Oh I love the comparison between Tony and the bear. It is of course something we noted when the season began but I had forgotten by now. But of course Tony ends the season coming home out of the woods just like the season began with the bear.

Cold Cuts:

I finished season 5 of the Sopranos to discuss with Scrawler below.

this is the internet, someone always knows porn abbreviations here

seems like everyone but Carl Reiner, who is still alive and even has a twitter account!

this exactly, because Chandra was a secondary character it made her choices poorly conceived and justified. Are these choices inherently unrealistic, not necessarily, but because they were given to the prominent female character, who was secondary to the male characters it feels rushed and justified.

that isn't exactly true, the US did have jewish athletes as part of its delegation, notably two members of the track relay team, but didn't use them despite the fact they qualified because of the embarrassing Hitler aspect. So they were there, but they didnt get to run

Steel Man

and I'm done. All I can say is that knowing Drew Magary's past work I love the last character the main guy meets in the book.

yeah i'll probably read them right after I finish The Hike (the Twelve is already on my kindle)

so i have heard from everyone who gives the one line review

yeah they are fun, I think I liked this one more than 2.

no idea. also i emailed you, but the reading thread went up this morning

hilarious. love that french comedy

Read a bunch since last month:

I don't know enough about criminal forensics to say one way or the other, but even in the bounds of the specifics they were talking about there were more cogent cross questions that should have been asked.

yeah the ME should be independent, but man are cases like that one in boston fucking rare. and they are rare because they tend to be another extension of the system to convict rather than investigate

never read madame bovary so i wouldn't know, but yeah seems funny to consider.

Well I would disagree. The system is not designed to find the truth, it is designed to convict someone. Box is a very good servant of the system in that way, but he is blinded to the same prejudices that animate the system, namely that it is trying to convict someone, not necessarily trying to find the truth. the…

I was watching with my parents because I'm on vacation and me and mom both yelled at the tv when that happened. Glad to know she has my back on this shit