I can’t wait for this to be really engaging and interesting for two seasons and then immediately switch to being cruel and contemptful of the audience to make us feel bad for caring in the first place.  

Wrap your noggin around this: Sylvester Stallone is three years older (72!) in Creed II than Burgess Merideth was in the original Rocky (69).

If anyone is interested in some more info on the goof Van Dyke and the kinds of skills he’s bringing to the party:

I can’t believe this is something other than a joke, and then I remember the reality we inhabit.  

I know that the Gawker group of publications is committed to the narrative that Ansari must be grouped in with people like CK, but holy shit does that remain a reach.

Kathy Lee vs. Hoda.  

I think “Ted Cruz got gorilla-masked over the holidays by what appears to be a whispy-pubed teen” might be a more appropriate headline.

He’s saying that anything that does not rise to the level of the Holocaust is not worth complaining about. And, most importantly, he’s saying that the Holocaust was a one-off event, and none of the moral issues raised by it can or should be considered in any way to our current political reality.

It was just a few clerical mistakes, why doesn’t everyone relax? Just like if I made the mistake of giving a statement to police that said a criminal suspect was with me at the time of a murder and it was later proven to be false, they’d chalk it up to no harm no foul.  

A significant majority of criminal judges in Cook County (and I suspect in most counties) are former state’s attorneys. That means their career was built on working hand in glove with police officers, papering over their misdeed and mistakes and never ever embarrassing or significantly crossing them without risking…

I think we can all agree about what voice she should use.  

All of this indicates that Mueller is getting close

This is probably less about ratings than the fact that the original hosts all have college-age kids now and they just want to keep an eye on them.  

You left off The Dictator from his resume.  He’s still in that.  

Yes, I’m sure that’s it.  The problem couldn’t be the harrumphing scold on the internet being a doofus.  

After you’ve spent that much on the bourbon, RC is all you can afford as a mixer.  

Exactly,  & that’s why “Midwest” is not helpful.  Michigan and Nebraska shouldn’t be lumped in together.  

I think part of the problem is the fast & loose use of “midwest.”  If Ohio and Indiana are midwest, then Minnesota and the Dakotas definitely aren’t, and vice versa.  

That’s a really good point. What’s the point in enjoying something special-- we should all just shoot for the lowest common denominator and accept that anything else is pointless. See you at McDonald’s!

Jeff Sessions is available, I hear.