In truth, it wasn’t that bad. I was trying to get across that we will take him seriously when he says something hurts (or that someone did something to him, etc.) But also that he needs to not be full of shit when he reports such a thing.

The baby was already asleep and my wife was too exasperated by all of us to try to talk me down from this lunacy.

It undermines the seriousness of gaslighting and actual victims of it

In a world where your toddler will just promiscuously hook up with the first toothbrush they find laying around. You learn to get real paranoid.

“Because I said so” went out the window for those of us who were raised by former civil rights activists. People that were willing to go to the wall to fight against some stupid-ass arbitrary rules felt really weird busting out “Because I said so” on their kids, and now I feel weird busting it out on my kid.

I still…

You’re forgetting the dangerous-but-thrilling tactic of “I’m going to go along with my kid’s obvious bullshit and we’re going to play a really stupid game of chicken until he breaks down and admits he’s lying.”

I’m not pointing any fingers, but the failure of the commentariat to recognize this joke for the brilliant genus-based pun that it is, is surely an indictment of our entire society.

In fairness, the driver of that car had been hitting the wild turkey pretty hard before getting on the road.

Despite the disruption, this was a cathartic experience for everyone.

I don’t think he can really make a deep run at the title, but “Truman Peyote” is the rap name I never knew I missed out on.

Yeah, I’ve known a few Israelis named Nimrod. “Shmul” is also a Hebrew name, though I see it more often as a first name.

I realize I’m woefully late on this but I just discovered Archive 81. It’s pretty good! I was introduced to it by way of an appearance by Oscar Rios (an RPG writer for Call of Cthulhu), who appeared on another podcast I’m a big of, the Miskatonic University Podcast!

Which, alas, didn’t keep io9 from being buried under the Gizmodo vertical... 

So you're saying there's now a precedent for when Yeshiva U is a cinderella and can't play Saturday tourney games?

Winged Hussars always get my vote, even if they are skeletal.

I don’t know of a lot of covers of this song out there, but this one is pretty good. Mostly the other covers’ singers try to sound too much like Phil Collins. This guy has enough a different approach to the vocals that it sounds like a cover (which is what I was after!)

I for one am on board for the Batman vs. Alien adaptation.

Granted this is a terribly under-baked thought, but I would love to see public money for sports teams tied somehow to their performance. Either to a moving 3- or 5-year average of winning percentage, or to the number of butts in seats, or something.

To my infinite dismay: yes.

Yeah, there is zero chance this isn’t running out of the same shop pushing the “leave the Dems” “initiative” for other demographics.