Good point. My view of Jay is colored by my love for Mari, Michaela, and Zack, but if I step back and try to look at it more objectively, it isn't a blatant hardcore sort of villain edit the way we used to get with over-the-top cackling reality TV weasels like Colton or Naonka, or brain-damaged freaks like Brandon…

I suspect we can look forward to seeing Jay get his comeuppance. He's pretty openly being edited as a villain. (But unlike some villains, he also seems to be pretty good at this game, so this should be an interesting challenge for the opposing alliance. Go freaks and geeks!)

A lot of people seem to think this was a good move, but I say it's too early. Michaela was very unlikely to win every single post-merge challenge and could've been his meat shield. Now Hannah is (supposedly) mad (…maybe), and Bret and Sunday may or may not stick with him. (I'm betting not, but who knows?) Now instead…

Wait, is this true?!? I just speculated about this randomly (total spec with nothing to back it up) over at PRP's boards. Hope it's true, but watch out, people are gonna flip out at you for the casting spoiler. Might wanna spoiler-tag that (if this board supports that).

Kaine may be helping lock up VA for HRC — although polls suggest there was never any doubt there anyway. NJ, not an issue.

Fully agreed. I have no idea why so many people want to give this idiotic trash a pass. Code is not that exciting or fun or anything. I mean, not enough to make up for the fact that a brain-damaged homeless six-year-old could probably scrawl something more compelling and less cliched in broken crayons on the back of…

Agreed, I was sure it was Hanks in the thumbnail, but also switched sides to Murray in the full.

Agreed. I figured we were about due for a dud as well. It all comes down to the cast, and there are some really interesting characters this season. There are comparatively uninteresting people too, but that always happens.

This is why I wish they'd include more non-physical elements in the challenges, and even some totally non-physical challenges (more memory stuff, trivia, Survivor history quizzes, etc.). They think the physical challenges are interesting, but NOPE. Often they're the worst part of any ep. NERDS & WEIRDOS FTW!!!

I'm glad this shuffle has left all the nerds, freaks, and weirdos in relatively good positions. I'm a little worried for Zeke and David, and disturbed that they aren't shown bonding, because I would have thought they'd have something in common and I'd like to see David eventually join forces with the millenial…

I'm 100% with Rabin on this one. Da Vinci Code was one of the most overrated books of all time and written more simplistically than a lot of kids' lit. Its thrills aren't thrilling and it's filled with dumb cliches like an eeeeeeevil masochist albino, which is like some shit right out of a bad James Bond knockoff in…

I feel like there must have been a lot of bonding between Jessica and David that ended up on the cutting room floor because there wasn't enough time to show it…? I guess?

All of Lucy's confessionals in this episode made it way too obvious that she was going home. The editors really flubbed that one.

Sadly, our chances of retaking the House ANYTIME BEFORE 2030 (!) are extremely low due to the Redmap catastrophe in 2010. Democrats weren't paying enough attention to crucial state legislatures and a Republican strategist came up with a perfectly legal but incredibly evil data/algorithm-based scheme for long-term…

Wait, what? Really? I can't find anything about this online. Are you talking about his proposal for a dipshitty-sounding state-run news service that he dropped after it caused an uproar? It sounds like it would have just distributed bullshit propaganda to newspapers, but not filtered or restricted anything as far as I…

That's an excellent video! But they missed a few of the choicest bits from Scottish Twitter, like "knuckle-brained fart lozenge", "uncooked pastry", and "rug-wearing thunder nugget":
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hi…

Ugh. Police unions really are the worst: http://www.newyorker.com/ma…

Bummer.

Tom Scharpling, too. He works on this as well.

What made me lose hope in a swap very quickly was that it was *four* people from each tribe. If they'd been creating a new third "mixed" tribe, it would have been *three* people from each existing tribe, not four. Even so, then I started hoping they were going to have to figure out a way to choose which six would have…