Actually, we’re engaged now. We said we wouldn’t get married until another state found the courage to PROTECT MARRIAGE. Thanks North Carolina!

What’s really funny about this is nothing

BONER JAMS ’94!

He played Chris in the UK version of Skins.

YOU’RE WELCOME (said in the voice of the computer guy played by Jimmy Fallon on SNL)

So Jesus walks into a bar, orders a water and turns it into wine. And the bartender says, JESUS CHRIST, NOT AGAIN!

Is this thing on?

That made more sense in my head.

To me, the fact that Gibson MADE The Passion of the Christ proved him to be an anti-semite more than anything in the movie. The movie was fairly representative of the New Testament (although Gibson added some details — mostly relating to the torture scenes — from non-canonical testimony by a 19th century nun who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary). My point is that the movie itself wasn’t much more “anti-semitic” than the New Testament is. It says the Jews didn’t like Jesus very much and didn’t do much of anything to prevent his execution. Believing that doesn’t make you anti-semitic.

What makes you anti-semitic is making a movie that focuses on (and exaggerates, based on the ramblings of a crazy person from the 19th century) the part of Jesus’s life that sheds the worst possible light on Jewish people. Did Mel Gibson make a movie about Jesus’s teachings? No. He made a movie about Jesus getting his ass beaten by Romans with the Jews’ blessing. He made a modern-day Passion Play, which throughout history have been used to “inspire” people to go and beat up Jews.

Gibson knew that Jews would object to his movie and that there would be a backlash against them by Christians. He stoked prejudices and inter-religion disputes. He was and is a scumbag of the highest order.

And like you said, many, many Christians defended Gibson at that time. Few of those people will defend him now. Told you so.

He’s still a portly nerd with YouTube posters in the background, but he’s not as huge a nerd as the freakout video would have one believe.

This made me miss the Entourage recaps, though.

Parade Magazine? TL; DR. I only have time in my busy life for the Marilyn Los Savant page.

I thought this was the best SNL episode in a couple years.

There were some down moments (Technology Hump, hilarious the first time, felt warmed over this time; the weird British/Prop 8 sketch was horrendous), but overall, I thought the writing and performance was on-point!

I don’t generally like Les Jeunes, but it was good this time. The Quirky sketch was fantastic. Wiig’s Bjork is an all-time classic impression and I love whenever she trots it out. And Abby Elliott, who almost never contributes, did a dead-on Zooey D, while the Michael Cera impersonation was tight as well.

The Clint Eastwood stuff was funny too.

And the Nic Cage bit was absolutely hilarious.

I don’t think Kenan Thompson was in any sketches.

Sarah is the worst. (Since Heather left.)

But Beverly has increasingly gotten on my nerves, to the point that she was #2 behind Sarah on the “who I want to lose” chart.

Like Gabe said, she’s just so oblivious. She has no self-consciousness. I hate that in people. And it’s one thing if it’s all happy-go-lucky, but she’s not — she’s passive-aggressive and narrowly focused to the point that she is inconsiderate. It’s not an accident (or racism) that nobody likes her. She does her own thing, without caring about anyone else, and then shrugs everything off with that goofy smile of hers.

All that said, Sarah still sucks a million times worse than her.

Lindsay’s fine.

Paul’s the best.

Keep grindin’ Ed!

I grew up about 20 minutes from East Haven and I’ll just say this doesn’t surprise me.