I don't think real politicians work well in drama. Comedy, like Biden on Park and Rec. But if you stop to ask yourself whether the actual Obama/Cheney/etc would go along with whatever comic-book plot is on screen for a world-in-danger drama, it tends to knock suspension of disbelief out.

The sexual version of the Darwin Awards…

I'll note that porn aimed at women spends very little time on sheer size, and what there is probably comes closer to "he was above average in all things—taller, smarter, sexier, cooler, stronger…" If the porn is just a bunch of penis shots… the intended audience is not women.

I wish I had good advice. It doesn't sound like he's so far gone that you could view this as sort-of dementia? (Old person sometimes doesn't know what they're saying, nod and redirect, because arguing with them about where Uncle Albert is really isn't going to work.)

"I asked her to do this, and she did, and then I decided I didn't like it, and now I can't shake the conviction that that's really how she's always felt…"

I imagine the overlap of "eccentric tech-savvy billionaires" and "people who would LOVE their own bat cave" is actually pretty large.

Since we have no politics thread yet: Via TPM, a Where's Waldo game. If you go to the RNC website gop.com, someone is conspicuously missing.

We will type very, VERY hard about this.

Seriously, AVC: a placeholder review. "Synecdoche: it happened. Discuss." That's all we ask.

I hate to be That Person, but could we go to placeholder reviews like GoT? It's only two more episodes!

I would have been throwing up after 3 rounds.

Unless it's done with a light tone in a comedy (Biden on Parks and Rec is hilarious), I think incorporating real politicians usually messes with suspension of disbelief. You get distracted into whether Actual Dick Cheney would go along with this silly plan that Pretend Dick Cheney is. Completely aside from whether the…

The options seem to be:
1: small penises
2: tubes of benzoyl peroxide
3: condoms

It's in his office at The Stranger.

That would be the slogan if she was going against Bush.

A while back Dan had a letter from a guy who liked cuckold fantasies, who would ask his wife about Bad Thoughts she'd had. She amped it up a tiny bit one day, claimed a touch of groping might have happened a couple years back, and he was super super into it… until he came down and immediately became all "OMG she…

Of course Shaw mourns by being constantly spun in circles. Because she is just that badass.

One of many where you wish she had written in, because the advice would be easy.

If ever there was a species who has mastered "I meant to fall off that chair" via body language…

No conservation of scumbag-hood. It's like the miracle of the loaves and fishes.