fuck you, batman!

Ok! What would the fantasy role-playing games equivalent of ESPN be? How many local radio stations have entire shows devoted to analyzing those games? How many role playing games fantasy football games are you in? People who play those games can be just as obsessive, but the culture at large doesn't seem to want…

"obsession with this dumb game don't start and end on super bowl game day"

Ha! Good point! Maybe skip the bar in favor of the park on that day. :)

I disagree. I think people can focus on multiple things. What strikes me about sports, however, is the great depth and detail with which people focus on it. If you listen to sports radio shows, random callers will call in and they have such incredible, high level information and theories about such complex and…

did you not notice my sarcastic tone?

thank you, I hope not. We get nowhere just preaching to the same choir over and over again. It's an interesting idea, though, the idea of whether pop culture and politics are mutually exclusive.

as long as you're at home. You see the price of super bowl tickets?

obsession with this dumb game don't start and end on super bowl game day. It's an entire season of wasted obsession with players and coaches and earlier games and betting and following and getting angry at different things that happen, all the energy and focus that would be devastating to power if focused on them.

Amazing. Somehow what I said is both too obvious to mention as well as too obscure to arrive out without an advanced degree. It's almost as if the structure of your argument is "shut up, we like it, so shut up."

Well then, I'll have to step up my game. Having never commented here before, I am completely falling down on the "continually needling" front. If you run those brain cells together a little faster, though, you'll realize that "plebs" is used sarcastically in reference to the way the elite think of the kind of people…

football fanatics are worse than religious fundamentalists.

I don't get this criticism. Are you saying I'm more educated than you? What I said was obvious. It takes no higher education, Just a few brain cells to rub together.

I'm not fun at a super bowl party, that's true. It's just too boring. I have my moments, though, usually when drunk.

Adbusters? that's your go to "crazy out there" magazine reference? Not Mother Jones or the Socialist Worker?

no, I think I'll just go ahead and not shut up. The Super Bowl is a ridiculous orgy of violence and consumerism, designed specifically to distract the plebs from the political system they're supposed to be following and participating in with at least as much energy and obsession.

Here's to Kilborn's departure from this Earth as well. it can only improve it.

Anything that loses Katherine Heigl is both a boon for the show and a great gift to humanity.

you don't need scientific realism, but you do need to stay consistent with the rules established in the world. That's like a law of writing or something.

This show isn't the same plot or rhythm as Breaking Bad, nor should it be. It takes place in a defeating post-apocalyptic world, where rays of hope are squeezed out and then crushed. Go watch Breaking Bad if you want Breaking Bad.