On io9 they phrased it as though this was the first act of free will that had ever been performed by any of the hosts, which is confusing to me. Does this mean Bernard never exercised free will? What about his relationship with Theresa? or when he forced Ford to relay his memories? Am I misremembering those, and they…

Jonathan is Jonah. Apparently it can be a nickname for Jonathan?

I don’t think anyone’s watched it, since it hasn’t premiered yet. And I have no opinion on it, or its producers. I was simply clarifying which show the OP was talking about (unless there’s another show about police killings where the lead is black, as is the officer).

I think Global Beet might have been referring to Shots Fired, another show about a police killing of a black man. Sanaa Lathan plays the lead.

As a Chicagoan, I am shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, to find out that a bunch of kids from Mt. Greenwood, a neighborhood filled to the brim with CPD officers and their families, are little racist shits.

but but...white working class people! we need to help them get their non-existent factory jobs back!

Speak for yourself. These people voted for Trump because, at the very least, they were willing to ignore rhetoric about stomping all over the Constitutional liberties of Muslims and hateful rhetoric about Latinos, immigrants, black people, women, and the list goes on and on.

I don’t think it’s shade, I think she was actually friends with Melissa Mathison. She dedicated her first novel to her as well and thanked her for the help (Mathison was a screenwriter). Mathison also started dating Ford when he was still married to his first wife, so she was in the same boat as Carrie Fisher was at…

Child support is usually determined by the state regardless of the custodial parent’s income. Here in Illinois, for example, one child gets a minimum of 20% of the non-custodial parent’s income, plus anything extra the judge might think is needed. In the linked article from July, it says the child has multiple medical…

The redline is the grossest. I once saw a girl throw up into a paper bag from Giordano’s and have it burst all over the floor. She started to wail, but only because she was devastated the “cubs fucking looooooooost! this is the worst fucking day of my fucking liiiiiiiife”. This was in the middle of December, so no…

A mediocre artist that nobody will remember or care about in 100 years compares to one of the most enduring artists of all time?

This is beside the point, but of course a porno was shot at Alexander Hamilton High. That guy loved him some ladies.

Rosario Dawson continues to be the only cast member of Kids to get out alive/not totally insufferable.

“and if we were, were we ever going to be able to come down to Earth...together?”

You mean the same residents that specifically complained about “African-American residents” making too much noise?

I’m a spiteful asshole, so this would only make me be louder (which I realize is not an option for some, like if they’re afraid they might get kicked out). Like, I’d hire a fucking marching band to walk up and down the halls. Play Metallica at top fucking volume all the time.

That’s what my mother did with us. There are six of us, and in her words, she is “not a short order cook.” One of my brothers went on strike with lettuce for awhile, but after a few missed dinners, he figured that lettuce was better than being hungry, and no desert like applesauce or a cookie because he hadn’t eaten…

Unfortunately, I did not grow up amongst a group of rag-tag brits, just trying to help out some poors while learning about the world...and themselves. Although that would have been pretty sweet.

Well, we can argue back and forth over whether or not the Arab Spring was a good or bad thing, and the Arab Winter certainly points to the latter (which is not what this post is about), but what I meant was, at that moment, Twitter was the way much of the world was finding out what was going on, and was how I stayed…

It’s stories like this that make me roll my eyes when people lament the rise of social media. Because of facebook, and the ability to connect with strangers from all over, this little girl was able to have an amazing party. I just feel like there really is good in a lot of people, and things like facebook and twitter…