Well, that's kinda my point. If you are walking past a street dealer, you are coming much, much closer to both a loaded gun and the threat of it being used in your general direction than I've ever been going to a house with guns in it.

I don't own a gun and never will, but I've had some friends that do, and I just find your ideas regarding houses with guns odd. Like another poster said, it just seems like ignorance. You seem to be of the mindset that your average gun owner just has a loaded Uzi sitting on the couch just waiting to play some Russian…

I think this is a great point. Things were definitely easier on this front before the internet. Before the internet, I don't think people were as aware of various ideological positions as they are now, allowing someone to take in something a Vidal or Mailer said without fitting them into those corridors, as you say.…

It's weird that fascism is brought up because that description - of a person who can commit evil but its okay because he meant well - sounds far more like FDR than it does Hitler.

I don't know why people are confused or are you expecting this to be something thrown in at the very end of this season.

I'm confused on what this list is. By that logic, you could say that Stacey Rambold is a disgusting human being, but he's not, say, Bashar al-Assad, so he's pretty far down on the list. You could use that same logic to defend ALL rapists in America - because, hey, even combined, they aren't say, the Nazis. But that…

This is from the official transcript from Roman Polanski's plea deal:

You make it sound like there was one guy in charge of the Polanski case and that he was just sitting on his hands for thirty years and then suddenly became interested.
It's most likely that those in charge of the case left it long ago and it got piled over with new cases until someone took an interest in it again. It…

"convinced the Los Angeles D. A.’s office that something absolutely had to be done about a 76-year-old man who had confessed to a 32-year-old crime, but who no one had accused of being a repeat offender."

"You’re always on good, solid moral ground saying the worst about child rapists, but when some man on the street grins from ear to ear and expresses the hope that Polanski will wind up in jail and run into “his old pal, Manson,” it’s hard not to feel that more than one button is being pushed."

It's up to you, but as someone who was in the exact same place, I'd keep on reading.

Yes! I actually didn't hate LOST, but the idea that it was a character driven show is just revisionist bullshit mainly used to make critics of the show look like obsessive nerds who are just nitpicking every detail.

Comparing it to the X-Files doesn't make a lot of sense because the mythology is just one part of the X-Files. It had plenty of standalone episodes.

Listen, no one enjoys some good LOST snark more than me, but I really don't understand the appearance of shock and outrage over the "straight up lies" comment.

Can someone remind me exactly what happened during the whole ricin-Brock storyline? Because I'm a little hazy on the details.

Okay, this just had to be posted here. From Sims' newbies review:

With my cable service, the last few episodes are available On Demand. Not sure if it's the same with you, but you should check.

This is what I'm assuming.

I enjoyed the episode overall, but two character's need major plot line overhauls like now:

I believed Todd did the same thing last week, wondering if Robb's plan would work or not. It's part of the whole "no spoilers" thing, but yeah, I find it really bizarre.