I bet that he has to register as a LETHAL WEAPON.

They will be dead before any of this shit gets truly real, so what the fuck do they care.

What about Philadelphia?

It is the fracking boom for sure, but the question will be whether or not the state can construct any sort of infrastructure or lasting wealth from the boost. Or will the well run dry and it will return to mainly being known as the partial setting of a great Cohn Brothers movie.

It might be more relevant to ask a Coach that everyone respects. One whose's career win average was higher than .422 per season and .333 in the post-season might have a better understanding of what does or does not motivate a locker room.

Russia DID invent the concept of the Potemkin Village, after all.

I'm sure that hundreds of thousands of tons of industrial waste and garbage produced at the last minute with no plan for safe disposal will have innumerable benefits for the people of Sochi for years to come.

The perfect example of the blowhard/wimp hybrid you mentioned is definitely Brandt from The Big Lebowski.

"Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited."

No Ubik?

Not to mention the show's recent blank-eyed, conservative-style take down of renewable energy, and devoting time to the Solyndra non-scandal.

Or Leslie Stahl's blank-eyed redemptive piece about Jack Abramoff, where she basically allowed him to state all of his self-aggrandizing talking points with only the barest of…

The "military reunion" thing is particularly insidious in that it furthers the packaging of 'war as entertainment' for the American people. The sobbing return of troops becomes a shallow, happy ending without (as it pointed out) any deeper look at the scars of war, and the military furthers its brand as being family…

Whether or not Columbia is actually based on the Tea Party (which it probably is) the fact is that they both pretty much believe the same thing. Everything else is semantics.

Haha, you made fun of a fat guy!