He’s also great on The Good Wife/Fight, as an amoral attorney who milks his disease for all it’s worth in front of every jury and judge. MJF’s charisma is so great that you still can’t help loving the guy even as you hate him.

Ah yes, the noble game of soccar.

Young Werner Herzog had a real Gene Hackman/Paul Rudd thing going on.

The terms “pad” and “tab(let)“—and to some extent the concept—go back to the 1991 Scientific American article “The Computer for the 21st Century” by Marc Weiser of Xerox PARC, which has proved enormously influential on computer development in the thirty years since.

I think this would not convince them that Hollywood is not liberal, but rather that liberals are (the real) racists.

Yeah, he had some shitty, mean-spirited jokes (the wage gap riff was just baffling to me: the leap of logic didn’t make sense even as a joke), but I think the most tone-deaf part was just how self-absorbed it was. Going on about not making enough money off The Chappelle Show, griping about the small-town locals in…

And nobody is seeing a tiny problem making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film as an in-continuity sequel to a movie that came out 30 years ago?

It’s a word borrowed from Latin, where it means “with” and evolved into Spanish (but not French) con.

According to the author of that book about Melania (The Art of Her Deal), Melania’s parents basically live with them at the White House, and they all speak Slovenian with each other.

No, man. Nobody—except one asshole—is speaking ill of the Smashing Pumpkins that made Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie. The greatness of those albums is why the idea of Billy Corgan anno 2020 making a “sequel” falls somewhere between today’s The Simpsons announcing a sequel to “Marge vs. the Monorail” and Woody Allen…

None of these arguments or analogies are relevant. English pronunciation is notoriously inconsistent. The normal pronunciation of “Anna” is /ˈænə/ (ANN-uh) simply because that’s how most English-speakers, certainly in the US, say it.

It’s a rare win, tho’.

Hot take: Dexter was never actually great. At its best it was a guilty pleasure carried by a strong performance by Michael C. Hall (with occasional support from single-season guest stars) and weighed down by absolutely terrible acting from pretty much the entire rest of the cast.

Yes, that’s probably the one I was thinking of. Thanks!

Wasn’t there another TV show in the years since that ended with sending off its main character to live in the Canadian woods in the series finale? I could swear there was, but I can’t remember it or find it by googling.

Throw in Anthony Michael Hall so I can finally stop worrying about having to keep him and MCH straight.

I’m not a wrestling afficionado, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Perkins was saying with “it’s what those in the wrestling world might call a worked shoot.”

I’m not convinced I would call Lowe a “breakout star” on The West Wing, exactly. Sheen aside, he was the most famous one coming in (and initially made more money than the rest of the cast, again minus Sheen, which I seem to remember was part of the conflict that led to his departure once that changed), and sure, he…

Any part of Europe that includes Germany is “a big chunk of Europe.” And of course it’s regulated with safeguards—whoever said it wasn’t?

The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg allow euthanasia (a doctor kills you on your request). Germany and Switzerland allow assisted suicide (a doctor provides you with the drugs for you to kill yourself).