Game wardens are like Grey Wardens, they have to infect themselves in order to sense their enemy.

Cyndi Lauper didn’t murder anyone (that we know of), it was Lillian, who accidentally killed a Russian prostitute back in the episode where she was disposing of Artie’s ashes.  Lauper just fled from the police after being framed.

I would counter that “everyone doing weird things while spinning their wheels plotwise” is pretty typical for both this show and Tina Fey shows in general, and is not necessarily a problem. The problem for me was that Fey stepped away from being as actively involved in Seasons 3 and 4, which meant that the show was a…

If it’s set in Chicago, then obviously Norm should be a regular character???!

I’m not sure whether I’m missing the joke or not, but there actually was a spin-off called The Tortellis. It was about Nick and Loretta living in Las Vegas, and it lasted one season before getting cancelled.

This lady sounds pretty great, it’s too bad she’s working for a total empty suit like Castro.  I hope she runs for something herself after this!

But I think many socialists would also describe socialism in contractual terms.  It’s just happening at the level of the entire society (a social contract) rather than the level of one person.  Under socialism, people would agree to give up their rights to do certain things (like get obscenely wealthy or privately own…

The worst thing about Nestle is, in the 1970s and 1980s, they spent a lot of money in developing countries, pushing public health agencies, hospitals, and new mothers to stop breastfeeding and start using formula (which was made by Nestle). This led to millions of deaths from malnutrition (because the formula was…

Luke Cage is great, and has multiple good performances by women of color (one of which, Alfre Woodard, is possibly one of the all-time great supervillain performances). Also, Iron Fist is... not great, but the best part of it is the multiple good performances by women of color.

Apparently, despite telling people he’s from Atlanta and being a visible part of the city’s rap community (he appeared just last week alongside T.I., Migos, and Ludacris at a pre-Super Bowl event), 21 Savage is actually from the United Kingdom.

Man, has any major director been coasting of a single triumph for longer than Marshall? Chicago is pretty good, but that is basically his only film that’s worth revisiting. The fact that he’s still getting to direct musicals on account of that, despite the subsequent ones being adequate at best (and with most of their…

Steve Forbes was born a ball of fingers.  He had the best plastic surgeons money could buy, but you can still tell.

I have to imagine that the goth wedding itself would be a lot better in Jessica Jones’ world though, since there’s magic that lets you literally have the undead in attendance.

Cersei, Jaime, Joffrey’s corpse

<blockquote>The force of the yak’s stampede knocks back the Sleeping Veldar but also clears out the water surrounding Jake, revealing the wedding ring he tossed aside. By putting the ring back on, Jake regains his strength while also triggering a new stage in Murder Falcon’s evolution, giving him new mechanical wings…

But anyway yeah, this is a good conversation. And I feel like in a meta sense, it kind of demonstrates the difference between “somebody honestly trying to reason their way to the truth” (like you and me, and also I think the other person you’re debating with) and “somebody who just doesn’t like Muslims and wants to…

I guess my main argument with you then is, I don’t get *why* racism has to have an intent component. I mean, you say “justice requires it” but in an actual legal sense, that’s not true a lot of the time. Negligence doesn’t have to have intent, and neither does strict liability. It doesn’t matter whether the grocery…

This is a very good essay along the lines of your comment.  I mean, it’s about sexual predators (which is way worse than what Hart did), but I think a lot of the same reasoning applies to how and when we as a society should deal with stuff like this.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/can-penitent-sexual-predators-e…

I don’t know if this guy actually saw Muslims celebrating. I don’t know if he’s anti-Muslim. But let’s stop pretending that some people can’t be both terrible human beings AND Muslims. Same as any other religious groups, races, cultures, whatever.