It's still SUPER Hollywood to hear Mindy Kaling refer to herself as " a chubby brown woman.” Anyone under, what, 130 lbs?, being called chubby is just disturbing.

I kinda love that Wil Wheaton has carved out a niche for himself as "insert-genre self-important asshole". I've still got this weird idea that maybe there could be an awesome TNG movie where he's the super-powerful villain, corrupted by his time with "The Traveller". Like he's Anakin to The Traveller's Obi-Wan without…

Real quick, completely out of left-field question: I've got an original AV Club account, and also a Disquis account, and they both have the same handle, and sometimes I'm logged in as one and sometimes as the other, and how the fuck does that work? BEcause apparently I can't combine the two and sometimes it's kind of…

Agreed, that was a rough moment. For a show that's based on a comic that's based upon a pretty sick sense of humor, it was impressive how big of an emotional heft that had. As of that sentence, Jesse's a fucking villain until he proves otherwise. And yes, the show's FINALLY good. I've been waiting, and if I had to sit…

Well, yeah. Because a shitty, corrupt liberal is still usually better than a regular conservative (hasn't always been true, but more so recently). At least the shitty liberal pretends to give a shit about poor people. At least they TRY to make it look like they're not handing the keys over to the ultra-wealthy.…

To paraphrase: "Hey, we like this Obama guy. He seems reasonable, like a real President. Unlike that crazypants super-liberal crook, Clinton. I'd even vote for him, if I got the chance. Of course I won't be able to, because Clinton's a shoe-in and the whole democratic party's rigged anyways. But I'd love to vote for…

See, I actually liked BvS a hell of a lot more than Man of Steel. First off, it seemed like he made a legitimate effort to retroactively fix the problems in MoS, he even tried to give Pa Kent a little reputation-saving cameo to make him NOT the idiot who told his superpowered kid not to save a bus full of…

Eh, you can take comics seriously without being self-consciously hyper-gritty. If Silver Age comics are what seems cool when you're 8, 90's comics are what seem cool when you're an extra-angsty 14 year old.

I couldn't help but love that, "He's an Ant with the powers of . . . an Ant!"

I've responded to you once already, but I'm still baffled at how you could possibly come to that conclusion after my response. Uh, the answer is "no"? Hillary is a liberal but not the literal devil?

How many politicians have to do something before it becomes somehow uniquely unethical? Or, another question, as a private citizen, what limits should be placed on someone planning on a Presidential run? What are the rules there? What are the time-limits? What are you not allowed, ethically, to do to make money? Just…

Yeah, that's a pretty big leap. I actually think Takei's advocacy might have started after the movie. Either way, I can't imagine the filmmakers targeting that kind of thing, it'd be uncharacteristically mean for that movie.

Also, "team Clinton, who have always been moderate Republicans." That would be news to the Fox News, Limbaugh, my right-wing cousin crowd, who all think she's the Liberal Devil. Look, I didn't like Hillary in '08 because she was running for Bill Clinton's third term. Thing is, Bill didn't do that many good things, and…

"It's a pretty serious ethical problem for Clinton to receive massive payments for speeches." Okay now, that's just horseshit. Famous and politically important people get paid ridiculous sums for speeches all the damned time. Was it a politically boneheaded move to give a happy-happy speech to a giant bank after the…

"This is yet ANOTHER reason I'm glad we're getting out of this town. It's not their fault. They just have to LIVE here. But not us. Not anymore."

EH, a lot of it's the media's fault. You've got to look HARD to find reasoned analysis. Meanwhile, the horserace crap is plastered everywhere, all the time. Jesus, the 24 hour news cycle should give these news networks PLENTY of time to dig into important stuff (like how certain proposed policies are likely to affect…

Eh, I'm fine with Bernie "taking it to the convention". He's conceded in all but name, he likes the crowds, he wants to air his policies and he feels like it'll give him a stronger voice at the convention. As long as he's not out there bashing Hillary and pretending like he's going to win, more power to him.

Are you kidding? They were plastered all over everything. They had t-shirts and several websites and logos and rallies and were covered by the media incessantly. It was all swimming around with "maybe we CAN'T elect a black man in this country" coverage, and how, in the end, despite the polls, maybe Obama would lose…

She's got more passion than Noah. Most of the time, Noah seems to be there to do the job and get a laugh, but doesn't seem to really give much of a shit. To put another way, if you were at a bar and started talking to him, he wouldn't be passionately interested in talking about politics and the news media. Sure, he…

Because Fox News and right wing radio has been saying it since 1992 doesn't make it so. It's 25 years of insinuation and rumor-mill bullshit. If there was a smoking gun, actual, real evidence of corruption, somebody would've found it and published a book. It's not like there hasn't been a very lucrative branch of the…