"Failed to avoid the injuries of which she complains?" Uh, doesn't that statement apply to any injured person? If a lunatic chops your arm off with a circular saw, don't you fail to avoid that, as the victim? It's actually an incredible feat of grammar to completely avoid the passive voice in a legal defense and skip…

I knew gay people were awesome. I did not know they were THIS awesome.

I was really prepared for the quote in the hed to be an exaggeration of what Rivard actually said. He sure showed me.

God, I love this movie. And I also love the original ending, and it is fucking fabulous to see it make it onto the blu-ray.

Also a huge fan of this argument.

Booooo Diamond. (and sorry! Much too bitchy!) It's fucking amazing, btw.

You know, I'm a Christian—not like a sure-I-do-church-at-Christmas Christian, but a real live Appalachian Jesus freak—and I don't fucking understand this shit. If you believe that it's wrong to get an abortion, isn't maybe SHAMING PEOPLE INTO GETTING A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM a lot more wrong? If you believe that abortion…

Praise the Lord. One of the reasons I actually found From Hell easier to read than Lost Girls was that, in the former, he seemed to be really enjoying himself and could focus on other things besides the sex, and in the latter, he seems to be subsuming all of his weird and horrible unspoken ideas about sex under a…

Reading that David Foster Wallace bio convinced me that Elizabeth Wurtzel might actually be the worst person in the entire world.

Uh, also the new Charles Burns?

BEST. REF. EVER.

Nah, my church has a homeless ministry and I really love a lot of the folks who come. I mean, a lot of them have made really terrible mistakes but by and large it's humbling how ready they are to take care of each other to the best of their abilities. I understand that not everybody is that way, but they're not at all…

This is awesome. For what it's worth, I have rarely met kinder, more giving people than the very poor.

Yeah, porn belongs on Tumblr.

While, honestly, that ordnance DOES seem to violate the first amendment, it's hard to describe exactly how unpleasant it is to deal with these fuckos until you actually go down to, say, Middle Tennessee State University and there's some righteous fortysomething jagoff proclaiming death to all homos with a look of just…

You're fucking exhausting. Go to bed yourself, Ginmar. It makes me sad that you get this much joy out of tormenting random people you think might disagree with you. I can't imagine what a small, petty, awful life you must lead for you to devote this much energy to crafting the nastiest possible response to everything…

Not that anyone necessarily gives a damn, but the 6,000-year lifespan is actually based on a really stupid MISinterpretation of the Bible—one that is not nearly strict enough, in other words. The word "fathered" or "begat" was understood by biblical scholars to mean "was the direct father of" when it actually means…

Speaking of deflection, have you commented here as Ginmar? I think you have.

Well, the boys doing this shit are also maybe not that awesome, but they should be grounded or something. It's normal teenage behavior in the same way that giving wedgies to kids who don't have friends is normal teenage behavior, but that doesn't mean a grownup with a brain shouldn't put a stop to it. Unfortunately…

Jesus, what the hell is wrong with you? Why can't you respond to what I actually say instead of making all the worst possible assumptions about me? I understand that if you have even the slightest charity you might inadvertently miss the chance to tell someone that HE'S WRONG ON THE INTERNET, but it's actually worth…