I see your comment, but it does say “pending approval.” I don’t get how it works either and I miss Disqus.

True story: When I was a kid, I thought Stevie Nicks was a man and Lindsey Buckingham was a woman, just based on their names, and never having seen pictures of them or (apparently) heard any pronouns used to refer to them. I think I was 14 or 15 before I read an article about them which clarified things.

I hear this was just rumours.

Is it wrong that I liked Dharma & Greg (even if I know the 2 lead actors are horrible people by all accounts)?

The Marty turn was so stupid. I always thought that the Yale characters were poorly conceived. Almost none of them seemed smart enough for Yale. So the S7 writers took the one realistically smart and driven student and made us hate him. It just underscores the show’s fascination with the idle rich, since Logan comes…

To me, the decision to find Rory a version of her own father (Amy’s got a SHIT TON of issues, y’all) meant that the only way to keep the audience from completely rebelling against him as a character, is to diminish and denigrate every other male who Rory was interested in. I believe the idea was to never give the…

I’m beginning to think that the success of Game of Thrones is starting to having a negative effect on the television industry. It seems more and more channels are dumping more modest but original shows for super expensive genre series of varying quality. Some of these I like (like Westworld) and some are just OK (Alter…

The essay she wrote about what happened, and in hindsight with knowledge of the #MeToo movement, is great. tl;dr She had some PTSD from the shitty treatment she got from media, it was an abuse of power though still wholly consensual, she should be known for far more than a bunch of punch lines:

I can’t imagine being a 22 year old intern in the white house, with an incredibly bright future and nothing but good prospects on the horizon, and then to have something like that turn your name into a punchline and be defined by something like this for the rest of your life.

I think Ryan Murphy has to express every possible thought he has as an upcoming season of whatever show he’s talking about.

Good. Leave the poor woman alone.

Meanwhile the creators of Firefly and Better Off Ted and Freaks & Geeks and Party Down and Arrested Development are going “Why couldn’t we have been on the CW?!” (or earlier, the WB). Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is so very lucky... and often endearing and wacky and awesome! But insanely lucky.

The depth of my non-understanding of what any of this shit means is profound.

How about Reefer Madness’ Jesus?

You would think that, but look up deaths at amusement parks and you will see a lot of other parks with similar things that happen that didn’t get this sort of investigation.    

Because places like Kansas have gone full force on the whole ‘gubbermint regulations are bad’ thing?

Good. Assuming all the information in the indictment is correct, this guy rushed the designers to get to market first and directed his subordinates to ignore obvious safety issues. I personally would like to see more owners/presidents/CEOs be held directly responsible in cases like this. Corporations would pay far…

“his wife was scheduled to ride Verrückt on the day the incident occurred”

Grow up. People die from colon cancer and it’s the single most preventable cancer. Screenings work. Everyone 50 years and over should do this.

I normally am not fond of stunt episodes but I like you, Manacek. Take the B+.