I wonder how many of the same people who pity them are anti-government assistance because it discourages personal responsibility.

So does having any drugs in your background mean your murder was your own fault for everyone, or just for black kids?

Greg Rucka has a long history of writing badass women in a non-exploitative/male gazey way (and one of his novels, A Fistful of Rain, has the kind of flawed, frustrating female protagonist that I wish there were more of, viz. that "I Hate Strong Female Characters" essay that's been going around). I'm pretty excited.

Homeboy needs to play Frank Costello on Boardwalk Empire. His absence is starting to weird out my history nerd instincts.

I still haven't figured out what I'm even typing this on.

I can understand his concern. After all, football is only broadcast on the radio, so there's no visual component if lady-talk makes you miss something.

This is the worst kind of bullshit author copout. Fiction is yours, ya fucking wusses. Nobody makes you follow these unwritten rules but you.

I've heard of that, both the conspiracy theory in general and the doc in particular; it's just kind of fascinating to me that they're so desperate to n—-erize Obama that they'll voluntarily give up the birther thing to get there.

The British tried to do a version but it fell apart once they got to William of Orange.

Oh, that's just proof that Democrats are Teh Real Racists to them.

Well, kids, the good news is, now that you know what your least cool uncle will be getting you for Christmas, you can write a thank-you note early.

Don't put Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen in the same place if you're not gonna detonate a bomb.

Why, it's almost as though the man was telling a joke. We need a name for these people, these tellers of jokes, that we might identify them more easily.

Oy.

This might not be an explicitly conservative viewpoint, but they also regularly run Richard Cohen's apologia for racism, Kathleen Parker's faux-reasonability, Chuckles Krauthammer's endless-war fantasies and Marc Thiessen's torture-fapping. Not to mention the fact that, like pretty much all "liberal" beltway media,…

Is there any particular reason people call the WaPo liberal, or do they just like the sound of it?

This is a society where you can't assign a book featuring pedophilia because parents think it's child pornography, because Americans think "context" is something a criminal does with his phone.

You know, it really doesn't matter what [the media] write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Yeah, I was waiting for the twist that he was actually a Jaeger the entire movie.

That's not what Pacific Rim was? I should have watched it from the beginning.