I've been having some of the same thoughts, especially about the characters getting dumber. I just went back and chose a random ep from season 3 ("Debate"), and three minutes in it's conclusive: everyone is much, much dumber today. Heck, MIKE got a zinger off at DAN's expense in those three minutes. That would be…

The blade also had no blood on it!

See: https://thenib.com/radical-…

Also keychain.
I have had one on my keychain for like 6 months, and the plastic is starting to snap. Would spring for metal next time.

"Please. She couldn't even pass the DC bar exam. She got the Senate seat by playing the wounded wife act and appealing to all the NY housewives who hate their husbands. She got State because Obama didn't want her sabotaging him in the Senate. Had she not mouth-polished the helmet of the right guy in law school, at…

I don't think you're missing much.

DNF

I agree with your harsh judgment of Juliana's actions. I wish that Abendsen had given her a hard time.

Am I the only one who hears the spoken dialogue in this poem in Homer Simpson's voice?
"Take thy BEAK from OUT my HEART…"

If - IF - you are 1) masochistic and 2) curious enough to want to check out these fash-tards as humans instead of Twitter/Reddit handles: the neoreactionaries (alt-right "intellectuals," basically, although with anything this nerdy the terminology and taxonomy gets very complicated/controversial) have a podcast called…

There's also an ad for the "cookie" product from "White Christmas!"

"What I'm getting at is that this is a form of doc ripe for parody and Cambodia is the safest source material to make the points while still being very funny. "
Totally agree. I'm a bit of a Spalding Gray devotee, and I lurved this episode's spot-on parody of the subgenre he milked this part of his living from.

I actually respect the reviewer's criticism of Gray's white-privileged take on things - echoed (kinda) by RevengeofNateSilver.

I loved Hader's impression. It was pretty much pitch-perfect.

It seemed to me that Weiss had a d'oh moment on that during the summation - she mentions the number of wounds and suddenly loses her train of thought.

I'll be that guy: he's almost certainly smoking heroin/some other opiate.
That's not what smoking crack looks like, and you don't do it to chill out and relax.

After all the terrible shit that happens in that song, I love the little coda where he wakes up in a bed somewhere:
"This is the place where time reverses
And dead men talk to all the pretty nurses"
The man knew how to crack a joke.

"I do find it weird … that [preferring the movie is] put out there as if that's the common cultural assumption, despite the book's Pulitzer and general renown."

I have no memory of writing that, which makes it something other than tooting my own horn when I say it was a pretty decent fanfic.

(My high school German teacher had a tooth pulled by a Soviet-trained dentist back in the seventies. From her description, this storyline has way more gross out potential than the suitcase trick.)