At first I wondered if they had died in a tragic small plane accident under suspicious circumstances, then I contemplated the dance of choice to break out over the decidedly non-traditional but arguably Republican-in-spirit mass grave, and now I’m regretting the impulse to lay out my shoes and tights as I recall that…

I’m pretty sure that White House staffers are being held at gun-point by now or at least digging emergency tunnels.

Well, it’s New Year’s Friday which means that MSNBC is nothing but year-end retrospectives on the first year of hell that is the Dumpster Fire Presidency.

I know! I always described this show as having the same set up as a porn

He hollered because the NY office of the FBI was full of Trumpers who were close with Rudy Giuliani and they were threatening to leak it if he didn’t announce it, which might have looked even worse. He really could have been more detailed about what was actually there rather than leaving it perfectly vague for the…

No, we won’t have them. Maybe the island from Lord of the Flies.

Comey has integrity; he just let his sanctimonious side take over when he made some terrible judgment calls about Hillary Clinton. I was willing to overlook them after Trump got elected because he was heading an investigation into Trump and he was not a Trump stooge and, at the time, was the only one standing between…

If only we could get a mass firing via FedEx for the rest of them, followed by mass incarcerations.

At best he’s evened out his fuckery but even then hopefully ridding the WH of Trump within 16 months won’t really make up for that week when he could’ve just shut up and let Hillary win rather than reopening an already dead investigation.

I am so goddamned conflicted about James Comey. On the one hand, he likely handed Trump the presidency with his ill-timed “We’re still looking into her emails” comment. On the other hand, he showed at least a little integrity (which is like, a lot of integrity in 2017 currency) by not agreeing to turn a blind eye to…

Curtis Stone originally had this really weird show called the Take Home Chef (I think) where he would wander a grocery store and basically pick up a woman so he could teach her how to cook a good meal for her significant other. It was a weird concept made weirder by the fact that Curtis Stone is ridiculously…

Keep kids away from everything. Precociousness is just another word for annoying little shit.

Definitely. Updating/making healthy a kid’s menu item is a good challenge. It didn’t need the dumb kid-size cooking equipment.

I was quite surprised that they didn’t bring up the pirogi repeat. My wife said “Uh oh...” when she plated it and got lukewarm, at best, comments. She was convinced, as was I, that Tom would point out the repeat at judges’ table.

Agreed that the quickfire was stupid and not what Top Chef is supposed to be about. Although I do have a sneaking suspicion that the kids’ criticism was a result of creative editing (meaning I think the kids were asked point blank what they thought and to be honest about it) with a nice little a smash cut to the chefs…

You may love cauliflower. I love cauliflower but a pizza crust made out of cauliflower is a hard sell for a lot of people

That’s Top Chef for you: going from a stupid gimmick in the Quickfire to a very poignant elimination challenge. Another reason to hate that Quickfire challenge: after Curtis talks up how great the junior chefs are on his show, I had expected they would show up as guest judges (I suppose it might be a contract issue or…

I did enjoy the camera cuts back to Brother laughing hysterically every time one of the kids ripped on a contestants dish.

Jenn Carroll, in that photo, looks like she’d rather be anywhere else in the world but there in that kitchen.

that Quickfire was the worst. And I don’t get it - kids of chefs are supposed to be food experts now? My brother is a successful studio guitarist... but I’m the last person you want walking in and critiquing guitar playing of people.