Additionally, Muslim people can just straight-up murder folks the same as Christian Americans can. It's a pretty well-documented trait that people who consider themselves the "majority" tend to look at others of the majority who commit crimes as if there is something wrong with them, while they look at members of the…

It doesn't really matter, because just as two wrongs don't make a right, one wrong and one right also don't make a right. They could have contributed 100% of astronauts to go into space, and it wouldn't make anything better for this one boy or for the many many others like him.

Not gonna lie, if I had to sit across a desk from Conan O'Brien and talk about filming a sex scene, I would be doing all sorts of anxiety-suppressing and self-comforting behavior too.

Twilight was really big by the time the first movie was being made, but what people forget is that the series hadn't all been published yet, and certainly wasn't written by the time the actors were signed. So you can't really say they knew what they were getting into. Even if they could have expected the huge and…

Yeah, someone was (very gently) calling her out for wearing her see-through jumpsuit thing and then obviously picking her cuticles with nerves, with the implication being that you should probably not wear something that makes you that nervous, and all I could think was, dude, if I am not actively typing or writing…

It's also important to remember that when she signed on to the franchise, the series hadn't been finished yet, and as we all know, as bad as the first few books are (very), the last book is when shit gets totally crazy and you lose your mind just trying to get your head around how it could ever be published.

I agree. I work in retail (thankfully don't have to work Thanksgiving though the museum shop I work in is open every day except Christmas). When I was being hired, one of the dumb questions my boss had to ask me was, "Where do you shop to get the best retail experience?"

Because the better option is that her students come into class chronically hungry? Anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge knows that the food stamp/school lunch program in this country was started after WWI, when government officials anticipating another war became concerned at the number of children - future…

The point about our early history is fair, if you think that the current perception of most people about our political system is influenced at all by something that happened in 1888, which I don't.

Given that the popular vote in this country is pretty evenly split 50-50, while the electoral college is fairly heavily in favor of Obama (unless there is bias built into both the state and national poll's sample selection, not impossible but unlikely) it seems weird that anyone is beating up on the idea of the…

The only thing you forgot is that 7,000 servings of milk counts for pornstar jizz in a world where there are greater problems than calcium deficiency.

Great. Now I'm stuck here shaking my computer, screaming "How soon is soon HOW SOON IS SOON" because I need to see this movie right now, immediately.

If it helps at all, the last one definitely looks like a case where wildlife conservationists or park rangers are sedating a rhino and taking its horns off in order to make it less of a target for poachers. So that individual rhino is hopefully running around happy, just without a massive dollar sign on its nose.

That bullet about Sam Lufti hiding Britney's dog is just so sad and sick. The pain and fear I've felt when an animal is unwell or lost is just so completely debilitating, I can imagine that if she was already confused and scared that this would have a huge impact on her mental health. Let's all hope it's not true, and…

Shooting is done. I think last night's Dirt Bag said she didn't show up for overdubbing, which still requires her to actually turn up.

By that argument, everyone who is not a lifesaving doctor or medical researcher is, like, practically responsible for the continued deaths of millions from diseases. How dare you continue being a journalist/animator/homemaker/astronaut! Don't you know people are dying?

It's interesting to think that in viewing the baby in that position, we could be looking at the cause of death of an unknown woman who lived 200 years ago, since presumably the models were constructed while looking at actual human dissections. So in photo-real detail we can see what (possibly) killed someone long…

I think the main difference between the two points of being pro- or anti-crowdsourcing comes down to a mistake, which is thinking that what you do and what I do are the same thing. You're a professional animator. I'm an amateur (I don't do animation on HitRECord, but if I did). I have fun, you're doing a job. And I…

Much like the "Amanda Palmer crowdsources her backing musicians for free!" kerfuffle of a few weeks ago, people who get up in arms about crowdsourced talent generally aren't the people being crowdsourced. As a HitRECorder, the biggest thing I get from them is an massive pool of other talented people to work with,…

This is just to say