You definitely have to plough through a lot of regressive attitudes (aside from the treatment of women, the Professor Challenger stories have a lot of dubious racial stereotypes and one minor character who I seem to recall is only ever referred to as "the Jewess") but 'A Scandal in Bohemia' is definitely interesting…

That quote from the Daily Mail at the end is fantastic. You know full well that if it was Lord Adonis, Lord Sugar, or another Labour-supporting tycoon they wouldn't be calling for "privacy" - they'd be blasting the story out from every page with every gory detail. But a Tory? Let's give him some 'privacy', quick,…

That's part of what bothers me, though - Moffat's so keen to make the companions a mystery that he can't delve into their characters until the end of their first series. Clara's been in the show for nine episodes so far, you'd think that's easily long enough to show a bit of personality.

This Grauniad article does a good job of running down the problems with one particularly irritating episode of Sherlock: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…

It sounds like the hardest game of Fuck, Marry, Kill in living memory.

This kid is brilliant. I hope he's grown up to be an attorney or a librarian or some other eminently sensible job, unaware that his earlier youthful exuberance is being seen around the world in all its nostril-flaring glory. And then one day he finds out, and a heartwarming movie is made about it.

Admiral Akbar? Is his first name Allah, perchance? The Sharia conspiracy runs deeper than we think!

I loved it when that quote about Jay-Z came out because I tried to imagine what music Miley enjoyed listening to in private. I decided it was probably Krautrock.

I hate to do this, but you set it up so well: I've seen The Last King of Scotland, and the other pair aren't bad either.

Yeah, I've had the old "you people who are persecuting Paula Deen, if you looked into your heart you'd find you were just as prejudiced!" And I was like, okay, I've looked into my heart and I've never tried to give segregated bathrooms their own comeback special, so you're wrong, whiny Facebook racist.

"Got caught lying. Quick! Shift the goalposts!"

Gosh, I do hope SE Cupp was this offended when evangelical voters kept voting for David Vitter.

I'll take "Nicknames for Farrah Abraham's vagina" for $1000, Alex.

Just like assholes voting for Romney!

There was a lot of gossip after the elections saying Romney's team genuinely believed all that Unskewed Polls bullshit, and that's why he was in Pennsylvania so close to the polls closing; everyone thought they had the swing states sewn up, wouldn't it be the cherry on top to get the Veep's home state? I would love…

Though not really working the whole "G" part of the "MPDG" equation, mine is:

Are we sure this is a real Miranda July project? Because if someone asked me to do a parody of her work, 'Collected Boring-Ass E-Mails of Famous People I Know 2011-13' would be pretty close to it.

Which was pretty ironic, as every Rick Perry speech provides further evidence that the Department of Education has a lot left to do.

This is like some truly bizarre video art installation.