Good point about the style choice.

YEEEEEEEAH!

Blondie’s Heart of Glass video is a double whammy for me. It starts flying over the Twin Towers—and it’s New York City in 1980, with shots of lower Manhattan and Studio 54: ground-zero for the AIDS epidemic a year later.

At the beginning of the “Death Proof” segment of Grindhouse, the car the characters are riding in appears to be moving north, but then it passes a landmark they could only pass if moving south. I’m sure they made the choice for continuity, but if you were familiar with the landmark, it’s distracting.

The one (very dim) bright spot of watching the Browns make the Jets look like Super Bowl contenders today was the novelty of seeing us get the record of longest completed extra point attempt, after two penalties moved us back for a 48-yard try. Otherwise...the Browns continue to be only slightly less of a blight on…

This is well intentioned, but it has some serious problems.

The Illuminati! The portrayal of the Illuminati as an evil cabal running the world was a manifestation of the fears reactionary powers in late 18th century Europe had about the idea of socially mobile and educated people with coming together to undermine the authority of the church and aristocracy—There was, in fact,…

When Bernie Kosar challenges you to a drinking contest, there’s no way it can end well.

If I was a student and has this weasel-worded assignment presented to me, here’s how I wish I could have had the nerve to respond: “At first I decided to stay, because the bullshit hypothetical in this assignment made me presume I would still be with my family. However, the next week, my wife and kids were sold off at…

Hm. I thought I was going to go to my grave having never seen the lyrics to the Dead Kennedys’ “Kill the Poor” endorsed as a plan for civic action in a major daily newspaper. But, you live and learn!

Why do I suspect an engineer wrote this?

He’s one quick firecracker.

Kudos for the attempt. This is a ridiculously tough needle to thread: 14 years is needed to not be too soon (maybe still is?), and that means the reference is inherently archaic in the zeitgeist.

It’s 3am and this is literally keeping me awake because it is such a startling example of the type of black swan (low-probability/high-impact) event that has caused turbulence for civilizations through out history.

That’s fascinating. What caused the food shortages to reach all the way to Mexico?

All that happens is the cat gets indignant and confused.

Let’s not forget that Fuckabee’s Jesus motivated stupidity already has a bodycount: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

This is Huckabee endorsing religiously motivated torture.

Okay, does anyone else find part with the rats paddling with their little legs and using their tails as rudders as they keep their faces and front paws at the surface of the water to be absolutely adorable?

Now that we know it is possible to fly drones over a lava river, it will be absolutely unforgivable if we do not immediately begin using more drones to drop payload after payload of ridiculously huge fireworks into the lava flow solely for the sake of awesomeness.