I'm finding it less and less funny.  This episode was funnier than "Miami," which I thought had a severe paucity of laughs—yeah, yeah, I know it wasn't going for laughs, it was going for a "rueful chuckle," but I prefer real laughs.  I still like it, but I thought the first season was one of the funniest things I'd…

Corporations are "made of people" to be sure, but which people?  Strictly speaking, the CU ruling doesn't allow unlimited political spending by corporations, because, as you rightly point out, a corporation is literally No One, but by the people who control corporations.  This is a infinitesimally small group that is…

Corporations are "made of people" to be sure, but which people?  Strictly speaking, the CU ruling doesn't allow unlimited political spending by corporations, because, as you rightly point out, a corporation is literally No One, but by the people who control corporations.  This is a infinitesimally small group that is…

For me it was halfway through the 2nd book of David Zindell's trilogy, A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, when the protagonist said "Truly?" once too often.  Instead of "Really?" or "Are you sure?" it was always "Truly?"  Always.  Plus, the protag was a milquetoast.

For me it was halfway through the 2nd book of David Zindell's trilogy, A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, when the protagonist said "Truly?" once too often.  Instead of "Really?" or "Are you sure?" it was always "Truly?"  Always.  Plus, the protag was a milquetoast.

"a curious (in retrospect) lack of cynicism about Mark McGwire’s 70 home runs"

"a curious (in retrospect) lack of cynicism about Mark McGwire’s 70 home runs"

No, I think it is intentional.  In the last episode, a supervillain (this guy, maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… will return, "accompanied by evil duplicates of several New Gods, to seize an alien machine that is buried on Earth for centuries."  Havoc ensues, and only one man can stop the destruction.  Shot from…

No, I think it is intentional.  In the last episode, a supervillain (this guy, maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… will return, "accompanied by evil duplicates of several New Gods, to seize an alien machine that is buried on Earth for centuries."  Havoc ensues, and only one man can stop the destruction.  Shot from…

I know!  I just today got around to watching episode 2 of Girls and, man, was it terrible.  The woman-on-the-way-to-have-an-abortion-but-conveniently-has-a-miscarriage-before-she-gets-to-the-clinic plot is the very definition of "cop out," and there's no one I can bitch about it to!

I know!  I just today got around to watching episode 2 of Girls and, man, was it terrible.  The woman-on-the-way-to-have-an-abortion-but-conveniently-has-a-miscarriage-before-she-gets-to-the-clinic plot is the very definition of "cop out," and there's no one I can bitch about it to!

I know!  I just today got around to watching episode 2 of Girls and, man, was it terrible.  The woman-on-the-way-to-have-an-abortion-but-conveniently-has-a-miscarriage-before-she-gets-to-the-clinic plot is the very definition of "cop out," and there's no one I can bitch about it to!

"No, theNews Night team hasn’t gone back to report eight-year-old news"

"No, theNews Night team hasn’t gone back to report eight-year-old news"

"she all but bullied him into"
"she all but forces him to"

"she all but bullied him into"
"she all but forces him to"

I thought what he shoulda done is—because obviously everybody except Fake Plastic Trees saw the twist coming a mile away—is reveal it to have been set in the *future*.  So the girl comes out of the forest and it's like Futurama when Fry wakes up in the pilot episode: supertall towers, flying cars, aliens.  People…

I thought what he shoulda done is—because obviously everybody except Fake Plastic Trees saw the twist coming a mile away—is reveal it to have been set in the *future*.  So the girl comes out of the forest and it's like Futurama when Fry wakes up in the pilot episode: supertall towers, flying cars, aliens.  People…

*I'm* going to create a TV show where my protagonist—Matt McCall, maybe?—is a writer who wrote The Social Network, A Few Good Men, and The West Wing, except much better than they were in reality.

*I'm* going to create a TV show where my protagonist—Matt McCall, maybe?—is a writer who wrote The Social Network, A Few Good Men, and The West Wing, except much better than they were in reality.