Bitching about bothsiderism is exactly the same as the MAGA whataboutism mindset.

I just think the stakes are too high now. I seriously doubt Biden even lives through a second term. 

At the risk of jumping in early on another thread doomed to get 300 comments from dozens of people arguing at each other, Jon Stewart was never —and certainly is not in this year 2024— a kingmaker. I watched TDS religiously through the first decade or so of his tenure, and Bush was still elected and subsequently reelec…

Except that’s not what Stewart did. He didn’t say “this makes him as bad a Trump” and to claim otherwise is putting words in his mouth. Pointing out the obvious, including clips of him mentally melting down in the middle of the press briefing held to demonstrate his mental acuity does not make him a Trump supporter. 

I guess they missed that his criticism of Trump also included that he’s a fascist piece of shit, but hey, get mad because your side insisted on a useless old fossil in order to beat a malevolent old fossil. That is totally Stewart’s fault. Totally.

I plan to vote for Joe Biden. I also hate Joe Biden. Like, hate.

Misogyny and racism are always part of the mix, but I think we can also embrace that some people just reasonably hated the way this season was crafted. Two things can be true. But Pizzolatto just has no class. He walked away from this show. And he can’t extend a little grace to its inheritors? Dude needs thereapy. 

The people I know who are watching S4 don’t even know the creative team changed, they just know it got good again after 2 seasons they didn’t like. I tell them it’s a new creative team and they’re super surprised.

Maybe the next time you think about posting some extremely reasonable take on an article like this, you take a second to look in the mirror and tell yourself that there is a guy named Hal in Vancouver who appreciates your input but wishes better for you than this site. Kind of a Good Will Hunting thing.

As a collector of vintage tools, I’ve a soft spot for The Testing Of Eric Olthwaite.

Palin has a lovely cameo in one of the seasons of ‘Staged’ where he savages David Tennant and Michael Sheen for improvising. Afterwards, Sheen says, “Maybe we could get one of the other Pythons to say something? One of the nice ones?” and Tennant yells, “He’s meant to be the nice one!”

I’m quite partial to ‘Across the Andes by Frog’.

Ian Ogilvy’s greatest performance.  Towards the end he is head hunted by Eton to become their school bully - Ogilvy himself went to school at Eton.

Palin’s diaries are so eye-opening in that regard. Not that Idle was always right or that he was excessively savvier than all of them, but there is a very interesting mix of “I’m just glad someone’s letting me do this” (Palin) with some “don’t commercialize the art” (Cleese/Jones/Gilliam) and “whatever” (Chapman).…

Also Cleese’s defense of her isn’t exactly convincing. “I find her very efficient, clear-minded, hardworking, and pleasant to have dealings with” ... ok fine, but is she any good managing your money?

“Father thinks daughter is doing great, film at 11.”

Shush , Cleese and Idle will sue them over the bloody name if they find out it exists.

I think it crops up more in his Python diaries than in say “Erebus Story of a Ship” *.

It occasionally hits those heights - particularly in Tomkinson’s School Days.

Ee’s not dead. Ee’s stunned.