Dunning-Kruger is America’s personal egregore.

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I think you’re probably right, the writer is most likely being sincere. I just see the word “BRILLIANT” in all-caps, and there’s a part of my brain that INSISTS that I MUST be reading satire, because even on the AVClub in 2020, nobody is actually PAYING for writing that JUVENILE.

Tomorrow’s headline: BRILLANT AVclub comment makes LAW-SCHOOL-WORTHY case that all latter-day AVclub articles are better if you take out all the words and replace them with different words.

I’m kind of torn here. If your breathless prose is sarcastic, then it seems like some kind of unseemly “punching down.” If you’re NOT being ironic, then it’s...unseemly in a whole different way. This write-up clearly sucks, but its ambiguous why it sucks. Please advise.

I have that book! I didn’t grow up with it, but I got a copy in adulthood. That actually might be the very edition that I read out loud to my kids.

I think the comment about memory was meant to convey much more than just a band-aid on a wound to our hearts. This episode dips pretty deep into a lot of philosophical streams, East, West and others, and memory plays a powerful role in certain spiritual systems. “Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian…

People like to feel superior by denigrating classic things that other people love. It’s almost like for certain people, canonical literature becomes something of a...oh, shoot, I can’t think of a good metaphor for an adversary you take on just for the pure spite of it.

I probably learned the “rule of three” from Star Trek before I did from comedy.

Star Trek “science” is basically one step away from just putting the word “space” in front of everything as a modifier. Star Trek “logic” doesn’t usually do much better.

I know I’m old and don’t get how people even work anymore what with the internets and all, but making public, published apologies to individual people you wronged, instead of privately to the person, is really fucking weird, right? Somebody give me a sanity check on that. 

Fortunately, judging other people’s lifestyle choices remains perfectly normal!

That sucks, man, I’m sorry you went through that. :(

When I was a kid in the 80's, my mom had a breadmaker, and from what I was told at the time it was a pretty big trend. So I did actually cut my own bread as a kid. But I am also old as fuck, so...not arguing your point, really.

Yeah, “Worst Movies with a $60M+ budget” didn’t make quite as snazzy a headline, but that’s basically what he’s saying this list is.

I assume you’re referencing something in the podcast which is blocked for me right now, so my comment may not match the context, but: if I were ever in a situation where I had to decide on the fly whether to use “causticity” or “causticness,” I would probably just do a Porky Pig and edit my thought mid-sentence to use…

That’s a tough call. I’ve read Kevin Murphy’s book, and two of Mike Nelson’s books, plus pretty much all the episode reviews they each wrote for the MST3K episdoe guide, and for the Ward E website. Mike Nelson is, to me, the funniest one on paper by a wide margin. Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy are much better actors…

Me, I’m horophobic - terrified of timepieces. I’m not sure how long I’ve been thus afflicted, for obvious reasons...

To be fair: the yoga required for me to actually get the sun to shine on my butthole for even thirty seconds in a row would indeed see me achieve a much greater degree of physical fitness than I can currently boast.

Come on, man. The headline and the article are snarked to capacity. It’s not an epic takedown or anything, but the whole point of this Newswire is to use her apology as an excuse to fling shit at her for a years-old indiscretion. And I don’t have a single problem giving celebrities shit for old news. But using a…