There are no possible words in a memoir that could prove his innocence. The only possible effect his words could have would be to prove his guilt if he admitted to it.

A lot of the takes here are so weird.

Did he though? Before and after the whole thing blew up he seemed to avoid saying anything whatsoever about it, just pretending nothing happened as much as possible even afterward, and I recall people who were at his first show after the blowup saying he talked about how horrible it was for him but didn’t really seem…

The problem was the original conceit, which they stuck to adamantly, wrecked not only the finale, but also the progression of the show throughout its run.

Ah, sorry, my comment has a more accusatory tone than I intended. I meant it more as a heads-up, as I’ve seen couples do similar things which are individually nearly inconsequential but build up over time into crazy arguments and conflicts, mostly based on different perspectives, not malevolence. One person sees that…

The American people have been trained for generations to behave in ways that are short-term optimal for the few superwealthy. When faced with person X saying Y is a problem, the thought process is “Is person X in my group? If no, then focus entirely on ways to attack X’s character, irrespective of reality.” They will…

Every person in the world who looks normal: “Am I boring? Am I boring? Am I boring?”

Hm. Still not entirely sure how I feel about this episode, and with it the complete season. Overall I did enjoy it, but the careless, lazy writing really diminished what it could have been.

I don’t ride but know several people who do, and the strong consensus among them is that HD is the bike for people who don’t understand bikes. It’s a showy brand more than anything else; the actual bikes are outclassed in every metric by competitors. They are selling a baseless idea more than an actual quality product.

I’m not as disappointed, still enjoying the show, but there are definitely a lot of disappointing elements. I’m not one of those people that thinks it has to be the same as the old show - I think they handled the devolving of the Federation pretty well - but they do seem to have lost a few things in this iteration.

Already posted most of this on AVClub but thought this might be a better place for it.

With the focus on Picard dying in the same episode they show an android body prepped for human mind transfer, and another season on the way, there is, what, a 100.00% chance Picard gets put in that body, right? Which itself is very similar to what they did with THE SAME ACTOR in an X-Men movie.

I seem to recall a previous episode also went there but it was largely irrelevant to the story.

It really is sad to see Ray and Nora go, made worse by Routh’s statements that the show internally handled his exit rather poorly (which he made in a podcast with Michael Rosenbaum).

But there’s no really valid reason to be saying that. We know what to do, they’re doing it, albeit late - actually treating the virus seriously. You positioning this as an unknown the writer is failing to answer makes no sense, and it just about distraction.

The point is that when Obama was in charge, Trump had many criticisms, yet when Trump is in charge, he does those same things or worse. Who knows how many people died due to the delayed reaction while Trump was saying the concern over the virus was a political attack on him - his narcissism and lack of intelligence…

After the election I didn’t understand why so many people voted for such a ridiculously horrible choice, and at first I had the same generalizations. But I read an article that painted a more nuanced picture. There are wide swaths of people, generally those in rural areas, who have been effectively pushed to the…

I remember seeing him being interviewed years ago, he was talking about how safety for Americans had been getting worse, and the interviewer responded that actually the data showed the opposite - that overall safety had been increasing for years. His condescending response was that it didn’t matter that Americans were…

At first I thought that Biden himself proved rather strongly how irrelevant a VP is (seriously, what did he actually do besides smile for pictures and leech off Obama’s popularity), but given that at the best of times he looks like a breeze may break him in half and that he can’t seem to handle even the slightest…

Weird that you left out those who voted for Trump, who would seem to be the most to blame.