Sorry for being flippant in my initial response - it's too hot here and I haven't had a drink yet today. The tone of your initial comment seemed too dismissive of the girls involved, jumping straight to wondering how men factored into the whole thing, which kind of isn't the point here. But I do agree that it's a…

Oh, shit, everybody! Shut it down! We've got ourselves an actual "Doctor" weighing in here! One who's even spent "lots of time" abroad! His anecdotal evidence is surely more persuasive than anything you've actually experienced in your own life!

1) I suppose you could say that 700 million is "almost 1/7" of 7 billion. You could, more accurately and just as easily, say that it "is 1/10"."

Not sure I agree 100% with your math there, Lou.

Jesus fucking Christ. Well, I'm glad we've reached the point in society that we no longer have a single CEO or CFO or Corporate Officer in any corporation in this country who committed, or continues to commit, egregious fucking crimes of financial impropriety, whilst simultaneously being compensated beyond all…

She actually addresses this issue in the FAQ on her website:

Yeah, I've been wondering that too. Some of the other articles surrounding this case seemed to come down around "Well, yeah, she's a shitty liar, but he shouldn't have threatened to sue her." But, after a certain point, what recourse do you have? If it's been months, and the person accusing you of something you…

If this case has taught us nothing else, it's that everything everyone says on the internet is 100% factually accurate at all times.

I also heard that the Beach Boys sand castle memorial was washed out at high tide. And the Rolling Stones tribute boulder fell off the cliff it was perched on. And the commemorative statue of the Kinks was torn down and replaced by a chiropractor's office.

Yeah, yeah, I know.. D&D, Iron Giant, Riddick sci-fi stuff. But, based on a wide sample size of varying degrees of rednecks and dudebros via extended families and in-laws, the primary fanbase of Vin Diesel skews way more toward Fast and Furious macho grandstanding than D&D nerdery.

What does that marquee say? What the fuck is a "Gwar-Dee-Ans?" And do I see the word "Galaxy?" Shit, did I make a nerd movie?

No, it's even more insidious. All they're claiming is that she tested positive for marijuana "in her system." Meaning she had smoked pot at some point in the past week or so, not even that she was high at the time. They're using the fact that she broke the law by smoking marijuana in the past to criminalize her as…

"Ms. McBride could have thought she was breaking into her marijuana supplier's house" when she was shot on the porch, the defense attorney claimed during pre-trial.

You win.

This was back in 2009, so all I knew him for at the time was the 1st season of Flight of the Conchords (which I loved). They were playing a concert in Minneapolis that night, and we were staying at the same hotel as them. We ran into them in the lobby and chatted a bit, but then we left to go to a bar cause it was…

The patriarch of the family is dead and there have been mass defecations in the Phelps household.

God, I thought Ben Stein was innocuous from Ferris Bueller through about the 1st season of Win Ben Stein's Money. If I saw him now, I'd probably karate chop him in his dumb sleeping neck. John Waters is a national treasure though.

If I had any connection to Alanis at all, I would constantly reference 'sliming' her when she told me "I don't know."

I was completely bummed when I realized I met the entire Flight of the Conchords crew and realized Kristen Schaal wasn't there. One of my unrepentant celebrity crushes.

These 2 seem less like "lame" claims to fame; more like "slightly obscure."