That speech both elated me and, upon reflection, profoundly depressed me.

Holy fuck.  Hot holy fuck.  A big steaming pile of hot holy fuck.

I'll barely allow Briscoe & Green, but Briscoe & Curtis and Briscoe & Logan are really what I had in mind.

I would've plotzed.

Best episode of the season, by a long-shot.  Hilarious, and got the rhythms and tics of L&O down really well.  I like it when this show leaves aside its (in my not-especially-popular-around-here opinion) awkward efforts at character development, and just does really smart, pop-culturally savvy comedy.  I've liked the…

Yeah, that was awesome.

That's easily the fourth weirdest Laibach video I've ever seen.

I never understood why people didn't like it, honestly.  But then again, I'm constitutionally incapable of not loving Dr. Spaceman's Love Storm.

Yeah.  It turns out even a very mild preference for one's own race can account for some pretty serious levels of segregation in terms of where people live — it'd hardly be surprising to see the same sort of thing, albeit less starkly, in number & intensity of friendships.

I HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THIS SHOW AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT SOCIETY.

As I learned from Joel McHale on Craig Ferguson last night, Hydrox was actually the original (est. 1908), and Oreo (est. 1912) the knock-off.

Holy shit; I just got it!  The climactic scene in Justified's season 3 finale was an homage to the classic fight between Tim Robbins & Luke Wilson in the Anchorman melee!

Yeah.  And the first things we hear the professor say — about what's possibly true, necessarily true, etc. — point pretty strongly in the direction of philosophy as his discipline.  I don't think those are distinctions psychologists make much use of.

That was the USSR national anthem, I believe.

Hey, so am I the only one who, having read Freud's Ratman case history, thought the torture scene was going to go in a slightly different direction?

I'll go to my grave a prescriptivist, but it's almost certainly not ineffective to use 'less' where proper usage calls for 'fewer'.  I have yet to read a single report of flustered patrons standing near a grocery's express line, utterly flummoxed by their inability to parse the 'ten items or less' criterion.

Yeah, I've got to imagine the birthing of the shadow baby is a much bigger shock (due as much to the infrequency of overtly supernatural elements as to the fact that … well, a shadow baby just crawled out of that woman's swimsuit area) than the fact that someone else dies.

I HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THIS SHOW AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT SOCIETY.

OK, that was hilarious.  I'm sold.

"Jon? Psh. Like that would happen."
By which you mean "obviously that's what's going to happen," right?