"At the time, she was notoriously known as Hanoi Jane, because she had posed for pictures in North Vietnam.."

You know what I've wondered about the first one? The Bishop they give Marv the chair for torturing to death is presented, even before he takes up eating women, as a power hungry sociopath. Who at some point in his life was plotting ways to achieve lots of worldly power to be evil with, and thought, "I know! I'll…

I don't think he's actually a serial killer. Mostly because I think it's funnier if he has every single psychological/behavioral trait of one, except that he just doesn't happen to actually kill people.

By pillboxes I assume you mean the altoids tin kind, rather than the fortified concrete machine-gun emplacement that inspired Jackie-O's preferred hat shape. Although a gun disguised a pillbox hat would be pretty neat. Kinda tough to keep the recoil from messing up the stylish angle…
But that could lead to some…

I hesitate to mention this, but shouldn't you wait until Trump's committed an impeachable offense to begin a movement demanding his impeachment? With Bush the argument was that he had knowingly misrepresented intelligence data to members of congress in order to get them to vote to authorize the use of military force…

An excellent point. Never go up against a Heraldic bear with access to a nuclear triad, I think is the lesson here. Surely, we can all agree on that. It's right up there with land wars in Asia and Sicilians.. all being murderers? Is that really what the Princess-Bride guy meant?

Ah, but that wasn't the thing at issue. That was whether the California tech-dweeb bear could beat the Soviet Russian bear…in some sense or other. Nevertheless, a fair point.

Hm, I think it would take exactly three shots from one cold-war era Russian nuclear missile sub to annihilate California's entire tech industry. If they timed it right, they could catch a good chunk of the executives at work. Oh, to see Goodle campus disappear in a ball of nuclear fire! I can think of nothing in this…

"By 'destroying' and 'being merciless' is to call out wrongness whenever you see it, don't give wrongness a chance to become established."

You know, it's actually a bad idea to use counter-citation in these scenarios. To an observer with no knowledge of either sources' relative legitimacy, the APA-format citation of a pseudoscientific hoax looks a lot like one for an article in a scholarly journal. Since basically no one following your spat is going to…

"People who look to It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia to reinforce their point of view on social issues are doing it wrong. "

"…and even in "At the Mountains of Madness" where the protagonists sympathize with the alien horrors from beyond as "men," they are sympathizing with slave-owners."

I'm glad you're back. I can't quite call myself a fan, since I've never actually seen your standup, but I've missed your article. Somewhat to my surprise, actually, since I often found myself irritated at its…tone? Or something. (I'm not sure, rereading didn't elicit it.) Then when it was gone I realized it was my…

"But at the same time, the whole idea that Doss needs redemption is challenging. His only sin is the capacity for sin that he shares with everyone else."

Ah bullshit. The Dwarves sound like Scots because everybody else in Britain stopped wearing beards. That and they're famously stubborn. (Which is not stereotyping, it's an actual cultural virtue Scots have long been proud of and sought to cultivate.) Elves don't have upper-class accents because they're ethereal, it's…

I actually watched this show, finding it mildly amusing. If I were to give an AV-Club grade i'd give it like a C/C-. But I think you seem to have missed, like, every single thing that was actually funny because of, yes, the Australian accents. I watch a weirdly large amount of Australian TV for an American with…

Also from Lewis' Herodotusian satire:

Probably not, the british aren't big screamers. But they did write pretty great, biting satire about the ridiculous misery of the new traditions and their total irrelevance to the Christian holiday. From CS Lewis' "Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter of Herodotus":

"Also, it would be nice if someone could review South Park without making half the article about their personal political worldview."

I don't think you can describe Cartman's feelings toward women as "misogyny". I don't think he actually hates women. He just brings to them the same absurd degree of batshit prejudice that characterizes his understanding of any group of humans he doesn't belong to. He certainly seems to feel genuine affection for…