MWOF's is moving offsite? Oh, why don't they just formally rename the whole site "Great Job, Internet!" and be done with it, for Pete's sake!? You know what kills successful brands? When they loose focus and start neglecting their core strengths (such as… for example… I don't know… insightful *long form* writing about…

Though in fairness, Hoover never gave Nixon much of an excuse to fire him - helpfully wiretapping everyone without warrants and all. He was such an obliging director.

And a few good weeks on the talk show circuit. Maybe even a chance to guest host SNL.

First, to correct an error that Tom Delay also made with regard to HRC, the FBI does not indict people. They are an investigative agency, not a prosecutorial one. And second, not until after the 2018 elections, maybe (but probably not).

Genius!

Nixon's party didn't control Congress by a historically large margin in 1973.

I heard differently - I heard Hoover had LBJ's full support. Longtime Washington insiders and all that. Nixon actually didn't care all that much for him, but by that point they were on the same side of the culture wars, so why bother? I heard it was JFK who wanted to fire Hoover, until the latter went to RFK and…

I'm not sure what the "capital" was… He spent the last week running victory laps for the passage of a healthcare bill through one of two houses of Congress. The easier one to get things passed through, at that. No evidence has emerged that this version of the bill is any less loathed than the last one was. Unless this…

I'm starting to think we won't be able to snark our way out of this one.

Uh, read the comment again. I think you missed my point. As others below have picked up, what is striking is the lack of any common, widely shared understanding or view of what is and is not "acceptable." As in, I suspect that during the very height of Watergate, except for people on the most radical ends of the…

Since this news first broke I've glanced at the comments sections of various news sites, both ones appealing to "left leaning" readers (the New York Times, Slate), and ones with a "right" leaning slant (Fox News, The Wall Street Journal). To sum up the divergence in reactions rather crudely, the views on the former…

It doesn't look any better as a horror movie.

And by "different" I'm guessing you mean "entertaining."

Well you know, because "The Force" and stuff…

Warning: LONG essay to follow.

Ah, the days when a scandal really was a scandal - full of all sorts of juicy, tawdry little details about the lives of the beautiful, rich, and powerful. I'm surprised there's no mention here of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, of which the Nesbit affair is a significant subplot. Or at least a highly fictionalized version of…

A meat thermometer is step one of a dry, overdone roast. The problem is that, by the time the part in the center reaches the desired temp, everything else is overdone. When it comes to beef, nothing's wrong with having the center be a little under-done.

A couple of years ago while cleaning out a supply closet at my office I came across one of those old rectangular portable tape recorders - the kind about as long as a shoebox with the buttons, transport, and slide-out carrying handle on one end and the big single speaker on the other. Out of curiosity, I looked up if…

Those got snapped up a couple of years ago by the same people that bought out all of the unwanted turntables a decade or so ago. But you can still pick up a truckload of CRT TV sets at any location.

I've enjoyed the final season, but I feel it's off from the creative peak of season 4. One thing I keep coming back to in this regard is the decision to have Norman kill Sam Loomis rather than Marion Crane. Now, there are a lot of sound reasons for doing it differently from the 1960 film, and I won't go into all of…