Could you say it was all a Blur?

I think Wilco is in the right here, but I also know what you mean about bands playing in Russia, and performing in protest, because that's still one of the venues allowed for that. You get a couple of hours of being with like-minded folk with good music. As an added bonus, the people keeping count are actually going…

Part of the problem is the DNC and liberal action groups need to start actually fucking contesting races in states like these. After the backlash in 2010 there hasn't been any substantial effort to come out of their comfy bicoastal hidey-hole.

How so? There was no electoral mandate for this bill. The groups that sponsored the bill aren't grassroot organizations, but national PAC-style special interest groups trying to get a pilot bill, such as this, passed. Likewise, their funding is at a national level that exploits conservative voters in liberal states.…

Apparently Dad Rock means 20 minutes of pure feedback to simulate a bad migraine. Well, that might be my dad but there's no way he's going to listen to that.

Stone Mountain, Georgia.

a comment like this should have avoided the word 'sanctimony' at all costs. Indiana is being actively regressive, and this is actually the second step in the process. The first step was when Indiana stripped away workers' rights. This is another act to marginalize anyone who isn't a 'job creator.' Kids at the public…

I'm going to cut (your fun) idea short at the first sentence. Don realizes he needs to change. He goes to AA and gets up and says 'Hi my name is Dick Whitman and I'm an alcoholic.' Offscreen we hear the people responding 'Hi Dick' and we fade to black.

Every episode her first scenes always open the same way—speaking on Bishop's behalf or speaking to Bishop for FAL. That's not a character, that's a mouthpiece.

It probably doesn't speak well of a drama (even as it serves as a microcosm of the season) that the narrative revolves entirely around not doing anything, not even committing to do anything. The gifts symbolically reinforced this. I think this was a cry for help from the writers' room. After a couple of years of…

Dawes and Wye Oak are completely different classes; don't tie them together.

Frankie just lets the group's weirdness roll off her back. Elroy is just trying to take it all in.

Hitchhiker started as a BBC radio series that suddenly became ridiculously popular, so he was forced to continue that series. The original radio series has plotting that makes Monty Python look coherent. He tried to give the books some actual structure, but he was still working with some scattershot material. It's…

Arianism isn't at all minor. You also missed an important point in that many of the people in power who identified as Christian were also Arian.

In my experience at a "Public Ivy" in a "right to work" state (double barf), I can say that the standards and expectations are still there, but the means aren't.

Anderson attracts a similar crowd (or even the exact same crowd), but he's so much more economical, so that in terms of structure and mise en scene he's closer to Edgar Wright than anyone of their imitators.

She has more dates in the southwest than on the east coast.

You can pretty much just drop in on tonight's episodes. There's some good work with Carlos from other episodes but this was the first one that really made good use of Bamford and her Bamfordocity.

With my brothers and cousins lists are how we catch up with each other. It fills gaps, challenges, teases and starts more critical conversations. My family is notorious for having a unique conversation for every person present, and these conversations are certainly not exceptions. They also help to develop a nerdy…

Stalin has disappeared from Russia.