It's not quite the same as leaving your heart in San Francisco, but it could make for a decent ballad.

I hope Trump quits/is pushed sometime in September/October/November. I want to see South Park's take on it. Maybe they'll even get to use their missed opportunity 'I'm With Stupid' as the title.

I don't see why those would be a barrier to practice if not law (although even that could be changed). It just involves everyone acknowledging that the Confederacy was in the wrong, in the way that Berlin has acknowledged that the Nazis were in the wrong. Taking down the statues is a good start.

I'm not saying the Nazis and the Confederacy were basically the same, though I am drawing an equivalence based on both sides fighting for abhorrent ideologies and both sides losing their respective wars.

Right - and there should be a similar approach to the Confederacy. Because when people glorify the actions and ideals of the Confederacy, you get protests like the one in Charlottesville, and the attitudes and actions of those involved. They just want to preserve the legacy of the Confederacy - but it is a legacy that…

And you're still doing it. You're right about most of the details but you're using them to obscure the important point, the point that too many in America are ignoring - THE CONFEDERATES WERE FIGHTING FOR RACISM. This makes them BAD. Fuck whatever details you want to throw out about the Union being shitty too - they…

I don't fully agree that there's always another choice (I've fortunately never been in a situation where I've had to be tested in that way, so I shouldn't like to say how one can react in those circumstances), but I do agree that the people you cite are the ones worth remembering, worth celebrating. No matter how…

They try to but Voldemort has Snape kill Dumbledore which pushes back their schedule, at least until after they get the Death Star plans.

This is the kind of bullshit I'm talking about. Sorry to be blunt, I'm sure you mean well (and these aren't valueless points you raise), but you're doing exactly what I said, presenting an equivalence between the two sides, despite the fact that one was fighting for slavery and the other was fighting against it. There…

I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago for the first time. I was surprised - and encouraged - by how open and honest the city is about its past. So many museums and exhibitions about WWII (and the Cold War), acknowledging the atrocities committed over the last century by a large proportion of the city's leaders and…

Thank you! People act like this show doesn't have massive leaps of logic. It does, it just usually doesn't matter that much.

I'd grant you he was fun for the first season, but right from the start of season 2 he became pretty unbearable to me. Ross I liked for the first three/four seasons, until Schwimmer starts screaming for laughs. And I really don't get the Ted Mosby hate; I found the other characters on that show to be way more annoying…

Most of the developments I could get behind, if it hadn't been so rushed - but Ted going back to Robyn at the end really annoyed me, just because of the number of times he'd 'gotten over' her in the previous 7 series. After that much time spent going 'And now, finally, he's over her, even more so than last time' and…

Oof. Putting anyone above JD on that list is just too harsh.

By season six Ted was the only character on that show I still liked.

Both arguably for self-defence - here he was the provocateur. The Vindicator deaths were entirely… unvindicated.

Curiously, I've had a similar grievance with Doctor Who over the last few years, particularly in series 9. On two major instances (The Witch's Familiar and The Zygon Inversion) it was revealed that the Doctor had planned everything all along, which was meant to be an indicator of how clever he was but wound up…

That's basically the reason I didn't particularly enjoy Pickle Rick (at least not by typical Rick and Morty standards) - it was doubling down on a character I don't like.

My issue with Will and Grace was usually the audience - there was some genuinely clever writing in there, some good jokes and fun character moments, but they barely registered with the audience. Make a dick innuendo or refer to Karen's breasts, however, and they're cheering for minutes on end. Maybe that'll change in…

Bees. My God.