Welp, so long and thanks for all the fish...

He should never have stolen that baby’s lollipop.

Michael Rappaport is what happens when personified mediocrity hangs out outside a Hollywood studio for long enough.

Also because the outbreak didn’t happen just once. It happened nationwide in 2015, but there have been consistent localized outbreaks every few months since then (at least in the DC area). Therefore, instead of a single mistake that has been fixed, it’s a single mistake that has led to rolling failures. It’s playing…

This is an excellent sum up. Thank you.

Yeah, it’s just the performative bit I don’t like. The kissing is fine.

It’s a bit over obsessive, sure. But I’m the sort of person who doesn’t even put his daughter’s pictures on Facebook because she’s still too young to have any say in the matter. So the idea of forcing a child to perform affection for an audience really feels squicky to me.

Yeah, it’s not sexual, but it’s weirdly unnatural, and it’s requiring an 11-year-old to do something on camera for public consumption that he may not be comfortable doing for an audience. Is it okay to kiss your dad on the lips for more than a peck? Yeah, sure. If it okay for your dad to require that you do it on…

Lying, yes. Guilty, no. Many lawyers know their clients are guilty and that’s absolutely not grounds for withdrawing representation. If he knows his client is going to commit perjury under oath, the lawyer must first attempt to convince the client to not lie, then take steps to mitigate (i.e. convince client to not…

My favorite Thai restaurant make spicy basil seitan that is as good as any meat dish. I, who am not remotely vegan, order it on the regular because it’s just amazing.

I mean, I understand your point, but I’m not entirely sure that would work very well, nor that that flight would be very pleasant. I’m worried enough that travelling with my own (small, in-cabin) dog will be trouble due to her natural temperament without worrying about a plane full of other people’s potentially…

A soldier with ptsd who requires an animal typically has a licensed service animal. Those are okay and no one will say otherwise.

I mean, I get that traveling is stressful for many people, and especially air travel. And airlines tend to do very little to make the experience just a bit more pleasant, especially American carriers, and especially especially United. There are people who legitimately need emotional support animals and/or guide…

Not saying I have exact information on this, because I actually don’t, but can you imagine how much money a Russian oligarch, say someone on the Magnitsky list, might pay to have an American surrogate if that was their thing? It certainly would be well more than 9 months of labor is worth to most people...

At the very least, it’ll become a makeout bench...

This dude’s a trilby and a trenchcoat away from trying to pickup m’ladys in a Gamestop parking lot.

Zaphod, no!

Wait, so the parody Barney songs we sang in middle school weren’t actually parody? Whoa.

For real. Dude was just selling a dead tree that he maybe hadn’t even cut down. If you’re selling firewood, it better be already cut up so I can... I don’t know... put it on a fire? If you aren’t going to split it, it’s just a damn log.

I know right? I’ve known about this shit since I was in middle school better than 25 years ago. As a result, I’ve never been even the slightest bit interested in seeing Annie Hall or Sleepers or whatever-the-fuck else he’s done. He’s a genius and auteur, great. So’s Polanski and he raped a 13 year old. That’s not…