Thank you! I was getting Lloyd-the-bartender vibes the whole time.

I'm not sure if Disqus will let me post a link, but there's a good article by Emma Tessler on a site called The Establishment, called "Yes, Your Dating Preferences Are Probably Racist". The stuff you describe—-just happening to be "into" one race more than another—-is, sorry, the very definition of racism. *Why* are…

Just one white guy's opinion: I think self-awareness is the whole ballgame here. You're attracted to who you're attracted to, and I don't think anyone wants you to feel bad about that - just aware of the degree to which racial stereotypes affect your attraction. That is, if you happen to think someone is hot and they…

I mean, it depends how stringently you define "racism" and where you put your bar for how much racism is okay. (I wish there were a word for "interracial relations that aren't the end of the world but also are kind of not cool" that was less loaded than "racism", so that people could talk about this kind of shit…

That was the best and most memorable joke in this vein, but they've trotted out the "Phil likes black women" thing a handful of times over the years. Though she was pretty gentle about it, I was just glad that Angie did call him out—-fetishizing racial minorities *is* a form of racism, and Phil needed to hear that.

Oh, I agree! My career path looks exactly like yours, actually. I just think that HHM is the sort of firm that probably prefers to hire people like Erin—-people who decided when they were two that they were going to work at HHM, and who got on that very narrow path of high school—>undergrad—>law…

Thanks! I assumed I had missed something. Apparently I had missed…a whole lot of things. :)

So, Kim is a fourth-year associate. I can't remember if this was addressed previously on the show, but she certainly seems to me like the kind of person who'd have gone straight from high school to college to law school to the firm—-I don't see her as the gap-year-to-backpack-around-Europe type. So that would make Kim…

The use of the DA with the vomit on him was really masterful. For me, the Kim story was edging from First World Problems territory into Clueless Entitled 1%er territory - as the DA pointed out, most lawyers would kill to be doing what Kim's doing. Relative to just the average schmuck on the street, doing doc review…

That moment jumped out at me, when they were having dinner and Jimmy said he'd memorized everyone's names in a tone that suggested that that should really impress Chuck, and Chuck kind of acknowledged that Jimmy expected him to be impressed by it without seeming to be impressed by it. It just felt like a callback to…

Albuquerque is a small enough town with a small enough legal community that if a guy got disbarred and then his face showed up on TV commercials and bus benches advertising that he was a lawyer, he'd get shut down pretty quickly. I don't think that would stop most TV shows, but BCS is surprisingly realistic when it…

They have the best words.

I was going to ask about this—-if he was somehow his mother's husband's son-in-law, that family would be even more complicated than it already seems to have been.

Since people don't mention Earl Hindman that often, I would like to take this opportunity to complain about that stupid hidden-face conceit. At the start of the series, fine, Wilson is an offscreen voice from over the fence. If that's the direction you want to go in, it's no dumber than the rest of "Home Improvement".…

This is what I've been saying from the start. Several of these characters - Shapiro, Cochran, Kardashian - were just ridiculously over-the-top people. It's not that Travolta is acting badly - it's that he's playing someone who's emoting like a bad actor.

This show is never gonna survive unless it gets a little bit crazy.

The #1 biggest misconception that I got from following shitty comedians during the trial was that Goldman was Nicole's new husband. But he's barely mentioned in this show, and according to Toobin's book, he was just some random dude who happened to be at her house.

One of the most fascinating parts of Toobin's book is the emphasis on how OJ was basically this weird, whiny, manchild who had no idea what was going on around him, probably due to serious brain damage from his football career…but how *everybody*, because of his size and his voice and his fame, misread him horribly as…

So Travolta is just playing himself?

He comes off as a pretty great guy in Toobin's book. As sock monkey says, maybe a little bit too sincere for the Trial of the Century, but a great guy.