Yeah, when I was a kid, here in Oregon we had a ballot measure to write official disapproval of homosexuality into our state constitution. (Measure 9. It lost 56/43, which is much narrower than it would be today.) My dad voted against it and generally despised the local fundies who sponsored it, but I remember him…

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They didn't say "hypothetically speaking, as a murderous transphobe", though. You need that for your "former junkie" comparison to work.

That would actually be an interesting plot development, but on TV the only reason people get divorced is because someone cheated or because someone turned out to be secretly gay (and cheated).

Yeah, agreed. Same with James and Remini in King of Queens — he's 5 years older than her, and tons of women who look like that are married to guys who look like that. He's not super fat and he has a pretty compact build. I haven't watched this show, but on King of Queens they were pretty well-matched personality-wise,…

Literally just you mentioning the greasy guy made me crack up. That movie has some amazing "EWWWWW"s from Joel and the bots. They really tore into that movie and it deserved it.

Eye Creatures is a classic. I'm fond of Fire Maidens (it has one of my favorite "I miss the Earth" moments from Joel). Terror From The Year 5000 has really funny riffs about one of the main characters' oiliness. The other ones are hit and miss for me. Some people really love the Godzilla episodes though.

Danger: Diabolik is actually a pretty decent movie if you're into that kind of thing. It's in the small rarified category of MST3K episodes where the movie itself would be entertaining to watch by itself.

See also the revived Futurama. I remember people being upset about it doing topical jokes about Susan Boyle and iPhones and the like, as if the original hadn't done an entire episode riffing on Napster.

Food snobbery is awful. Food snobbery about cheap, everyday food is somehow even worse. It's rare that the people who actually originated and regularly consume these foods have the same kind of strict rules about what ingredients are or aren't permitted in a given dish.

Remember teleprompters?

The deep irony in that anecdote is that Hungary has a far-right authoritarian government right now that is busy dismantling their democratic institutions. He might be going from the frying pan into the fire.

Well, for the vast majority of Bajoran history they didn't know about the wormhole and thus wouldn't have known they had a physical location. Even after it's discovered, it's clear that the Bajorans don't accept the concept that the Prophets are "wormhole aliens", merely that the wormhole is a kind of gate to the…

Riker said that in early TNG, but there's plenty of references to humans eating animals in both earlier and later Trek, even in TNG. It's one of the numerous utopian details in TNG's first season that the writers swept under the rug as soon as they possibly could.

This also:

He's said that, although his underlings quickly denied it.

(I mentioned it, but I want to make super clear I am not a law-talking guy, just someone who read a lot about defamation law in the past.)

Their first album was pretty good actually

Priebus is a public figure, which makes defamation extremely hard to prove. But he might actually have a case based on my understanding (IANAL) — public figures have to prove "actual malice", which means that the person making the false claim knew it was false or showed "reckless disregard" for whether it was true or…

Oh, that sounds worthwhile. It kind of reminds me of the Japanese method of making iced coffee — pour-over, double strength, directly over ice.