I wish it was Schaal. Go really weird and cute with it.

JON! JON! IT'S ME AASIF MANDVI, AT THE SITE OF THE THING! JON!

Benghazi and so on :)

Indeed. Which is another disturbingly illiberal aspect of the system. If the potential sentence is severe enough, prosecutors can extract guilty pleas from anyone. Mostly the state just decides your fate unilaterally at this point without any other process intruding.
http://www.nybooks.com/arti…

Yeah, the 'Kids for Cash' scandal. I think that was analogous to Bernie Madoff in the sense that it's a potential distraction from the fact that the overall system is corrupt.

Are you suggesting that the US Constitution isn't a canonical Biblical text?

Sure, structural unemployment isn't a bug, it's an instrinsic feature of the capitalist mode of production. It's the 'reserve army of labour' in Marxist terms. That's not the spontaneous result of some mythical free market, it's the result of conscious political choices. 'Full employment' is not even a concept in…

Pretty sure that's in the Bible.

Second highest per capita rate after the tiny Seychelles? It's okay, though, because recidivism rates are just wonderfully low in the US, aren't they? There's been some recent attention given to Norway, which actually focuses on humane rehabilitation where possible, instead of being pathologically obsessed with…

Sure, this is in the public interest. It clearly isn't safe for this woman to be walking the streets. USA: largest prison state on earth.

Of course!

It hardly needs to be said that Chopra's a fraud, but there's no scientific consensus that 'eternal inflation' is the correct model.
http://www.physics.princeto…
http://www.preposterousuniv…

Oh, Ghost of Eazy E! Whatever are we going to do with you?! I intended 'popular' to be in invisible parenthesis, but are you really grouping those people together? Whitney Houston was god awful. You're an incorrigible scamp.

YOU'RE STRAIGHT UP WEIRD! YOU ARE!

Quite the ensemble in that one.

I wasn't aware of this being a terribly eccentric opinion.

Before you start in with the abuse, bear in mind that without her there'd have been no Bio-Dome. Or at least no Bio-Dome worthy of the name.

I'll concede Ella, at least.

I think his singing was every bit as remarkable. Who's in the same class in popular music? Holiday, Sinatra, Aretha? Not many more.

Possibly the greatest singer of the last century for Hatesong? Bold choice, even if due entirely to negative associations.