I don't watch it very often. My son watches it more than I do. I catch an episode here and there when he's watching it. From what I've seen it's not nearly as bad as I've heard. It's stupid as hell, but it kind of knows it's stupid. I find it's lack of smarts and its lack of desire to be smart kind of refreshing.

Yeah, I live in the southwest, and I know many Dene (Navajo) and Hopi, and most of them find the name offensive. Getting rid of the name isn't at the top of their priority list or anything, but they obviously don't like it, and it would probably be a good thing to just get rid of it.

They suspended Stephen A. Smith for like a week after he basically said Janay Rice was asking to be hit.

Agreed. The problem is that South Park always has to have a point, and often that point is fucking stupid. As bad as Family Guy often is, at least you don't have to put up with 22-minute thinly veiled diatribes about MacFarlane's politics.

Jackie Brown was my de facto choice for Sunday morning hangover viewing. It's not as exciting as Pulp Fiction, but it's perfect in a quiet kind of way.

Yeah, that simile has been used about 72 billion times to describe this movie (I wonder why).

Clean Slate and Major League were pretty awesome for 10 year old me. And the chick from VR Troopers play a significant role in getting me through those rough first few initial months of puberty.

I did. It was glorious. Realizing that Goodfeathers was a spoof on Goodfellas was probably my introduction to "meta."

Yeah, and what's up with this guy hating on the fact that Bradley wrote songs about stupid shit? Because every song has to make be depressed or angry or petulant to be worthwhile? Sometimes I want to put on a song about a dude and his dog. I don't always need to be reminded about how shitty the world is.

I have an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, a license in my state as a professional counselor and am certified at the state and national levels as an addictions counselor. But I know a lot of people with a lot of credentials who are dumb as shit. I also know practitioners who are still working on their…

I am a mental health professional, and I stand by what I wrote. People have difficulty coping with the everyday stressors of life. That doesn't make them mentally ill. That makes them human.

Trust me. I actively avoid it, and I still hear it. My wife laughs every time that song comes on, because she knows I go out of my way to not hear it.

What the Sean O'Neal's secret? I would think it takes a lot of hard work to not hear shit like "Fancy" when I can't even walk into a single store, or watch a single channel on the television without it coming on at some point.

Well, true-blue "mental illness" is relatively rare. "Adjustment disorders" are much more common, and, while technically a "mental illness," they literally are conditions that can be cured or the symptoms mediated by things like falling in love or doing something fun. Most people who commit suicide aren't in the…

Yeah. I think there's some truth to those claims.

I like how you dismiss the Florentine Codex as something of a spurious piece of work. De Sahagun wrote it in conjunction with surviving Aztecs and it took him decades to write it. By all indications, he was very careful and thoughtful with the work. There's very little evidence that much—if any— of the content was…

Franco seems like king douche in real life. But there are few movies he's been in where he's not really good.

Prequels are interesting test cases for whether spoilers matter as much as we think they do or not. Personally, I've found that I like the journey more than the destination, and I've actually enjoyed a number of prequels despite knowing where they were going. I still feel that the Star Wars prequels could've been epic…

Eh, it's hard to say. The Incas and Aztecs and such thought they were fighting gods—gods who also happened to bring the pestilence of small pox with them because they were asshole gods or something. And Pizarro and Cortez did get a lot of help from rival tribes, which many consider the most effective aspect of the…

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