The alternate lyrics are Liverpool's gift to the rest of us.

It was one of those sketches that reminds me why I bother staying up with my TV until 1am on a Saturday. An SNL that doesn't rattle some cages might as well be Mad TV.

The "letting the market decide makes everything better" crew. So yeah, Ted Cruz.

The compulsion to obsessively recap and separately review every single episode of a series could very well be an invention of Internet wrestling writers. TV Club was built on the shoulders of Figure 4 Weekly and Slobberknocker Central.

The death of kayfabe is like what happened in Vegas when card counting was invented. The casinos freaked the hell out at first, but then they realized that most people who claim to know how to do it never really get that good at it, and their money spends the same as everybody else's.

Absolutely. The facts all line up, but ethics aren't in the driver's seat.

Even if all he did was set the tone and keep the interference low for the people who do the real heavy lifting, it's still something to be proud of.

Stephanie McMahon is possibly the most nuanced villain in the company right now. She loves the company her granddad started in the wilderness years more than any individual performer (excepting the one she ended up marrying, of course), so she has the clearest motivations for everything she does. When she starts…

The cartoon in that quote was going to be Ninja Turtles, but I wasn't feeling brave enough. :shrug:

I get really twitchy with the people who swing too far in the other direction, the ones who were something like 7 or 8 years old and are just waaaay too uncritical about what they grew up with as people who didn't grow up in war zones or other dangerous situations inevitably are. "Full House and Saved By The Bell and…

All I ask is one good Stan and Ollie biopic while people who still give a damn are still alive. Why do we keep getting crap like this instead?

The people who called the 80s an "ugly, ugly era" are usually the ones that came of age in the 80s and still remember that the first "70s revival" was ironic 90s alt-rockers pissing on 'AM gold' because they're too cool to tackle The Carpenters at anything but arm's length. Trying to steer people away from the 80s is…

All the late-night comedy people were extra fragile in the weeks after the attack. It's a shame that Jon is the only one who keeps getting that thrown back into his face, because moments of genuine emotion are now considered points of attack.

Opinions = O'Reilly and Hannity's shows. Opinion is the label on the package, which makes slightly it easier to take.

The truth must lie somewhere in between.

Actually, I was talking about the way average people (who don't run for anything and don't think they have time to investigate) usually talk about politics the way we talk about team sports, and spend whatever time they think about politics rooting for "our" side. One of the many downsides of that "approach" is that a…

One of the sad truths is that revoking access is an effective enough tool that a more official version of press censorship isn't necessary for the American corporate media. Of course, that doesn't explain how Infowars keeps getting credentialed…

There's just so many shades of wrong with the "pick a side and dig a trench" approach that you'll have to forgive us for missing a few on the first pass.

Bless you.

Which begs the question: If people only want their opinions reinforced, is the obligation of the newsroom to give them exactly that and nothing more? Or is it to give them a thing that they'd rather not hear but desperately need to, whether they'll ever admit it or not?