The one main thing that genuinely was terrible was the choice to pair “Hallelujah” with boning. That was just a catastrophe. I’m not sure it’s possible to pick a worse song to bone to than “Hallelujah.”

The Prestige is about Wolverine and Batman fighting each other in Victorian times and nothing can convince me differently.

called simply Y now, for some reason

It feels like it would be natural for the first season to be “Yorick and 355 travel across country,” and then the second season starts with the introduction of Dr. Mann.

I’m ALSO a lawyer, and I ALSO have to quote what other people say. (One time I had a motion in a death penalty case where the State wanted to execute an intellectually disabled guy - that was unpleasant to write because the otherwise favorable SCOTUS decisions on the subject repeatedly use the r-word.)

But with that…

Originalism isn’t intrinsically about throwing out amendments and rolling back civil liberties. That’s how it’s essentially always used today, but that’s not what it intrinsically is. For instance, back during the Warren Court Justice Hugo Black was both very liberal and an originalist. He used that position to take a…

No, he carefully picked his words to say that as a circuit judge, he would be bound by SCOTUS precedent to uphold Roe v. Wade.  But Supreme Court justices are free to ignore their own court’s precedent.  He’s no longer bound by anything other than his own sense of intellectual integrity.  Which, good luck with that!

Kagan to balance Alito

Amethyst fused with Steven without realizing he was a Diamond, so I imagine that Rose would have been able to hide that from the other Gems when and if she fused with them.

I think you have that backwards - AT&T will be charging its customers more to stream from competitors (like Netflix and Hulu), as a way of driving profits to HBO.

Synergy!

I think this is exactly right. The problem isn’t that Marvel shows have too many episodes. The problem is that they try to tie all of those episodes into one serialized plot. But superhero shows ought to be really easy to add in some standalone episodes (like Buffy did), so I don’t get why they aren’t doing that more…

I think the fundamental problem with “well-regulated capitalism” is that it’s not sustainable. Even when there’s anti-trust and other kinds of regulation as a leash, capitalism still leaves a profit for corporations and rich people. And then they reinvest that profit in lobbying to loosen those regulations, which lets…

The “blogosphere”, loosely defined as a web of independent blogs linking directly to each other, has already been gone for like a decade. Facebook ate that ecosystem and turned it into a hub-and-spokes model, where content creators compete with each other for pageviews on FB instead of mutually cooperating to drive…

Lindsay Lohan has a lot of professional success serving as some kind of brand ambassador for Erdogan’s dictatorship in Turkey.  Now a Kurdish schoolteacher who’s been in jail for two years for no real reason - that’s the guy who has career troubles!

I thought the first season of Luke Cage had really great politics, because it wasn’t precisely about how white people screw over black people. It was about how the racist system that white people originally created screws over black people. White people are gone, they all moved to the suburbs and left the system of…

In the first or second episode there’s an exchange where a henchman points a gun at Luke, and Luke is like “really?” And the henchman is like, “hey, I gotta say I tried.”

I feel like in general, if you’re a henchman and Luke Cage busts up your shit, your boss is going to be very mad.  And since your boss is probably a…

<blockquote>The only thing that happened when they renamed to ICE was they got a bigger budget and new ID cards.</blockquote>

This isn’t correct. Back in the INS days, the same agency was responsible for both immigration enforcement (targeting immigrants) and naturalization (helping immigrants). If you were a mid- or…

I’m hoping that this is all part of a deliberate story about her thinking through her actions as a cop, and deciding on a coherent approach (ideally one that doesn’t constantly violate the Constitution).

“I know who Digital Underground are, Foggy.”

I don’t think the show (or any of the characters) is saying that Luke needs to reconcile with his father, I think it’s saying that he needs to give up his anger about the situation.  That may or may not involve reconciling with his father, but primarily it’s about the way that Luke’s anger can have really bad…