Any collection of good writing about Muhammad Ali has to include this George Carlin bit:

You’re an idiot.

News organizations have a First Amendment right to exercise editorial judgment however they see fit. Especially since right-to-reply and other fairness rules were eliminated in the 1970s and 1980s. See Tornillo v. Miami Herald among others.

See, that’s the problem: The teachings and principles are NOT static, at all.

American Christianity is downright sociopathic. If you wrong someone, you don’t have to make amends. You don’t have to apologize. You don’t even have to stop doing it, because we’re all sinners anyway. You just have to request forgiveness from your imaginary friend, in a ritual that no one else has to see.

My favorite Christopher Lee story is that the father of the woman he wanted to marry told him he had to get the approval of the King of Sweden.

You probably think the US government needs a warrant if they want to dig through your old emails, texts, and instant messages, right? Well, you’re wrong!

Religious universities, in particular, have struggled to suss out the interrelationship between moral dictates and the judicious treatment of victims.

I too am a C3PO fan. He shouldn’t be as good a character as he is. He’s a jokey concept - a cowardly robot in a world of fearless living things - and a writing crutch for any scene that needs translation or exposition. But he justifies his existence in various ways throughout the original trilogy. (The other movies,…

Infomercials have more believeable acting than this.

I had a similar thought. I thought that 18/30/30/22 didn’t seem that odd a distribution. What I failed to consider was that they evaluated 100,000,000 prime numbers. This is a large enough number of trials for the Law of Large Numbers to take effect.

Rrrrright. John Swofford has been begging UConn to join the ACC, but they keep turning it down to stay in a conference with UCF and Tulsa for one-tenth the TV revenue. Take another hit, bro, that’s some good stuff you’re smoking.

That picture always reminds me of the “Clockwork Orange” movie poster.

Are you seriously suggesting that the only reason schools aren’t in power conferences is because they didn’t ASK?

Iron is better than wheelbarrow, in that at least the iron will sit flat. But both had the same underlying problem (in my set, anyway) of being lightweight relative to the other pieces. They seemed to be made out of plastic, while the more popular pieces were metallic and had a satisfying heft to them.

I think so too. I’ve seen some making-of documentaries from when the movie was released (before Jar Jar acquired his hatedom), and you can tell George Lucas and Ahmed Best really put a lot of thought into this character. Lucas was very concerned about a fully-CGI main character being believable. He said something like…

And it went on for EVER. I swear that one scene took five minutes. Maybe they were going for a meta-joke by making the moviegoers wait for Star Wars while the high-strung animal cop character was waiting for the sloth. But all it did was piss me straight off.

I’ll agree with you that the sequel has a clearer and scarier villain. But give Walter Peck his due. He only appears in the second act of the movie, but he drives the conflict. Until then, we’ve only seen the Ghostbusters go into business, say funny things, and hint at a coming apocalypse. Peck causes the apocalypse,…

Ghostbusters has a charismatic, terrifying villain: Walter Peck.

No one ever mentions this one, but: I HATE HATE HATE that the special edition changed Obi-Wan’s line about Mos Eisley from “This place can be a little rotten” to “a little rough.”