I've looked at Jiro and Exit and passed because I am not into sushi or Banksy, but more people have told me they are great, I should revise my thinking. I tend to like really dark shit about drugs, criminals, air disasters, and anything to do with the penal system (since I am powerfully anti-death penalty and…

Yeah, the Nat Geo one. I have been on a Netflix documentary tear, so I now know a lot about the meth trade, the Aryan Brotherhood, the downing of that AirFrance flight from Brazil to Paris a few years ago, what happens to death row inmates set free after an exoneration by new evidence, etc etc. If you are into…

Good point, blah blah, what I am really interested in is this Aryan Brotherhood kickball team. Am I a horrible person to admit that the image that conjures up just fills me with absolute delight. I mean, I saw the documentary on them on Netflix and fuck that gang is scary and evil.... but the idea of them getting…

I just hope no other mom was watching your wife order that turkey sandwich because she'd surely have been subjected to "OMG, coldcuts will hurt the fetus!! Don't you know anything? You are the worst mother on the planet and you should be ashamed of yourself. I bet you let your kid use PACIFIERS too,…

Almost entirely agree with you, although I make a few exemptions: people with kids, people with luggage (provided said luggage is in front of them and not taking up the whole stair) and women in high heels. As one who wears stilettos a lot, no frickin' way I am walking down that grooved death trap. As it is, I pray…

Racists who are "pro-white" are still just racists. Anti-choice zealots who are "pro-life" are still just anti-choice zealots. And homophobes who are "pro-straight" are still just homophobes (although I resist the -phobe label: they aren't scared of gay people, they hate them!). Pretty sure Maggie's semantics argument…

Is that from the one where Theo wants to go out on his own and the family playacts the "real world" for him? Harley Weewax! Amanda's Furniture City! Mrs. Griswold! Cockroach Oil! Man, what a great show, and the best episode of it ever.

WTF, Japan? I mean, seriously, WTF?

Sorry, friend. Even though it's a total earwig, I still find it charming. As I hope does my choc lab, who is now the beneficiary of it in off-key form.

As someone who is 15 years old and thus, what?, a generation ahead (I can never keep it all straight- haven't the last, like, 10 years been about "millenials" and how is that possible?), how about the advice for those who do opt-in to corporate America, which namely will be (from my perspective): just because you have…

Am I the only one who now has the song "Baby Monkey (Backwards on a Pig)" stuck in her head? LOVE. (Will now sing this song ad infinitum to my dog, whom I sometimes call Baby Monkey)...

You could have shown me that photo of Aimee Teegarden in a police lineup AND told me one of the people in said lineup was on FNL (of which I have seen every episode at least twice) and I *never* would have put the two together. She is unrecognizable! Stunningly gorgeous (in a very different way from her youthful FNL…

Yes yes yes, a thousand times this. I think the same thing. The 80s/90s were record US prosperity and there were so many light-hearted love will win, champions will overcome stories; since then.... economy in the tank and everything is post-apocolyptic nightmare vampires end of the world shit.

No, I said a 14 and 17 year old (or 15/18)....See my other comments for more clarity.

Agreed, don't get me started on the US justice system and how perverted it is.

I miss my Saab 9-3. I loved that car.

I think it may depend on one's own personal experiences how one approaches this. I was very much a late bloomer and a YOUNG 14 years old. By 17 I had finally caught up in many ways, but was still "behind" in terms of sexual, social and emotional maturity into college. Some of my peers were much more advanced. While I…

She was 14 when they started, which is actually where my radar went up, because in my world 14 is YOUNG socially and sexually speaking.

But they are, as you said, legally adults, that's the distinction the courts care about. And if you don't think that is true (due to "drinking alcohol" argument), then the case needs to be made that 18 shouldn't be the age of majority in the US, that 21 should be. And 15, while a year old than 14, still feels a bit…

Sure, and 18 year olds are adults and 14 year olds are kids. I do think that's a pretty wide chasm. That said, these are tough laws because the lines can feel arbitrary when placed against individual cases.