I think you may have accidentally started referring to Emily Maw as “McDuff” in a couple places

I’m sorry for being a little off-topic, but what does that woman’s sign mean on the left-hand-side: “I work in Hollywood DUAH”? The “DUAH” is confusing the heck out of me. Is that an acronym for something?

Sorry, I don't disagree with any of that - I must have misunderstood the tone of one of your earlier comments & responded accordingly. Apologies.

Congrats on your acquittal. I am quite aware the difficulty in winning these suppression motions; all the more reason to discourage the practice when one encounters it, even among strangers on the internet. The fact that trial courts get this wrong a lot does not mean it is not a constitutional violation nor a poor…

Wow, I really hope you do not work in law enforcement in the United States. In most (perhaps all, IDK I haven't surveyed it) jurisdictions, threatening a suspect with the death penalty in order to induce a confession renders the confession involuntary, i.e., violative of the defendant's constitutional rights.…

Who's to say. There have been so many men and so many toilet seats.

I find Leslie Jones's goofiness and effervescence a breath of fresh air. That's all; sorry, no jokes just some sincere sentiments from this little chlamydia virus.

Ah, the old tea-titty gambit. A tale as old as time.

I think it's the priest. He's made some comments this season about how it seems like people ignore him or overlook him or think he's always in the church. I could see it turning out that this is just the tip of the iceberg of him having some deep-down rage that manifests as sexual violence.

I think husband is a red herring too, just because it seemed like — especially in episode 1 — he was trying to be made to look like a creeper. I think it's the priest. He seems to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder this season and the writers have kept him in the viewers' minds due to the whole Mark-freaking-out…

I think it makes sense for the character. If they were best friends, the guilt could be weighing quite heavily on Trish, especially given the support Cath showed her after the rape. My years of reading advice columns has taught me that it is not unusual for people, in real life, to feel compelled to come clean about…

I've understood it more in the sense of being a "whodunnit" storytelling tactic. If this is essentially a closed room mystery (i.e., it seems like the assailant lives in the town and thus there is a relatively small list of possible suspects), then the main way to create narrative tension is to start revealing that…

I hated their sales tactics. The last time I bought something there — and this is *why* it became my last time — the salesgirl tried to cajole me into buying some of their tea-storage-canisters because "just last week we had a woman come in who had stored her tea in a regular jar and it became FULL OF MAGGOTS!" Fuck…

Huzzah! Also, I just happened to read that Moira Buffini had been retained to write the screenplay of The Night Circus, so that is encouraging news for that adaptation not being total shit.

Freaking Katie — you ask her to make a chart and she makes a 4'x4' dry erase marvel that used up the entire precinct's office supplies. LEARN EXCEL KATIE.

American Voices: Sean Hannity Doesn't Like Satire. What do you think?
"I agree. My aunt Edith once sat in a tire and she's still stuck." - Mortimer Jones, headstone repairman

The sixth sense was really something at the time. What was especially cool was this kind of social pact that seemed to emerge of folks really not wanting to spoil the ending for those who hadn't seen it yet. It was like we all pinky swore with each other when we left the theater, or the way we've all kind of socially…

I am old enough to have been around for the original Twin Peaks run. The thing about it is that it predated the internet as we know it so the cultural conversation about it that the author alludes to was far less common than I think he's imagining. Basically you either had to hope any of your friends were watching…

Counterpoint: even as a child, I knew Markie Post's haircut was jacked

I was remembering recently that when I was a little kid, I decided I wanted to grow up to be a judge. I started wondering where I got that idea from and realized it was from watching syndicated episodes of Night Court when I got home from school. Now I'm a lawyer trying to one day become a judge and essentially owe it…