I don't know. When I was in high school and working at a movie theater, there was a guy who was arrested for masturbating in the theaters. He eventually admitted to doing it over 300 times. He looked and gave off the same vibe as Dan Harmon.

I'm a sucker for anything "true crime." And the cheesier the better. It's been like that for as long as I can remember—literally.

Fair points, to some extant. But what I'm trying to say is that I'm a decent case study for exactly what you're talking about. When Harmon left, I wasn't as despondent as most fans of the show. I didn't even really care, especially after it was known that several of the core writing group would be sticking around. I…

Yeah, I still have all of them on my DVR. Maybe I'll watch them this week just to see that episode.

Season 4 had its moments, and I kept trying to like it. But I missed the last 3 episodes and I feel no immediate need to watch them.

Good points. I don't feel like I'm giving him credit, though. It's more a statement on how bad things have gotten than on how good Nixon was.

Nixon, for all intents purposes, despite being a dark, venal, slimy, venomous political monster, was far more "left-wing" than any other president after him with the exception of Carter. He was more liberal than Clinton and Obama. Hell, Clinton and Obama have either successfully dismantled or attempted to dismantle…

It's the hypocrisy, on a babel of levels. They're supposed to be about peace and love and acceptance, but they're just as closed-minded to ideas that don't fit their worldview as anyone else.

Roman Polanski's a child rapist and a lot people still like his movies.

Yeah, don't even get me started on SLP. So many people dismiss it as "Just another typical rom-com." It's like, okay, I must've missed all the parts where Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher/Gerard Butler/some other idiot actor argue over whether Heigl's character is simply an insufferable bitch or whether the man is…

No. Not knowing spoiler going into a movie is like sleeping with a woman with big breasts: it's a plus, not a must.

It wanted you to empathize AND laugh at the characters. The point was that greed and stupidity are a bad combination for ambitious HUMANS.The characters were relatable in their hopes and dreams, but not so much in their morals. Why is the movie punished for that? That's an interesting conflict.

If Harmony Kormine was the one who made Pain and Gain and Bay made Springbreakers, people would love Pain and Gain and shit on Springbreakers.

There's been a weird sort of backlash to David O. Russell. The man doesn't make the kind of distinct, personal, idiosyncratic movies that most of the "the greats" are sort of known for. He's not Scorsese. He's not Tarantino. He's not even Nolan. But he makes extremely well-made mainstream fare, and I don't understand…

Don't ask how, but for pretty much the entire first season I thought it was an hour-long dramedy. The tone had much more in common with hour-long dramedies than with a sitcom, and the humor, in my opinion, was always just mildly amusing, not guffaw inducing. I surprised to learn in season 2 that each episode was only…

They were fascists. Fascist societies are always quite safe and well-run. The movie posits that it's still better to put up with the bullshit associated with allowing humans to have freedom than to be safe and forced to behave against your will.

I don't know. I thought one of the messages of the movie was that it's better to be a fuck-up, miserable human being like Pegg, than to be a robot. Humanity is beautiful, even when it's ugly—that sort of thing. Destroying the world and returning to the dark ages is preferable to being the robots bitches. It's about…

I spent all season trying to defend it, and then I didn't even end up watching the last 3 episodes. It was weird. It wasn't terrible, but I didn't anticipate watching it every week, either.

Also, I encourage anybody who believes guns make anyone safer to read Randall Collins' "Violence." In the book, Collins points out that simply owning a gun doesn't suddenly turn a person into John McClaine. He makes a pretty strong case that human beings, as a whole, are spectacularly terrible at violence. If you gave…

It's not a true story anyway. Criminals are fucking morons, but they're not so idiotic as to discuss their plans in a manner so that a supposedly unsuspecting victim can hear. Also, the car screeching to a halt escape plan is too fucking stupid. Did the stars align and Jaybee ran into simultaneously the most awful and…