But political comedy based explicitly on the notion of unreliability of regular sources for political information is hardly the pulpit to lecture people for following suit and listening to your sources for political information. That's exactly the 'cake and eat it too' I'm referring to.

Toothless? They're a litigious monster hiding behind tax-exempt status. Have you not read any accounts of people's escape? Separated from their families? In short, are you at all familiar with the subject matter you're speaking about?

One benefit as a Canadian is that few of us have a team that actually makes us sad when they lose or ecstatic when they win, so we can generally watch the game as a contest without any general animosity for either side - or at least one that doesn't register beyond academic - and just enjoy the game. I used to hate…

It was. It wasn't lost by the Seahawks, it was won by the Patriots defense, whose previously pick-less hero was targeted with the element of surprise for that very reason, and then ended up winning the game.

I agree. An old girlfriend got me into him, and I bought his last album, but it's hard to completely engage with. It's either ironically vulgar (the irony being the folksy delivery, which starts as a novelty and then quickly gets old), or it's just bald arrogance. That said, "Bored in the USA" is an accomplishment.

More than any other character on that show, Lois has to be the most irritating, if only for having to consistently play 'straight' in a setting where there's just no place for it. "Petah, you just pulled your ears out of your head!" You can't really deliver lines like that with any kind of believable earnestness.

I don't get the cowardice charge either. Are they at all familiar with the show's history?

Yeah, like that'll ever happen.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. They refused to lay off of Scientology even after it threatened litigation. It reminds me more of why they didn't go after Bush (the same reasoning Dave Chappelle didn't): it's too easy and there's not much you can do with it. Trump is already a parody of himself.

If it's any consolation, that girlfriend is long gone.

The specifics that I've heard were that people made *zoom zoom* lightsaber noises around him well into his college years. The experience basically ruined his adolescence.

Christensen was good in Life As A House, which sounds like a movie you only watch with your girlfriend, and is a movie you watch with your girlfriend. Apparently he's a music producer and has taken the whole thing in good humour.

Hell, Natalie Portman is an Oscar winner and at least got to hide under all that to-do in the first one. Ewan McGregor is the only person who managed under it.

Jake Lloyd really was screwed up over that. I get being bullied in grade school and highschool, but college? That's messed up.

I retract the word "just" on terms of misspeaking. (I meant more "a comedian first." etc.) I feel if you were genuinely interested in what I'm saying, you wouldn't be trying to paint me in the O'Reilly camp, which it seems like you're doing. To say it again: I like Jon Stewart.

Whose scrutiny? Yours?

Evidence? I don't disagree with what you said overall, necessarily, but having an opinion and a feeling is not subject to a subpoena, or an audit. What I said is what I remember, as an honest viewer, and I'm not charging him with a crime. Come on.

What a depressing world we live in.

But the fact that they/I/everyone did is the aftermath, right?

Thanks. I watched the whole thing along with the majority of everyone. It's hard not to miss it. I took his general behaviour to be one that zeroes back to that excuse (correct me, but I've heard him use that line many times) whenever he was pressed to account for the fact that he was doing journalism and not comedy.…