I don’t mind that they used the “overload the computer to break the simulation” trope, but the specific question was just dumb. The question “What is the square root of negative one?” is the sort of thing that wouldn’t trip up a computer but might trip up humans, because a computer would see it as a definitional…

Dear Sir or Madam,

I feel bad that those guys didn’t get to attend the premiere. 

Yeah, Jimmy shouldering those, and then even just dragging those, means he’s a chrome-plated badass compared to Mike. That’s a really impressive feat of strength.

Wow, one full day later after this review goes up, the Kinja comments for this episode are finally appearing for me (for the record, in Windows 10, Firefox browser).

I went to see a Burt Reynolds movie, Cannonball Run 2, in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into individual discussion groups. Try to cut through some of that clever Reynolds subtext. You know: the recurrent use of Dom DeLuise as a Christ figure?

And you can read Harry Shearer’s dispatches from the civil trial at Slate.com: 

That seemed ridiculous to me at first glance, but apparently the three-year statute of limitations runs from the most recent violation. I guess one could argue that the ongoing use of the cowboy on a horse logo fits that description.

Fuck.  Now I’m going to have to start reading books like some sort of wild animal.

It was The Practice. In that case, the judge gave the witness a second chance to identify the defendant while she was sitting next to the decoy.

People reporting on federal criminal justice — whether journalists or bloggers — routinely report on the statutory maximum sentence that a defendant could hypothetically get, an oft-ridiculous figure calculated by taking all the charged crimes and adding up the maximum punishment for each. This is usually followed…

For now, feel free to debate amongst yourselves whether or not Timothy Olyphant has ever played anyone truly unlikable. (An asshole or villain? Maybe. But unlikable? Ehhh.)

I’m tempted to watch this so I can learn why anyone would still have a Rolodex on their tabletop in the year 2019.

Well, there was the Bob Dole preparing for a debate cold open, which was pretty funny. But that wasn’t really a debate sketch per se, so I take your point.

If I understand you correctly, William Hughes—and I believe I do—you are daring me to masturbate to that photograph of David Tennant. Well, sir: Challenge Accepted!

Sei fuori come un balcone, figlio di buona donna, ti venisse un colpo, a te e a tutta la palazinna tua ma guardati che sei, burino, cazzabubbolo, baciapile, non ti vogliono manco li cani, sei cosi stronzo che se pesti una merda fai scopa, li mortacci tua. Vaffanculo.

Wouldn’t it be great if the season’s twist was that Chuck Rhoades gets taken down for shoplifting candy? 

The transition could have been sudden, it could have been gradual. Neither one is logically consistent with “interconnectedness” being the reason why zero people out of the billions of people who died between 1500 and 2000 made it into The Good Place because hundreds of millions of people didn’t live “interconnected”…

Holy shit, Malkovich’s character actually pronounced taiji correctly.

Leave aside the question of whether the world was better 500 years ago. What they are also saying is that a little more than 500 years ago the world suddenly became universally interconnected to an extent that no one, not a single person on the planet, could escape the demerits of “interconnectedness” to make it into…