So, in this estimation, if your family has lived in America for a while, even if all 16 of your great-great-grandparents were born in Ireland, you stop counting as Irish…and yet calling someone an "Irish XYZ" is also racist?

Well, Massholes are, generally, working-class Irish.

Eh…is it racist to call someone a Masshole?

And he doesn't have to co-star with any more monkeys, either!

Nope. I meant The Good Guys, with Bradley Whitford as a loose cannon stuck in the 70s and Colin Hanks as his long-suffering partner.

Fair enough.

And…it seems deeply silly to say that Slate (a site that would rather look smart and "conscious" while saying stupid shit than actually produce intelligent and insightful analysis of any topic) is "100% correct" about a show you've never seen, when Gwen loves it and both Sepinwall and Todd have said the pilot's very…

All the complaints about how bad it is, solely based on the trailer, are answering one of the great questions of my life:

Of course, one of Slate's lead TV writers went on an extended tangent in a review of "We Need to Talk About Sex" claiming that when Coach tells Julie "I don't want to see you get hurt," he's talking about rape, and not the risk and complication that sex can bring to a relationship.

Of course, that's pretty much the premise of Treme, which was wonderful…

On the other hand, the Marvel revolution came from the dialogue, which Lee was solely responsible for.

…the Marvel Method was a way for him to crank out three times as many issues per month as people do today.

Which?

…did they own that work?

They've still got a smoking bar there.

Nothing's more milquetoast than Drake.

Yeah, exactly. The level of ownership they gave Moore and Gibbons over Watchmen was unprecedented at the time…and immediately precipitated another leap forward, because it wasn't nearly enough.

…it was absolutely work for hire. Everything at DC pre-Vertigo was work for hire. DC happened to give Gibbons and Moore an (at the time) extraordinary deal in terms of regaining rights to the characters. That deal didn't end up coming out in Moore's favor.

People who like good writers and artists making good comics?

I don't like Snyder's Batman because he essentially rehashes all of Morrison's plot points…within five years of their occurrence. Also, because it's treated like the second coming of Christ by way too many people, when it's a massive step down from his work on Detective Comics.