There are a hell of a lot of "modern liberals", especially the atheist or agnostic ones, who like a lot of Maher's viewpoints and would take issue with characterizing "modern liberalism" this way. I'm wondering if you're buying into the right wing's demonizing of liberalism and their characterization of it as all…

Wait, there's a universe where we get a beautiful wife and a beautiful house? Which one is that? Is Trump president there too?

Wow, you actually get to see them coming in your dreams?! That's really generous of your brain. Mine are just a really bright flash and me screaming myself awake.

I like that they taste like raspberries, but they make me too sleepy. Some of us can only use them at night before bed.

Yes, that'll be known as the constitution's nasal passage.

Oh, they don't film any dramas in or around L.A. anymore. Not enough tax incentives.

Colbert is infinitely funnier than that useless drip Fallon, but unfortunately total viewers don't count for anything. Most advertisers are highly ageist. To my knowledge, only the 18-49 demo really matters. Advertisers are convinced that older people don't switch brands or try new things as readily. Also, the law of…

They still have Criminal Minds for white guy torture porn though, right?! Oh no wait, that one white guy got fired from that!

Not like this, no. They don't wander around the US in huge groups, murdering Army Rangers & their families w/impunity. Totally absurd. The rare ones (numbering in the tens of thousands worldwide, out of 1.6 billion) tend to be lone wolves in the US and many are incompetent, like the fried chicken joint dope who…

Stop trying to divide America, AV Club writers! We deserve better than your inflammatory attempt to split us up… into apostrophe abusers and non-abusers, with your bizarr-o construction "wish they had's." WTF is an apostrophe doing there? It's "wish-they-hads", you dopes!

Damn straight. Compared to much of the rest of the net, this place is a fucking miracle.

My concern, per Charles Stross, is that everybody will want to make a million copies of himself or herself or itself, each a light variant on the next, and see how they all play out and interact in parallel, etc. etc. And then everybody starts running out of hard drive space and wants to deconstruct all the planets,…

Ruth Wilson would be amazing, but every Showtime series that draws even the slightest bit of attention must run at least 7 seasons even when it no longer has any story to tell, so she's probably busy for the foreseeable future, unfortunately. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen that Showtime thing she's on, so I…

Yes please. That would redeem the depressing choice of Chibnall as the next showrunner for me. His DW scripts so far have been so boring and rote that they make me worried he'll also make a boring and rote choice for the person to play the next Doctor. (And no, Broadchurch season 1 doesn't make me any less worried.…

Oh, definitely, but I can't describe the difference (and I try to avoid bottled water whenever possible in general). I hate Dasani and Aquafina, they taste gross. Dasani is just filtered Fort Lauderdale tap water. Poland Spring is good, but I think it's owned by Nestle now, so I don't drink it very often.

That's the worst season of DS9. It got a hell of a lot better about halfway through season 2 (so, basically the same quality trajectory as TNG).

Wait, I forget, can actors remove themselves from contention? Is it the studio or the producers who control the submission? Maybe it wouldn't be advisable for Streep to do this, though — would there be some productions that might not want to work with her if they thought she might remove herself from Oscar…

Viceland took the place of H2 (a.k.a. History Channel 2). Instead of just shutting down H2, they got Vice to take its place. That's normally how it goes in cable-channel-land. I suppose there's still time for something to come along and claim this space but normally it would have already been announced, as the…

Good points, but I believe those were independently operated (by cable/satellite TV channel standards) and not owned by a big conglomerate like Comcast-Universal, which has a whole array of channels and thus can theoretically use the grodey time-honored technique of compelling carriage of their lesser channels on…

Nothing is going to buy up that channel space? Really? Is this a first? Normally somebody would come along and pony up some dump trucks full of cash and say, "I'll take that spot on the cable dial!" Is this the very beginning of the probably decades-long process of the decline of linear cable/satellite TV? Or am I…