I totally agree. Whitechapel was desperately poor; the surrounding people are going to notice an extremely well dressed gentleman walking through the streets with a cape. Such a person would have been watched as a potential robbery victim, if nothing else. It would have to be someone who blended in and was poor…

It looks like the problem is the shawl wasn't kept in police custody. But the chances Kosminski would both be an established suspect and would just happen to have slept with this specific prostitute while she was wearing the same shawl she wore the night she was killed (and she would have let him come on her shawl,…

I don't think a prostitute in 1800's London would be worried about keepin her shawl clean of jizz.

The police also stopped patrolling around the time Kosminski was institutionalized. They knew it was him and sure enough the killings abruptly stopped. This was always the theory that made the most sense. People are just disappointed because the killer being a random impoverished and mentally ill man is just not as…

Apart from the avalanche of wild speculative nonsense that the Ripper case engenders, Kosminski is actually quite an interesting suspect. One of the more convincing parts of the case against him is why Jack the Ripper suddenly stopped killing. Serial killers generally don't. The crazed, escalating nature of the…

Is it odd that the first thing I thought on seeing that shawl was that it was really lovely. Also too expensive for Catherine Eddowes to possess of course. And so the story is that it "belonged to the killer". This so called solution has so many weak links it barely amounts to anything. No provenance on the shawl.…

Bullshit. Every few years there's someone peddling an answer to this, usually when they have a book to sell. We'll never know who did it.

That was so annoying, what they did with Robin and Barney. They spent two years showing us The Redemption of Barney Stinson, and they wrapped up that storyline rather neatly only to be all "LOL OOPS they're divorced now lulz." That wasn't true to the story they'd been telling all along!

I haaaated Zoey. But I think the Marhsall's dad storyline was handled really well. I lost my mom right before my first child was born, and as tragic and awful as it was, gallows humor was a pretty important coping mechanism (especially since I couldn't get drunk— damn pregnancy rules!) I felt like those episodes…

I had only watched the first episode when I started actively wishing Ted would get hit by a taxi, so stopped right there. Looks like I dodged another Lost.

Well you know he got the kids and now he gets Robin, you know since she can't have kids.

Win Win.

Don't forget the "Mad About You," ending, where we find out the couple really weren't mad about each other, after all, from the point of view of their angry teenaged future daughter. That show was HUGE, and it dropped off the American syndication radar just about as soon as the finale aired. At least Roseanne has…

I totally agree with you except I have to defend sitcoms as an art form! There are tons of intelligent sitcoms (30 Rock, Always Sunny, Archer, Parks and Rec, Arrested Development, etc.) and some seriously challenging ones. It might not be fair to call Louie a sitcom, but the original Office and Extras are both some…

I can see that. I really liked how they handled it, though. The pocket-dialing and the voicemail were really cute, and Robin pulling all sorts of stuff out of her purse at the wake was hilarious.

Nooo! The mother was the only thing I liked about the last season of that show. I fully expected her to be a manix pixie dream girl (based on the hints they dropped about her, and the fact that she was compatible with Ted.) Instead, she was funny, believable, and - importantly - nice. By the end of that show all the…

I'm not an expert but I have two guesses that aren't mutually exclusive.

He acts like it's too much for his tiny little pea brain to handle. Misogynists are all for personal responsibility when it comes to anybody but themselves.

I don't really understand why there is "personal responsibility" involved in the catcalling discussion at all. Is he not then personally responsible for the shit that comes out of his mouth? No? Ok.

I am a fat girl and I get cat called and insulted. You cannot win.