Lucas is to blame for all of it. I respect his vision and his ambition, but holy shit there’s never been a guy that needed to farm out the writing and directing more than he did (as, remember, he did with Empire and Jedi). Such a waste.

It’s hard to re-watch it even today. I still get all excited when they’re circling each other on those little hoverboards over the lava lake, and I still get so disappointed at the total failure of that line and how it takes all the air out of that scene, especially in response to McGregor’s work immediately before it…

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

***THE ABSOLUTE APEX OF THE THIRD AND FINAL PREQUEL DURING THE MUCH PINED-FOR FIGHT THAT SET EVERYTHING TO COME IN MOTION***

To the plunger question:

I grew up around a ton of Notre Dame fans when I was kid (Irish, raised Catholic, from Ohio), and it was always taken as a given that ND football was a really important thing in the world of sports. Then I went to a Midwestern Catholic school, and a lot of the kids I knew from Chicagoland continued to swear that was…

Referencing the gaming of the primary system wins you this round, my friend. I had no idea what a sham the Democratic primary was this year until I went back and checked the tape the last couple weeks. That’s the part that’s made me the most furious, people who SUPPORTED THAT now being so enraged at third-party…

Did the ceiling in your bathroom collapse because the politician you supported didn’t go to your state one time throughout the entire election cycle (both primary and general) but still somehow figured the state was a lock? And in part because of that negligence, not only lost the state for herself but also for the…

It’s refreshing to find this sentiment here. This is the whole thing.

My buddy who’s a big Michigan fan was screaming that at the TV. With a shitty, rattled quarterback and a tired defense, you either go win the game or don’t, but you sure as hell don’t just keep dragging it out when you’ve done nothing to win the game in over an hour.

That’s going to be some fucking bullshit when the Big Ten champ doesn’t make the playoff, that’s for damn sure.

I don’t think Ohio State deserved to win it, either, and said out loud “Michigan’s going to win this game” in the middle of the third when they went up 17-7. They had every opportunity to put OSU away, and they should have, but they didn’t. If you wind up in that position, then it’s no one else’s fault if a call or…

But the ball wasn’t.

Y’all can keep saying “short” and “obviously” and “Michigan got screwed,” but they had every opportunity to win this game outright. And should have. And didn’t. 8 penalties to 1 (including an escalator personal foul on the coach for being a bitch) and three turnovers from the quarterback? Eat shit. No one “deserves”…

Sometimes y’all expect too much out of people who tell jokes for a living. This conversation is like the one over on Jez about how bad Dave Chappelle is now because he didn’t go crazy talking shit and trying to start a revolution on his first-ever SNL hosting gig. He did a long monologue that ended with a well-told…

Nope. It’s just a kid. The less of your own baggage you lay on the little one the better, far as I can see it. The shit’s hard enough as it is, and nobody has any idea what they’re doing.

In my experience, there’s simply more outside pressure involved with being a parent these days, same as there’s more pressure on so many other aspects of life, due to Facebook, the interwebs, popular culture and mass media, keeping up appearances, etc. Some people try really hard to let everyone know that EVERYTHING…

It really ain’t that bad, man. I’m a stay-at-home dad with a part-time job, and while it’s fucking miserable a decent amount of the time, it’s pretty solid otherwise. They literally don’t know anything, so you have to teach them everything, but sometimes they pick up stuff you didn’t show them and you have no idea…

I’d nudge that 40% figure up closer to 60%, maybe higher, at least as far as the practical concerns of this election go. Not only did they force a candidate down everybody’s throat at the expense of a seemingly more popular candidate who came out of nowhere, they did that for someone who ALREADY LOST A PRIMARY UNDER…

Sounds amazing.