Depression and low self-esteem issues associated with a Peanuts character? I never!

Rob Paulsen (voice of Yakko and Pinky) tours with an orchestra sometimes and does the Animaniacs songs. "Nations of the World" has indeed been updated and apparently still rhymes.

That's the kind of stuff that plays better among the conspiracy-minded friends and family that I know. A lot of his main focus is very US-specific and less of a draw in Canada, but our suspicious stoners are every bit as ready to question the fluoride. I haven't heard his show for years, but I remember the…

Not a bad way of putting it. For Jones, everything ends up in the mix. It's a Grand Unified Theory of everything he happens to notice and it's always subject to revision. It's sort of like Jack Chick, though with a different focus.

It's been ages since I really checked, but I'd concur. Racism ends up being a factor like it always does simply by how it ends up infecting everything, but Jones doesn't really deal in racial stereotyping. He's more likely to call a racial activist group making a legitimate point a distraction than he is to call…

No argument there. It's a pretty impressive second career for the man. I'd like to see more of him.

At the time, the AVC crossword was pretty much exactly the right level of difficulty for me to have a fun challenge and still finish it in between calls. It was hard to find something that wasn't either incredibly easy or in the cryptic style that I've yet to learn how to do properly.

I'll be more precise and limit it to the Comics Page feature. I miss the old strips, though, and I miss the crossword more.

This was a good ending to a pretty good miniseries. It wrapped things up without being too pat (imagine how rushed it would have seemed had Barb actually died in her fourth comic strip).

The passage in the "reverted talk page" section could well be Buzzfeed article text.

I'm probably reading too much into it. Basically, Flashpoint is mostly about hostage situations and the special team that responds to them. It's pretty much as you'd expect in terms of structure; for me, the big difference was the underlying ethos and the tone that it produced. Instead of going for extreme…

Grissom's a good comparison. I always liked his understated humanism thinly veiled by clinical detachment. I miss seeing Petersen in regular things.

I always liked Flashpoint because it had a different underlying ethos from most procedurals. Colantoni is the perfect example of it. His character wasn't a teenager's dream of a grizzled badass or an unflappable master of the universe. Colantoni brought a real person on TV. He seemed like somebody I could have met…

If you consider it in its historical context, the SNES probably stacks up well against any contender as a quality gaming console. It had an incredible library for its time. I'd put it on par with the PS2, personally.

I think that's the basis of the old Homestar Runner gags about the characters from 20X6. The decade isn't specified, but you know exactly how many years they are into it.

The premise sounds a touch like Equilibrium without gun kata. I hope I'm wrong about the latter part.

Best one yet. This miniseries is getting pretty solid.

That's got to hurt. It makes perfect sense that the song would resonate so heavily with you. I think I know what you mean, albeit regarding a different subject. My little brother died pretty young (he was 25) a couple of years ago, so music is suddenly full of little landmines for me. Turns out that quite a lot of…

I agree that these are more fun when there's an idiosyncratic reason for hating the song. I appreciated John Vanderslice's Third Eye Blind story for being an interesting little anecdote.

I'm pretty neutral on the song's quality. Musically, I like the chords, neither particularly like nor dislike the melody, and have no real opinions about the structure. Lyrically, it tells the story pretty well, though it's pretty obvious where it's going from the beginning. Sentimentality doesn't bother me at all…