Andrew in CA

Lagavulin 16 is the pinnacle for me. I also enjoy Talisker 12 yr. Laphroaig is a great drinking scotch: won't cost you an arm and a leg and tastes great, but not so great you feel you need to break it out only for the special occasions.

Good riddance. He's a dip***t New Jersey fan, to boot.

What the hell does milk toast mean?

The behavior was pretty bad for me in 338 as well... however, I think it has more to do with how bad the team played (coupled with the horribly obnoxious Jets fans) that created such a terrible environment. It seems to me if the Bills are kicking ass, or the game is tight, people behave better because they're into the game. In this one, the fans were out of it pretty quick because the team was playing like it was 2010, so they just turned their anger on anyone in sight wearing green, or anyone that gave them a dirty look.

No, I only fly out for the Bills-Jets game.

Flying in from Southern California. I haven't missed a Bills-Jets game at the Ralph in 9 years.

I agree that TE should be a target position in the offseason. Upgrading the pass-rush is priority #1, but I think a quality TE should be a focus. Using a great TE and Nelson in the slot would give Fitz two perfect targets in the middle of the field, for 5-10 yard passes.

Finally, a little stability and confidence at the QB position. I hope this comes through and Stevie and Freddy are next.

I agree that a pass rusher (DE or OLB) is the top priority, but I think a stud TE would be worth a 1st or 2nd as well, if one's available.

I voted for Fitz. Bad playcall by Gailey, I think you run the ball in that situation, especially given how the Bills had the Giants on their backs at that point (and running the clock, of course), so Gailey's fault for calling the play in the first place. However, given some stroke of luck, Stevie was open enough to make that a probable TD had Fitz thrown it 3 yards farther, so it's Fitz's fault because the play, though a bad playcall in the first place, would have been successful (or not an INT) but for Fitz's underthrow.

I like all the ones you listed, but Racer 5 is one of my all-time favorites. Great call. I also enjoy Magic Hat's hI.P.A. (which I can't find out West) and Maui Brewing Co's Big Swell IPA (which is kinda pricey, but worth it if you feel like splurging). Maui Brewing Co also makes a fantastic Coconut Porter. I don't usually like fruit infused beers, but this one has only a tiny hint of coconut, which blends really well with a great porter taste.

Funny how people from Maine and New Hampshire are bashing Albany...

I'm sorry, I should've been clearer: Seek therapy for your strange, sad anti-Albany campaign that you've been staging here for the last few years. I'm worried about you, champ!

Seek therapy.

Let's not make this about Albany... let's make it about the lazy, bull **** journalism that sportswriters at Albany's local paper have been churning out for as long as I can remember. I emailed the editor with my displeasure.

James Polk

It was mentioned on the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast, a weekly podcast run by Vince Gilligan (creator and showrunner) and Kelly Dixon (editor). It's put out every week following an episode's airing, and they usually have the writer and/or director of the episode, plus an actor or two, on the podcast to discuss all aspects of the previous episode. If you have the time, it's a must-listen for fans. In last week's episode, Kelly asked Gilligan if Gus was gay, based on the flashback scene. Gilligan said he wanted the audience to interpret the scene for themselves, and wouldn't say either way whether Gus was in fact gay or not. And I agree with you, every episode has finished on a nail-biting scene recently, and Sunday's was the most intense. A part of me actually thought Walt was going to kill Jesse in that scene.

That wasn't my first interpretation, actually, but I definitely can see how that could be a possibility after watching it again. My first reaction was, "that's exactly what Walt would do if they killed Jesse in front of him." They were mirroring the Walt-Jesse relationship so closely with Gus and Max in that scene, I thought, if anything, they're foreshadowing Jesse's fate. I think it will be one of those things they just leave open for interpretation-- kind of like what transpired between Walt and his previous career as a chemist with the pharmaceutical company, and how he lost his girlfriend etc. We can surmise, but we may never actually get a scene spelling it out for us.

Thanks, I just finished listening to it.

For some reason my iTunes isn't downloading this week's insider podcast-- is there another place to download it that you know of?

Are you saying voting third-party is per se throwing your vote away, or voting for a candidate you don't believe in is throwing your vote away, regardless of party?

I loved Walt's reaction to the music video Hank showed, especially juxtaposed with Walt Jr's and Hank's reactions.

I disagree with the above. If you think about how Walt was acting in season 3 as compared to the first 2 seasons, he was a shell of the man he was in those first two seasons. In other words, in the first two seasons, we watched him morph into 'Heisenberg', meth lord and all around bad-ass, who was living out something that didn't even come close to his previous life. In season 3, he does a 180 (until the last 2 episodes) and starts trying to become Walter White again, just trying to rekindle some semblance of normal life so he could be back with his family. However, we clearly saw in seasons 1 and 2 that he really enjoyed being Heisenberg-- it brought excitement into his life and made him feel alive. I saw the overreaction to the cop as Walt boiling over because of this tension between what he wants on the one hand (being with his family) and how he wants to act on the other (ie, to be bad-ass Heisenberg)-- this is constantly just under the surface throughout season 3, and manifests itself in those last 2 episodes. So, the overreaction to the cop is just misdirected hostility, essentially. Walt is tense as hell-- his wife hates him, he wants to be with his family, he's trying to stop cooking even though deep down he loves it, etc. So, when this cop comes along and issues him a ticket for a cracked windshield-- just after it was damaged by the airplane disaster, as Walt tried to explain to the cop (ie, Walt believes the cop is being unreasonable by not understanding the extenuating circumstances)-- it's the straw that broke the camel's back. He just couldn't take any more BS, so he lashed out in an unreasonable way. All of that is a roundabout way of saying, I don't think the scene was for comic relief, but rather a realistic expression of how we often misdirect our simmering anger. In that sense, I thought the scene was very true to life.

Judges make law almost as much as legislators do. Title VII Employment Discrimination doctrine is almost entirely judge-made law, just as an example off the top of my head. It's pretty clear that Congress doesn't want to touch this issue right now, so why not let the States attempt to sort it out? I think you're putting too high a standard on lawmakers if you demand perfection (ie, a law so well-written it's bullet-proof), especially on an issue as divisive as gay marriage.

I agree with your assessment totally, Buftex (I won't quote it to spare anyone the spoilers). I actually did give up 4 episodes in, and checked back in last week after reading about the plot in the interim. Well, after watching the finale, I'm glad I did not waste those other 8 or so hours watching these writers spin their wheels. I'll read about it on Wikipedia or something from now on, rather than drain anymore time trying to follow this garbage on TV. And yes-- Breaking Bad returns in under a month, and I cannot wait! I just finished rewatching season 3, and I forgot how intense those last 2 episodes were. I can't wait to see what happens now!