There's nothing wrong with ripping into music you don't like. If you don't like Ani's music, that's fine, lots of people don't. My point is that they don't hate the music, they hate her, and usually the reasons given have nothing to do with her music.

I don't know what "angry music" means. She has a few songs that I guess are angry, a lot of songs that aren't. She has, like, different emotions which are expressed in, like, different songs.

I actually prefer her new output to her 90s stuff. Yes, some of the whole righteous anger has slipped away, so if you liked that then I could see how the new mellow, accepting Ani might not work for you. But I think her songwriting has actually gotten better, if anything. Songs like "Landing Gear", "Hypnotized", "Half…

Ani DiFranco is a talented female songwriter, and never claimed to be more than that.

If this show means less or no Ben Schwartz on Parks & Rec, then it is awful no matter how good it gets.

This reminds me of a funny meta joke they did, where they made fun of their constant "shooting through something that isn't actually clear but making it clear for the purpose of this shot" technique by doing it with a frying pan and then cutting to reveal that the frying pan is actually a transparent frying pan.

It really is the most boring podcast I've ever heard. Even the episodes the AV Club has recommended have been terrible, and I have no idea which employee of this website likes this dull, badly researched shit.

It's true that boring guests can make for a less than amazing (but still listenable) episode, but good guests make it the most entertaining podcast out there. Certainly more entertaining than the Nerdist, which is dull even with good guests.

When I got towards the end of the list and Judge John Hodgman still hadn't appeared, I thought "oh, apparently it's #1. That makes sense." But only is it not on the best-of list, it's not even on any of the ballots? What?

Also, I feel like I should mention that after watching every episode, my girlfriend and I immediately would come here and read your recaps together. It just wouldn't have been the same show without them.

Kymia was my pick from the start to win, as she genuinely seemed the only one talented enough to deserve it.

I really don't understand your point…it's not a fake name. It's this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…. It may be transliterated incorrectly, but it's not just a made-up faux-Chinese name.

But that's my point…it's not a weird fake name. It's the name of a real person (fair point that it was changed from Ren to Chen, but as you yourself said, you're dealing with the English translation of a French transliteration, which it's hard to blame on Herge).

Chang Chong-Chen was based on a real person, whose name was…wait for it…Chang Chong-Chen (Zhāng Zhòngrén, actually).

I believe you're thinking of Seven Crystal Balls (it's the cover image).

It's also nice to see that even after all these years, and after Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris's careers have moved on in a big way, all the cast members are still able and willing to sell the hell out of every joke. There's nothing half-assed or tired about any of their performances.

After two mediocre seasons and a season premiere I wasn't wild about, How I Met Your Mother has actually bounced back in a big way. I thought "The Ducky Tie", "Disaster Averted", and "Symphony of Illumination" all stood up among the best episodes they've done, and the rest were pretty strong too.

HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH SIMON DE PURY?

haha I forgot that horrible people are retroactively accorded respect just because they do the thing that every human being ever has done.

Why Christopher Hitchens Isn't Funny (it's because he's dead)