Egg? I dreamed I was old, and that pop culture websites of the future would come to view people like Joss Whedon and Dan Savage as bigots and reactionaries. Thank god it's 1998 and the avclub is still awesome.

These are good points, but phones are hard to analogize to paper, physical rooms, safes, etc., because of the massive amount of private information they contain. Including detailed records (text messages, evernote, etc.) and embarrassing stuff (pics/video) that you likely wouldn't have created or kept in any physical…

No, I'm assuming the police were already going to arrest you for something else, which the phone may contain evidence of. That seems to be the scenario this disable feature is designed for.

The cop wouldn't be speculating; he'd just be describing the movements he saw you make. If his testimony was allowed, the jury might then infer that you disabled touch i.d. because you knew access to your phone would incriminate you. Possibly similar to refusing a breathalizer test.

Question for the criminal lawyers: a cop approaches you and sees you do the 5 taps. He arrests you. You invoke your 5th-amendment rights and refuse to answer questions or unlock your phone. At your trial, can the cop testify that he saw you disable touch i.d.—inviting the jury to infer that you were trying to hide…

How can we trust anything you say now that we know you've spent 20 years learning to trick us by exploiting weaknesses in our mental architecture?

It's based on picturing the stereotypical redditor and then applying it to everyone else on a massive platform. About as valid as saying "as if that matters to anyone on the internet."

I can't get over the stupidity. Reporters don't protect their source's identity out of love; they do it because future sources won't trust them otherwise. If the Mooch fires 50 people because Lizza wouldn't give up a source, he's basically giving him free advertising, telling every leaker "Lizza is your go-to guy." …

Stone Phillips: "Is it true you put on baby oil before going out?"
The Rock: "Well just between us, The Rock will put on a little body sheen. Not baby oil. That's the wrong terminology, Stone."
Stone Phillips: "Body sheen?"
The Rock: "The Rock uses body sheen."
Stone Phillips: "Is the body sheen made by Johnson and…

What really bugs me about this is the A- grade, which is hard to square with an episode supposedly containing racism that "can’t be forgiven." It's like the review doesn't quite believe the outrage it's trying to evoke.

Captain, I cannot concur.

No, I WAS smoothly shaved.

Touché

The "woman in the red dress" scene Morpheus takes Neo through is basically a terrorist recruitment video. And it worked — we all cheered the insurgents blowing up buildings and crashing helicopters and killing people because they were part of a system of oppression even if they didn't know it. Then 9-11 happened and…

The difference to me is that the movie Watchmen probably didn't affect anyone's appreciation of the book, whereas 300 did. I read 300 years before the movie was made and really enjoyed it. It oversimplifies and distorts the history, but that's partly because it's short and partly because that's what mythology does. …

I'm no craftsman, but a nice rack always gives me functional and aesthetic wood.

I don't think either of them comes off well. I just have more empathy for Landau in this situation. He's an aging actor who no doubt wonders how he'll be remembered. Her approaching him for celebrity face time without knowing of his personal connection to the film must have stung. If she'd been a little more…

Yeah, that criticism comes close to being "This book is bad because it's about the wrong kind of people." I think there is a romanticism to The Secret History, but that romanticism was about the period in the narrator's life and the intoxicating insularity that can come from being accepted into a cult of weirdos just…

I see what you're saying, but Landau was reasonably polite about it until Kennedy said "we went in the shitter about 20 seconds ago" and showed no embarrassment for not knowing anything about the history of the movie whose premiere she was covering. I think he was basically holding MTV to an AV Club standard of pop…

Generally agree, but she had one great one last night when she interrupted Trump's bragging about his "beautiful hotel" with "Made with Chinese steel!" Excellent timing and delivery, looked like she was enjoying herself.