"Constitutional rot" seems closely related to "Democratic backsliding", which was featured in an article/video on Vox just the other day: https://www.vox.com/videos/…

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. And then the murders began.”

Is the claim wrong? If so, argue that. If not, superficial similarity to right-wing fear-mongering is besides the point.

None of which I have ever felt the slightest desire to comment on.

Hey, if I can go back to just having one account for The AV Club that isn't linked to other comments all over the fucking Internet, and that doesn't log me out anytime I stay on a page for more than twenty minutes, and that doesn't randomly fall back to a different account whenever it does spontaneously log me out,…

I don't see how one could miss the Mao clue. None of the participants getting The Bell Jar is also unimpressive (and I feel like it comes up quite regularly on Jeopardy!).

Ironically, upvoting your comment expanded that one. (Yeah, I'm not shedding any tears over the AV Club ditching Disqus.)

Pshaw!

You and I seem to have a different idea of what a personal smear is. I am not denying that liberals really, really loathed Bush. But hostility is not the same as smears.

Yeah, it seems clear enough that I'm surprised this isn't the default theory. FG was behind the spread of the Aleutian flu, and covered it up by murdering Ravi's old boss. The purpose was to create a health scare that would lead to mass inoculations. This will likely be used to spread the zombie virus on a massive…

Interesting review. As an aside, the idea of the 1:1 map is originally due to Lewis Carroll. Neil Gaiman and Steven Wright have also told variations of the same story.

There is absolutely no way Twin Peaks is going to be remastered in 16:9 (even if it were technically possible, which I doubt). It was framed for 4:3, and a director like Lynch isn't going to go along with having his compositions all messed up. When they remastered it for the "Entire Mystery" Blu-Ray, there were some…

I certainly haven't liked every part of the revived version of the show. But after the first couple of episodes, once the different storylines got moving (which to my mind they certainly are by now), one thing I don't think is that it drags.

You're not a member of the Sect of the Phoenix?

So you've changed your mind in the last week, then, after you opined, "I'll be surprised if it gets through the senate, something tells it miht be being tossed right back."

I seem to remember that it ends with Banks's character making some sort of grand statement about slut shaming and the expectations placed on women in the workplace, but yeah, that's not really the overall tenor of the movie.

I guess we have to take both that uproar and Banks calling out Spielberg more as tactics to raise awareness than as entirely balanced and fair criticisms of their particular targets.

Any (good) director is going to have their own POV and certain kinds of stories and characters they feel drawn to and able to tell well. Art is personal.

You just know that Donald (the more immature, less articulate one) would take that as a compliment, though.