No, China is serious as a heart attack about those islands. They are playing Risk with the South China sea and everyone who is not China wants very badly to persuade them to knock it the fuck off.

The U.S. and China’s neighbors fear Beijing will use the artificial islands it is building to bolster its claims to the entire South China Sea, most of which is far outside even its 200 miles exclusive economic zone – and assert those claims by force. The U.N. Convention says states can build artificial islands in…

Nothing bad has ever come from fighting bellicose Asian nations over crappy little islands in that general area, right? Let’s go for it! I say for every reef they destroyed to build an island, we make one of their ships into an artificial reef!

We used to play this chicken game with the Russians back in the ‘80’s. We were careful to turn off radars and to aim weapons down to the deck to preclude any excuse for a “misunderstanding” and I thought both sides, at least the men on the ships if not the men back at headquarters, pretty-well understood the game. I…

You still get participation points!

Am I doing this right?

I use the “I’ll time you trick” on my daughters all the time. Children are such adorable, glorious little morons.

I honestly think its just to preserve the moment. Not necessarily something spoilerly - just cathartic. Sure, it would have been cool to see Luke pull back his hood (or whatever) in the trailer - but that moment is going to bring the gawddamned house down when we all see it en masse on the big screen.

Yes Anna Melon, if that’s your real name, whatermelon you doing criticizing old white men for this? Honeydew you understand we white men are an oppressed class?

Sometimes, you don’t even hear or see the cannon shells that rip you to hamburger. Or...the point is...you are still alive when they start to eat you.

It doesn’t hurt that Clinton and Richards are about 19x smarter than anyone else in the room.

Making Sean Penn feel outraged is like looking at fish in a barrel.

“Out of your $12 mil of hotel tax, only 1.4% percent goes to the SF Public Libraries. So that’s $168,000.”

I have come to a conclusion all these share economy companies are a collective group of arrogant assholes.

You’re right...it’d only be fair, cubs fans were nothing but graceful after their wins in the wild card game and NLDS, so we really should try to—PPPFFFFFFT BAHAHAHAHA oh man, sorry, couldn’t finish that one with a straight face

Yes

Most photographed person in the world is my neighbor. You’ll be mine one day, you little minx you...

Yup. Kit Harrington’s stunt double is probably about to lay the smack down on him pretty hard.

Why not both?