God set a flower on your head, @sean_callaghan:disqus.

What helped me read Pride & Prejudice, was years of deep absorption into the Aubrey/Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian. With that as background, I was able to "get" the world, and the prose, in a way that I think I wouldn't have if I had tackled P&P 10 years earlier.

I thought he was energetic and charming, did a good job. He doesn't have the – gravitas, maybe? – of Wilmore, but he's faster and has a little more jokes-per-minute energy. I think it'll wind up being a good show. Not as "important" as it was under Stewart, maybe not as important as Wilmore, but good. And Noah…

Oops. Yes, you're totally right. I had the wrong anecdote.

That story sounds a lot more like John being an asshole, than like their damaged relationship is the song's fault. When you work with someone who is super-talented, you have to be gracious about their successes, or the relationship falls apart.

I thought the original recording was just Paul with one instrument, and he was upset that George Martin added all the goopy strings etc.

"Gimme Gimme Gimme" is better than either one.

Mitzi Kapture!

It is ALWAYS plausible to claim that Reagan had no knowledge of something. Completely plausible.

Fox News has dragged the U.S. political conversation—and, hence, practice—so far to the right that the left has shrunk and shifted

I was really wowed by Raury's performance.

Same reason they can't send women to Venus?

In 1972, Mary Rodgers released the novel Freaky Friday, which was “young adult” before the genre had been invented.

Wow. I had no idea that the awesome Steadicom shot at the opening of the West Wing episode "Five Votes Down", is an homage to this Goodfellas Steadicam shot. Even down to Bartlett embarrassing the couple in the hallway. I've always loved that scene from West Wing, rewind every time I watch the episode. I had NO…

I really can't stand what Miller had done with the character by the time of DKSA

Tom Snyder was my dude. His Late Late Show is still the best.

"What are two parts of Janel Maloney that I want to touch", Alex?

That's fine if it was only one episode. Janel Maloney was in only one episode; I still wanted to see it.

Which was the season finale where House dumped his whole team, and then next season started auditioning a new team? (Agent 13 joined then, etc?) Was it end season 3 / begin season 4? That was the watershed for House. It was excellent before then, borderline stupid & intolerable after.

Wait, Franka Potente was ever in House?