Still, that reliance on efficiency could be marvelous in the right circumstances. One of the most fantastic surprises of Enter the Dragon was when Lee fought O'Hara. O'Hara had been built-up as the heavy for the first half of the movie, and watching Lee take him apart in roughly 30 seconds was thrilling.

Have you heard the story about the Anita Blake books and how self-insert fan-ficcy they became?

I'm pretty sure the title of one of the books was just The Color of Her Panties, which I understandably do not want to Google at work.

I actually re-read a bunch of Anita Blake books a couple years back. They hold up surprisingly well, at least until Laurell K Hamilton really goes off her rocker five or six books in.

28, actually. I just lived near a Half-Price Books that always had new books like that, in addition to Dragon Lance, Elminster and (when I was a little older) Anita Blake.

Man… Anthony, Aspirin, and now Stasheff? It's like I'm 10 again!

I'd love to see a recurring feature recommending specific titles, because (as you say) one of the biggest problems is in even knowing that they exist, and how to differentiate them from the actual schlock they're lumped in with.

See, I disagree - THE RAID is one of the most efficient action movies I've seen in a LONG time. Right away, it introduces you to rookie-father-to-be Rama, a pair of key police characters (the corrupt Wahyu and the experienced pro Jaka), and the villains, Tama, Andi and Mad Dog. It shows you in 20 minutes who…

That Universal Soldier clip is good, but it's not The Raid: Redemption good.

Wait, you want to get stoned and watch The Wire? David Simon approves, and I'm in!

… I don't think that actually happened.

At one point, my gradebook looked like this:

We joke, but I actually had a TA in college who graded like this.

Except the specific examples he's using ARE those rare schools that makes a lot of money. He's talking about schools like Michigan, OSU and Texas, and no one argues that those programs don't bring in a lot of money. But what about smaller schools?

Why do students, who are paying for education, deserve to receive that education from good teachers, in good facilities, with good equipment? If we seriously need to detail why school money should go to supporting academic programs first, then we, as a nation, have a serious problem.

On the one hand, sure, the accusation of racism is a serious issue in America. On the other hand, actually taking racial issues seriously and fighting AGAINST racism is largely considered a hyper-liberal PC-police move.

But not all programs do. SOME do, but it's pretty rare for college athletics.

Hey, let's be fair - sometimes the administrators don't look the other way. It'd be hard to actively cover so many of them up if they just looked the other way.

Is that… is that not how snooches work?

GODDAMMIT DONNA MELLIE IS THE BEST (AFTER OLIVIA, BUT STILL).