Complete misread. The company was not primarily in the business of selling oxygen to its workers. It was a mining (I think?) operation that required its workers to buy everything, including oxygen, from the company store. Expelling non-store brand oxygen was not done with the primary purpose of killing the workers,…

Sasha's Deitrich was great but after the workroom preview I was 100% behind Ruth Butler. That was next-level amazing.

Chick was a career criminal who tried to get Dylan and Caleb killed in a gun-running scheme. And befriending Norman for the purpose of writing a book about him is sketchy. Not Truman Capote levels of sketchy but still pretty sketch.

21 Jump Street holds the distinction of being the first American television series to include a lesbian kiss. In 1990's "A Change of Heart" Hoffs goes undercover on the student newspaper to investigate a teacher's death. The editor kisses her one night after the latest issue has been put to bed. Surprisingly, the kiss…

In good but possibly fleeting news, the defendant in the case that resulted in the 7th Circuit finding that Title VII bans sexual orientation discrimination will not appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. This finding therefore becomes binding precedent for the three states in the Circuit, one of which is mine. I…

I remain profoundly disappointed that Meyer rejected John Waters's suggestion that he title his memoir Berlin Alexandertitz.

I have a Kevin Federline story!

Jeopardy! Objection!

For that rhyming words walking clue I came up with "What are amble and gambol?" While "gambol" more generally means "skip" Webster's includes as a definition "frolic". I'd need to double-check the exact wording of the clue but had I been ruled incorrect on that one I would have fought like hell for it.

Following the reveal of Laura Palmer's killer on Twin Peaks the MP scene where Kimberly takes off her wig is the second-most frightening moment ever on broadcast television.

Blood-letting fictional characters, a word please? If you need some of your blood for a ritual do not slice open your palm. That goes double if you expect to be holding a weapon or engaging in hand-to-hand combat in the near future. I understand that it is visually interesting and, more importantly, a cheap and easy…

I don't believe a filibuster will even be necessary. So many factions of the GOP hate this bill for so many different reasons that the party will tear the bill apart and ultimately not pass anything out of either house.

The Republicans never cared about replacing the ACA. They only cared about repealing it. Had they really cared about replacing it they would have had a plan available years ago. This is a pile of garbage they cobbled together after Trump's stunning upset, the party collectively gulping and saying "Oh shit, we actually …

Yes. It's being spun that he made an appearance at some event where the Russian ambassador just happened to be present. Trump went through a receiving line and no one can quite recall what if anything the two said to each other. Trump was then led to a holding area before making his speech and was then led back to the…

The one time someone self-identifies as a go-go dancer on Jeopardy! and I missed the opening introductions! I also only half-heard the contestant chit-chat on the way to the can because when does anyone ever say anything interesting? Today, apparently.

Pretty sure I said the argument was horseshit…

"Ray? Why don't you put on your ATOM suit, fly to where the time dingus landed and pick it up?"
"If I do that the episode will come in about fifteen minutes short."
"Oh."

The syndication edit stops right after Anya's "Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!"

I understand the sentiment but there are clearly multiple methods of raising the dead in the Buffyverse. The Zeppo zombies are all mundane humans so their raising is similarly mundane. Joyce comes back as the result of a Monkey's Paw-style bargain with Doc; different method, different creep factor. And of course Buffy…

I always have to put in a sentimental vote for "The Prom". Great character stuff for pretty much everyone, Buffy's "you will have a good night if I have to kill everything" determination, a solid and comedic fight and Buffy being named "Class Protector" kills me every time.