Yeah, fair enough. Wikipedia says the change from 90 to 60 was in 1980 so in my defense I was just a gleam in my pappy’s eye.

You are correct. Carson went to 60 minutes in 1980, according to Wikipedia. I think Letterman was always 60 though.

I think the best criticism was the one quoted in the article from Variety:

I’m pretty sure Carson and Letterman were 60 minute shows, which, efffectively really made them 45 minute shows. And I’m not entirely sure to what extent Letterman throwing watermelons off the roof of his building was cohesive with interviewing guests in a way that Fallon’s comedy bits aren’t.

It’s not a particularly good summation. I like the Guardian fine and everything but they say so themselves “Here are the 10 most revelatory” points.

Yeah, that’s more or less where I am. I get that the general perception of Wikileaks was different then than it is now but that’s sort of why you shouldn’t, you know, release classified documents like that.

I’m guessing not too many of the dopes who paid for this festival are going to really have problems with the rent next month. Mom’s check will clear just fine.

No. They were actually going to a festival that promised some very big current acts. Ja Rule was just one of the organizers it seems.

The only way you could think that sentence applies to Trump is if you think Trump will be a good president, which is the first half of that sentence. Personally, I don’t think Trump will be a good president and so I don’t think he was a terrific candidate.

Exactly. When Tom Petty sued Sam Smith it wasn’t because people were getting “Won’t Back Down” and “Stay With Me” confused, it was because if you looked at the sheet music, they’d look nearly identical.

No thank you. I was raised to believe that Groove is in the Heart.

Hillary losing twice in her bid for the presidency is not an opinion. It’s just fact. I don’t think Trump was a terrific candidate, he just got tremendously lucky that the Democrats ran a lousy candidate as well.

No, they’re arguing that for one song to infringe on another it actually has to copy a sequence of notes or melody. It can’t just be “Hey, this Oasis song reminds me a little bit of a Beatles song”.

That’s not a fact, that’s an opinion. Even if you want to make the case that Hillary Clinton, out of all of the candidates, would have been the best President that’s not what makes for a terrific candidate. What makes for a terrific candidate is someone who will be a good President and can actually win the Presidency.

I keep hanging my hat on the fact that the person you think was a terrific candidate lost a Presidential Election to Donald Trump.

Nate Silver is pretty reassuring on this one. It’s not very comparable to Trump.

Second worst results among Presidential candidates in favorable/unfavorable polling in history: Fact

Yup. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she also had the worst favorable-unfavorable numbers of any Democratic nominee ever. Lots of people voted for her because they saw her as a better option, not because they were particularly excited about her or had the enthusiasm they had for other candidates.…

And your position would make sense if we were currently enjoying the mediocre blandness of a Hillary Clinton presidency. But instead she lost states that no Democrat, no matter how unimpressive, lost in 30 years. She got the smallest % of votes cast by a Democrat since ‘92.

I don’t know. I voted for Clinton in both the primary and the general so I don’t think I qualify as a Bernie Bro. I can tell you, though, that neither of my votes were based on the fact that I “liked” her more.