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The sociopath interview was fucking stupid.

As a history nerd GWTW fascinates me as a historical document. The Godfather bores me.

My Life is So Called…

"Aló Presidente was a hit in Venezuela!"

Homer S.: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber

"that show about the first female MLB pitcher"

She's a good spy, and thorough.

Obviously "thread" is some sort of biological lab term relating to how pathogens are contained, but what the hell was he talking about? What's a thread?

With all the nuclear war talk I thought it was apropos to mention the definitive historical account of nuclear warfare.

It belongs in a museum!

PSA: If you've never read the book "Hiroshima" by John Hersey then you need to read the book "Hiroshima" by John Hersey. It's a collection of accounts by people who survived Hirsohima. At 160 pages, it's a quick read.

I wonder if that is in fact what's going to happen.

Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has television remotes.

It was the Arapaho National Forest, not national park. This is really the kind of thing schools should be teaching.

"During this fight, I've seen a lot of changing, in the way you feel about me, and in the way I feel about you. In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess that's better than twenty million. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!"

Maybe Koreans found out about granite countertops before everyone else.

As a The Americans fan I'm glad The Americans is on Amazon, so I can watch past seasons without any throttling bullshit. But as a The Americans fan I wish The Americans was on Netflix, so the show would get the audience it deserves.

Your other two options on the evening of Sunday, November 20 1983 were "Alice" on CBS, and "Kennedy" on NBC, starring Martin Sheen.

If you're ever looking for a light beach read check out "Berlin: The Downfall 1945" by Antony Beevor. The book details the brutal Red Army advance into Eastern Europe, including the well documented, but still very controversial claim that the Soviets allowed the Red Army to rape every German woman they could get their