Off to the comments section on the Affluenza article I go! Stay strong, you're fighting a noble cause.

Good to know, thanks! I like that line.

I can feel them on the paragraph quoted; it is always depressing when something revolutionary and principled becomes a commercial product. But it feels a bit assholish to criticise people who've just got out of a Siberian prison for being too focused on prison reform. If I'd been in there, it would probably be…

Tom Sizemore says that he was wrong about Elizabeth Hurley fornicating it withPresident Clinton, and that what had actually happened was that he was drunk.

He's the textbook equivalent of failing upwards, isn't he? I was puzzled when he brought out those (clearly edited after the fact to make him look better) diaries after he was sacked from the Mirror, because who's going to want to read the life story of someone who is primarily famous for insider share-dealing,…

Oh, I'm pretty sure it's canon that the devil is gay:

I love how this has become a "favourite blasts" thread. Two of my favourites from The Guardian: Alexis Petridis on Vincent Gallo's solo album...

It's clearly Madeline. She's trying to throw us off the trail with this article.

Her script reader seems to be doing a hell of a job steering her towards the best roles. Maybe they could diversify? Colin Farrell isn't blind as far as I know, but he sure as hell needs someone to read the scripts he's interested in beforehand.

That's appalling, although I am weirdly impressed that he did a sting on corrupt Wall Street traders as well. You'd have thought joining in on the progressive pogrom against our benevolent masters would have disqualified him from the Republican party.

"Tonight on NBC! Joe tries to stop John nagging him by cancelling the filibuster, but John has tabled a motion to cut off funding - to Joe's wallet! Can Barack sort it out before the flatmates hit a debt ceiling?"

It's true! It's a nightmare for all the alligators living down there.

And he lost his job because that's what he was doing. David Vitter proves that conservatives can ignore any amount of hookers if you're the right kind of reactionary, worker-crushing, woman-hating scumbag.

The Bible lists a whole bunch of things in which we as humans shouldn't do, but for some reason homosexuality is always the most controversial.

I love this bit. You can just see him starting to corpse...

In fairness, it's much easier to be a fully actualised sexual being with a very natural, giving relationship with their G-spot if you have literally nothing else that's more urgent to do with your time.

Would recommend! It tells a difficult story in a way that's warm and charming without short-selling any of the pain at its centre. And Dench and Coogan make a wonderfully unlikely screen pairing.

That movie was No Country for Old Men. Unless it was Skyfall. Or it could have been The Counsellor.

June Squibb was brilliant. I think Sally Hawkins should get a bit more love too, she was brilliant in Blue Jasmine.

I was hoping Adele Exarchapolous would get in there as a wild card. I forgot Meryl Streep did something this year which no-one really liked but, eh, it's Meryl Streep.