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By the end of this season I expect a supercut of people with various foreign accents telling the Americans they're out of their jurisdiction.

He super-smelled the high amount of soft organic garbage in the dumpster?

Grounded legal adventures? Like when Matt decided they would be lawyers who only represented innocent people?

wtf is reelz lol

Tim Burton just has to ruin whimsy for the rest of us.

Unfortunately Marvel sold the film rights to that character in the 1990s and has regretted it ever since.

The season will end with everyone realizing that Hell's Kitchen is inside a giant glass dome, which is why no one on the show is aware of the rest of New York City.

The R-rated version of Uncle Fester?

Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean.

Their legal challenge is based on technicalities about what court orders can do, not whether their side was right. Even if the court order is valid, fundamentally the FBI can't physically make an individual perform work; it can just punish them for refusing, and Apple has the clout to avoid that punishment.

When I've heard of this debate story in the past it always struck me as weird and not proving much. I can think of a few approaches to beat this position without seeming racist, but it would be incredibly difficult for a college debate team to prepare properly and going off-script would be incredibly risky, yet

Are you going to come back in two years and ask what Serial is?

One issue is that even with warrants, the process of collecting electronic data is unaccountable and rigged in the government's favor. Surveillance hasn't been a public enough issue that judges and those who appoint judges have any stake in preventing government intrusion. Companies are forbidden from disclosing that

I'm playing Psychonauts. I'm enjoying it a lot and I just got through Lungfishopolis, which was a lot of fun. Whatever happened to Rampage, anyway?

In the immortal words of Voltaire, the Sexy Evil Holy Roman Empire was neither sexy, nor evil, nor holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

That guy who they got to voice George Steinbrenner did pretty well.

Benedict Cumberbatch's casting will fool us again!

Multiple endings. But in all of them, communism is a red herring.

I've been interested in trying Far Cry 2 but I've read that among its various frustrations, the stealth is broken and enemies will spot you from far distances, which sounds like a deal-breaker. Is that as big a problem as it sounds?

Everything I know about the financial system, I learned from The Crimson Permanent Assurance.