Harden's D is noticeably better this season. Still has the lapses, but his overall halfcourt play is much improved.

I spent my formative years in Germany and our relatives would send over VHS tapes loaded with whatever they'd taped off of ABC or HBO or MTV (back when it was new) or whatever. I should probably do a blog on all those VHS tapes, but it was truly a golden list of early 80s formative experiences:

I saw this movie and remember basically nothing about it except the prison scene at the end.

Also it dropped a Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer reference which was mind-boggling to me at the time (I was not aware of the early works of John Waters.)

Oh, there are plenty of great black performers from back in the day still around: Aretha, Stevie, Diana, Smokey, Sly Stone (…or IS HE?), but you've also got

Black music artists just don't live long.

I finally understand now: you're the ghost of me past, haunting me with reminders of exactly how clever I was in those fateful AOL chat rooms of yesteryear.

"Someone tries to bring down the entire Democratic party, the "party of tolerance", by calling one person in it intolerant"

You can be sanctimonious, I allow it, just embrace it, don't pretend you're a tolerant person when you're considering anyone who didn't vote your way to be practicing hate speech.

Also, "old petard" = 819 Google results (almost all of which are talking about actual petards), "old canard" - 75,000 Google results, just admit you used the wrong word.

But … you're the one using hate speech here - how do you not see that? You're comparing a person's free political vote to hate speech - that's the same rhetoric Mao (and Pinochet, and Franco, and Hitler, and Castro, and plenty of right-wing fascists) used when they were putting people up against the wall.

Canard, not petard. And no, tolerance is not calling people dipshits and inferring they're chromosomally deficient, and has nothing to do with supporting positions you don't agree with.

Maybe he finds the cultural Left to be highly intolerant? 'Cuz you're not exactly doing a bang-up job of convincing him to join your side.

Did you really need to qualify it? This is the Internet, that guy is the worst.

I watched maybe the first … 7 episodes or so at air time, and then missed one, and another, and I just didn't want to spoil it, so I stopped watching, didn't miss it, really, and then my wife and I went to Egypt and we were stuck in a hotel for the night and this episode came on and it convinced me to download all the…

Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

Oh, I dunno, the Labyrinth/minotaur stuff is the most compelling one, mostly because of all the set design / location confusion that's actually there in the film, and you know, the huge hedge maze.

It's not in the original script, the girls probably just improvised it - fine work there, ladies.

I never considered that before, but now you've made me realize another reason I don't like this movie: the real villain is Male Answer Syndrome.

It is only what the abductor tells him, but you see enough of the movie from Raymond's perspective and his demeanor to know he's not a man who would lie or mess with someone.