To think there are motherfuckers in this country to whom ‘Happy holidays’ vs ‘Merry Christmas’ is the biggest political issue they have to face.

There’s nothing Evangelicals love more than a good persecution fantasy.

Look, nobody ever said that leaders have to be perfect. Except them. They said that. Like, all the time, too. But other than them, nobody said that.

The “Moral Majority” finally get the leader they deserve: a serial sexual predator, adulterer, thrice-married, draft-dodging megalomaniac coward who has admitted to never have asked god for forgiveness.

That lit up our office Slack thread for about an hour the second it was proposed. I remain stunned by just how wrong it is, and how many of my coworkers supported it.

The extra beat is unquestionably the best part of the theme song. It is perfectly timed.

The people hating on the Wire theme have to be the MOST wrong (I’m sure there’s a thread about this later).

For the record, everyone but me is wrong.

Actually, that reminds me of another theme song I hated: the third-season revamp of the Veronica Mars theme. “We Used to Be Friends” is already a deeply melancholy song; doing a slowed-down bummer remix doesn’t make it more melancholy, it just makes it obvious and annoying.

I liked the way they continuously integrated the theme song into dialog in the first season.

The second season theme, where they hold the camera on her deranged smile a beat too long, made me laugh EVERY. TIME. I would consciously attempt not to laugh, but she would always hold my gaze just long enough to break me.

BLAM!

“In the Street” by Big Star?!?!? You’re out. Just go.

They also do a new theme every season, so if you don’t like it (it sounds like you’re talking about the first season theme) you just have to wait for S2, whose theme is way better for my money.

Well, today is the day that I read that Gimme a Break, The Facts of Life and Different Strokes were brilliant and masterful.

I can’t knock the CEG theme. It may not be the perfect song qua song, but a theme song exists to set a tone and to provide a preview of what’s to come if you stick around long enough to watch the show. In both of those aspects, the CEG theme succeeds magnificently.

I liked all of the versions of Way Down in the Hole. I would find myself immediately missing the old version at the end of each series, only for the new one to grow on me.

My father served in Vietnam and was in the field in combat for 6-8 months as an artillery officer. He spent some time in Alaska before arriving in Saigon, and then some in a hospital after being gassed (under “friendly fire”) while he had pneumonia. He has about 4 stories that are “safe for kids” and would tell them…

I attended a talk by Burns last week, and he made a pretty damning allusion to the current president by discussing how Vietnam echoes today, referencing Nixon’s newly discovered treacherous efforts to undermine Vietnam piece in ‘68 to bolster his election chances. I really hope there is a hell, so Nixon can be there…

“ I feel like lengthy prison sentences are better suited to dangerous offenders”