At the very least, our governor has indicated that he has the littlest bit of common sense and reason and vetoed the Bible measure. Hopefully he keeps that veto pen ready to go. He has shown in the past that he is willing to crack down on the nutty state legislature with the "guns in the capitol building" nonsense.

It's definitely a part of the narrative that the Republicans — who loudly and constantly insist that their will is being subjugated and that the "common people" deserve a voice in governance — shut down rational, progressive local government initiatives to get their way. Just goes to show you how crooked they are.

Yeah, exactly. So many issues in this country can be boiled down to issues of class / wealth disparity, but its in the interests of the upper strata to cast those issues as race issues. So that white people who are struggling don't think to look at black people who are struggling and go "Hey . . . we're not so…

That's why I feel like our worst President was Andrew Johnson: completely squandering the opportunity that Reconstruction presented. Lots of Lincoln's genius and hard work went completely to pot and large swaths of the South turned into disaster areas; not to mention race relations being preemptively set back.

While I don't think Tennessee counts as "the deep south." Plus, last time the South seceded, Tennessee had one foot out of the water the whole time. Last to go in, first one to leave.

Yup.

I'm not as down on the concept as you are but I think you've got a good point. It's not exactly hard-hitting journalism to mock someone to their face that's too stupid to double-check which show they're going to appear on. Of course, this stuff isn't really supposed to be hard-hitting journalism. But I'd say that it…

Speaking as a citizen of Tennessee I can say that this does in fact happen fairly often.

I was about to say — "current" is kind of a stretch when it's not exactly a "new" policy.

Whatever. Somebody else brought her up in a relevant context and I was saying why I thought she was equivalent in stature to a lead character. I'm not unaware of the casting aspects. I over-generalized and that was hasty but I really feel like this is nitpicking on a point that's adjacent to the crux of the sentiment.

"strap yourself in and scream for a minute or so"? That's what I tell everyone I have sex with!

They brought it up here on the AV Club when he shut down his studio.

It's the second most indulgent thing he's ever written, beyond those books were he brought Kirk back to life.

I've never experienced a bigger rush of depressed emotions upon booting up a game then when starting my pre-ordered Mass Effect 3 save file and being greeted with a message that my character could not be recovered. It was though, on reflection, a nice prep course on the disappointment to come.

Eh, I think it's a pretty arbitrary thing. It's not a matter of who the "protagonist" is. In the early years of The Walking Dead, the number of people who cared about Darryl was far higher than who cared about Rick et al. From an audience perspective, that makes it effectively equivalent for me. I'm not talking about…

ABC can just go ahead and give Shonda Rhimes another timeslot.

Does Solace really count as a Quantum?

*this has been your yearly reminder that "The Spirit" was a movie that existed.

She wasn't a lead but (as I've seen, at least) most people who watched the 100 watched it for the Clexa pairing so she's basically equivalent to a lead.

Their contracts were both up after Thor: Ragnarok. They had to be replaced with Benjamin Bratt and Darryl Strawberry.