fuck up.

That reporter was also Dinesh D’Souza.

I just don’t like cheese, man.

Margaret lived harder, though.