There is a disconnect. For example, being able to describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics is one part of basic scientific literacy, but how many people can do that? It's like the equivalent of having read Faulkner or having seen Kubrick, except… uninteresting?

Even though it's the weakest of McCarthy's three wide-release films (the others being No Country for Old Men and The Road) I still mulled over it a good deal. In the end, it's too vague, goes over the top on the existential things (I mean, if one author could have nameless characters, it's McCarthy, but here it feels…

The thing is that they kind of ran out of things to do with her after [I guess I should mention these are season 2 spoilers] Jimmy got killed. Great at the whole Oedipal thing, but otherwise? She just didn't seem to really matter anymore, unfortunately.

Ensemble-cast shows like Skins and The Wire are bound to have one or two characters who people think are underutilized, but it's inevitable. And opinions on who is underutilized vary from person to person. You win some, you lose some.

Yeah, I don't really know what they were thinking with that. That they say the writers "weren't sure how to work her into the story" or that she "got shuttled into a storyline that wasn’t connected to any of the other characters" is off. She's probably one of the best-developed characters on the show and all of the…

All science-related, but there's Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking (and there was also Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman, as long as I'm listing names). Not that hard to find.

The TED Talks guy.

What about the person who dares whimper, "Chris Anderson"?

"Welcome to the A.V. Club, I love you."

Speaking of which:

Fred Armisen has German, Japanese, and Venezuelan heritage, so their diversity really took a hit when he left.

What about Eskim-eh?

It's important to make sure that gimmick accounts are genuine.

I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.

""fear is used to enslave the masses," i said as i ripped the fuckin decorative cardboard santa off of the community centers bulletin board"

I know, right? I never understood that.

"so i heard they invented a new type of mirror that spares me from having to lay eyes upon my extremely hideous visage. it's called a "wall""

Good to hear that he has a moral barometer.

Really liked that game. Minimalist, yet exhausting.

"Scandal took gore up a notch when Olivia Pope’s mother, played by Khandi Alexander, ate her own wrists to get transferred from her high-security cell to an infirmary"