Word! Europe had a good encore after Black Death, Great Famine and Hundred Years with the Renaissance and Modern Era, but man the 14 century was a motherfucker.

This was one of my favorite books in 5th grade!

Sorry to be be pedantic, but I think you mean Thirty Years War. Hundred Years War was from the 1350's to the 1450's.

Does anyone else think Colt McCoy's biggest problem might be the fact he sounds like Jim Nabors? Ccould anyone actually expect to hear an audible from from Gomer Pyle: Washington QB?

This makes me think two things: 1) Greil Marcus is somewhere going "told ya so!" 2) Awkwafina might be the first legitimate manifestation of punk rock the last 25 years (going off Marcus's idea of punk rock as music that refuses to accept predetermined social facts distributed through media).

What is appalling is what you apparently think passes as argument presentation. Can we assume you are a Penn State alumnus, or are you qualified be a faculty at State College member because you got a rejection letter from UPenn?

Paris 1919, by John Cale (Nico's former bandmate from the Velvet Underground and multi-instrumentalist on Chelsea Girl). The dense strings and brass makes me think of enormous banks of clouds rolling in—as if the weather is pleasant, but months of harsh cold weather is at drawing near.

What about the enormous chunk of the student body who willingly came out to protest the firing of a man who deliberately hid the crimes of a pedophile from law enforcement for over 15 years? How many thousands of undergrads publicly supporting a sex abuse enabler does it take to be considered common? Thought you would…

Actually, he left out the sizable chunk of the Penn State student body that came out to protest the firing of a man who aided and abetted a child sex predator for better part of two decades. That's closer to 40,000 names he left out. So, dropping the ball isn't common in Happy Valley, what's common is deliberate…

Let's explore the character's subtext. Pretend as if after each sentence he says "...And we're still going to lose."

My thoughts are suddenly going to very strange places. Before this I was not worried about Ebola spreading, and gave no credence to prophecies about world-ending epidemics. However, if there could ever be a sign of the Apocalypse, surely Fox News becoming the voice of reason is one. If Kirk Cameron starts promoting…

It's really heartwarming to see Ed Fitzgerald enjoying his new found sense of freedom now that he's accepted there's no chance of him winning in November. Good for him!

That's what I was trying to tell the people at the YMCA, but they were all like "no, you're banned for life!"

Today feels good.

The last paragraph talks about packing nuance into simple words. I think that is correct, largely because communication technology makes the use of nuance more possible.

Ben Roethlisberger has always struck me as the kind of guy who might become (marginally) less loathsome if he suffered a debilitating head injury.

Where have I seen this before?

They were part the Borg Collective, right?