Tod means death in German. Now you know.

In 1973, these pants were called elephant bells.

Bag ordinance means you either bring your own or pay a dime for one. I guess that is kind of like a tax on being black, then. Sigh.

The Elmwood Cafe is about a half mile from the UC Berkeley campus. It is an upscale neighborhood, but Bell would have to do a whole lot more to look "scruffy" in it than wear a $50 designer hoodie.

An Oaklandish sweatshirt costs north of $50, and makes you dressed like half the techbros in the East Bay, not a bum. His eyeglass frames alone mark him as someone with a Real Job. And, as his blog post notes, cafe staff had failed to shoo away the visibly panhandling white guy.

"They throw grenades, we pull the pins and throw them back" is the punchline to a very, very old joke about the Italian Army. If you've never heard that one, you've probably never been asked how many gears an Italian tank has.

Natural Born Killers came out at about the same time as Kalifornia, ALSO starring Juliette Lewis as half of a serial-killin' couple. But Kalifornia had Brad Pitt being seriously fucking scary. Woody Harrelson was just... Haymitch in NBK.

MAKE IT SO. Also, I am totally down for the Magnificent Seven remake.

I don't know where you live, but police won't come arrest you in my city unless you have 1) fired a gun that 2) hit someone. Most people obey laws because they agree with them, or because their neighbors will make their life difficult if they don't and who needs that hassle.

EVERYTHING about the state requires your consent. That's what living in a representative democracy means. Literally no one is forcing you to live in civil society. Our borders are open, in the other direction, and there are some very nice wildernesses out there. But if you choose to have wi-fi, schools and roads, you…

"An increase in the minimum wage tends to have a “ripple effect” on other workers earning wages near that threshold. This ripple effect occurs when a raise in the minimum wage increases the wage received by workers earning slightly above the minimum wage."

Where does this whole "laws are violence" bullshit originate? It seems to require stretching a hypothetical out ad absurdum. You would be hard-pressed to find an employer who was even sent to jail (is that violence?) for cheating employees of their wages. An injunction or fine (is that violence?) would be the much…

I have seen a terrifying/wonderful percentage of these. Hadn't thought about The Duellists in a LONG time.

She married Robbie from "Angus, Thongs..."! Clearly she has used up her third genie wish!

You do know bullets can go through walls, right?

Or maybe the Golden City of Doom?

D'oh!

Now I want to map a continent with NOTHING but those names. What would we call the capital? City of Lost Children?

Portrait mode, oh snap! It would make more sense if she had a Tumblr.

OK, that clip still makes me nauseated.