Rooney Mara, Kate Beaton, Ana Marie Cox, Kate Bush

The Secret Agent is the Unabomber's favorite book. It's true!

Here’s what I did this weekend:

I'll state the obvious and point out that convenience store apples are generally horrible.

Things like OpenTable, which is a reservation system, has a very robust
grading system, which I prefer because you actually have to eat there to
get on the site and write the review, where with Yelp, you don’t. And
I’ve seen reviews from restaurants that aren’t even open yet on Yelp. So
they’re somewhat suspect at…

The number apparently comes from a USDA study: http://www.ers.usda.gov/med… ("In 2011, 50.1 million people lived in food-insecure households.")

Peter Bergen himself has criticized the accuracy of ZDT: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/…

I generally like Greenwald. I think, given the topics he writes about (torture, drones, government secrecy), his perpetual outrage, stridency, and moral absolutism are warranted. But his writing on ZDT has been simply awful. He literally prejudged it before seeing it (which actually would have been acceptable if he…

I wish I had time to write a post about why I dislike ZDT so much, and what I think is wrong with it. But I don't, so in lieu of that, here's a link to the single best piece I've read on the movie (and I've read a ton of them): http://thenewinquiry.com/bl…

The people criticizing the film are saying that its inaccuracies about torture—-i.e., showing information gathered from tortured detainees leading to the capture of bin Laden when the name of bin Laden's courier actually came from a detainee completely outside of the torture program—-can be seen as an apologia for…

It's not a matter of belief. It's a matter of truth and accuracy. Zero Dark Thirty shows CIA gaining valuable information from a detainee who was tortured. According to the record, this is completely inaccurate and it implies that torture was key to capturing bin Laden when, according to the record, it was not.

Thanks, I knew Johnny Rebel had some more songs that were more directly applicable, but I couldn't think of them, and didn't want to search around for them.

Yeah, I think when some people see a joke like that they instantly conjure up this image of a roomful of fratty bros high-fiving each other for calling a little girl a "cunt." And I can see how that seems pretty gross.

The Independent Spirit Awards are obviously a joke, but it was still cool that they nominated The Color Wheel for something.

I actually haven't seen any of his earlier "Wipe" stuff except a few episodes of News Wipe, so @avclub-be5dfeb671c12d7520445b9292e10d13:disqus is certainly a better judge than I.

I think almost everyone agree that Bride of Frankenstein is the superior film (though I like the original a lot, too). It's actually quite funny!

Ah, A Time for Drunken Horses, the devastating Iranian remake of Beer for My Horses.

I don't know if you're in the US or not, but Weekly Wipe tends to get posted to youtube a day or two after it airs in the UK. That's how I've been watching it. All the episodes of the new series are on there now, as is the hour-long 2012 Wipe.

Not that I condone such shit, but there's a whole subgenre of super-racist country songs about welfare, like "Welfare Cadillac" and "N***** Hatin' Me" ("You gotta be black to get a welfare check").

I really enjoy all four of these, but I'm going to go with The Chimp Sang a High and Lonely Song as my favorite.