Okay, here’s a theory. I haven’t read everything the Internet has had a chance to churn out over the last 24 hours, so there’s a good chance someone has already posited this one, but I like it, so I’m going to run with it here...

“Haha!  Bi-curious...”

I can’t tell if this is a real question. I honestly can’t. Just in case it is...

I would not have guessed that this was supposed to be Spock if I wasn’t told by the article.

Yeah, I agree. I can’t remember what the actual subject matter of the joke was, but my wife and I were sitting through some comedian’s weak material making fun of...someone, I guess...and I remember saying to my wife, “Y’know, I don’t even need to make a decision as to whether or not this offends me. I’ve been…

Yup, that’s a pretty good example. When your “best” answer to a question like that is, “I’ll do whatever the committee wants,” knowing full well that a Republican-led committee is never, ever going to call for a real investigation, then what you’ve given is a non-answer that has only the barest patina of actual…

Yeeeeah, but the allegation isn’t false. Or, at least, the truth is close enough to the accusation that it doesn’t really matter. Either way, you could have watched Kavanaugh’s testimony with very little context and no prior knowledge of the subject matter, and it still would have been apparent that he was lying. You…

No, but in a way, we’re all Gary now...

Every time that man steps up to a podium to speak in front of other world leaders, I feel like I’m dining out with the whole family at Applebee’s or something, and our racist, inappropriate, dementia-stricken grandfather is there with us, and we’re all just white-knuckling it through dinner, side-eyeing each other,…

Yeah, I’d consider it more of a fantasy/magical premise than a sci-fi premise. If the resets stopped not upon Phil’s self-actualization, but when the aliens got tired of fucking with him and turned off the repeat button on the time engine, then maybe...

Yeah, he gets a touch hyperbolic to make his point, taking a swipe at small breweries with: “Now, it seems every city, town and hamlet I visit has its own beer made by locals: Specialty beers, microbrews, craft beers made by community artisans. And I have to tell you, without exception, they’re all bad.”

This is a useful brain hack for when you’re having a super hard time staying present. Just say what you’re doing, either silently or out loud.

The state finally delivered a bigger dumpster this a.m. to haul the whale to a composting site for an autopsy.

Good comment. It actually made me think about the JD/Turk friendship on Scrubs and whether the “bromance” they had (and compulsively put a lampshade on in the later seasons) helped or hurt the idea of close, platonic male friendships.  And whether the term “bromance” helps or hurts, for that matter.  I’d be curious as…

Yeah, it’s called “strict liability,” and it’s one of those (somewhat) rare instances where the law doesn’t care what your intent was (i.e., whether you knew they were underage and proceeded anyway). If “she told me she was 18" was any kind of legal defense, offenders would use it each and every time, and in the…

1.) That’s kind of debatable, since there’s no way to tell how much of one rationale really predominates over the others. Maybe jail to me is more about getting dangerous people off the streets. Maybe to you, it’s more about making them pay for what they did. Maybe to the guy next to us, it’s about sending a message…

I would actually love that. Like, if all the actual action takes place in the first fifteen minutes, and the remaining two hours of the film is dedicated to Carol standing trial for punching the head right off an innocent old lady, including her futile attempts to explain shape-shifting aliens to a disbelieving 1990s…

I get that you’re in the field (Internet aside, I’ll take you at your word on that), but you’re missing the general point I was making, choosing to focus on extremely specific examples to try to make your own, and ignoring the part of my comment that made the distinction between judicial philosophy and practical…

No, that’s not true. The purposes are the same. The sentencing is different based on notions surrounding a child’s agency and presumptions regarding their ability to reform, but the rationales are identical.

Hey, I’m not one to overgeneralize, but there’s a reason France’s official national mascot* is a rapist.