seriously. I was 10 in 1976, and believe me, Star Wars was a bigger deal than the bicentennial.Star Wars ate my life. I had both albums (the soundtrack and the Story of Star Wars), all the bubblegum cards, the magazines... toys, what toys? (little did I know)

do not forget that Arizona was boycotted for refusing to sign on to the day as a federal holiday. They fought it tooth and nail. They only changed the law banning observance of the holiday when it looked like it would cost them hosting the Superbowl:

tl;dr pointing out racism is the real racism, some of my best friends, as a white man let me tell you about race relations, yadda yadda yadda. (marks off bingo card)

tl;dr, Sarah Palin has 51 cards at her disposal but the one card she doesn't hold is unfair to play.

I smell an Ignoble Prize in the future for this guy...

that's the Disney version. The actual stage musical has, um... songs like that one song. And the other song, about not growing up. And of course the "ugga wugga wigwam" song by Tiger Li—- uh, you know what, I'll just go unhook my TV now and leave it out by the curb if that's okay with you all.

okay: a couple of years back I was going through a tough financial time and had run out of stuff to throw on Ebay and decided to list my mother's charm bracelet, which had little silver charms from 20+ years of traveling everywhere. I was literally down to selling the few things I had gotten from her when she passed,…

sounds like a case of "passed the bar and stayed there" to me...

She was so freaking awesome period. I was just thinking about her the other day too. I keep meaning to google her but I keep not doing it for fear of being disappointed.

I've always thought a loop of Bonaly's backflip (illegal! shocking!) would make a great "Look at all the fucks I give" gif. Twenty years later it still makes me giggle.

proper experimentation requires multiple tests. I suggest maybe limit to one series a day though, otherwise you might spew I mean skew the data....

wait, After Earth was an M. Night Shyamalan directed thing? Of course it was. Shocking twist there.

are you the Nome King

that's like determining the World Series by who hit the most homers in the All Star game. Makes not sense any.

yeah that's totally not a "enjoy it while it lasts, honey, the committee already told me I'm going and you're not" look, is it

seriously, your team can win every game during the season but if you lose the semifinals, you don't get credit for the rest of the season factored in, you sit your ass out till next season while two other teams go for the finals.

also Michelin stars are way harder to get than say, AAA diamond ratings (which go to 5). For example, in the hotel I used to work at in Vegas, the hotel and several top restaurants were 4 and 5 diamond AAA rated, but only one restaurant on the whole strip has/had a 2 star Michelin rating. Most are not even rated. I…

As part of making the reservation I was required to ask if there were children in the party and what ages, and invariably a four year old would magically be "turning 5" at a 5+ age limit restaurant. It's not like children carry IDs so they (edit: the parents/caller) think they're not only putting one over on us,…

when I worked in Vegas making restaurant reservations for hotels I can't tell you how many times I had to explain what "no kids" in certain restaurants means. The hotel has 11 fine dining choices, most allow kids 5+, but a couple of really really expensive ones say no kids whatsoever, no matter how much you say "but…

oh Microsoft, stop trying to make "Bing" happen.