I have huge star crushes on both Keira Knightley and James McAvoy and that scene just kills me. The entire movie, really. I know a lot of people think it’s boring but damn, I love that movie and it’s really mostly the acting. McAvoy in particular is just amazing.

Yeah, I say it all the time and it doesn’t seem particularly “folksy” (haha) to me, or related to education or class or anything like that. Pretty much everyone I know uses it. It’s never stood out to me when a politician said it.

Thanks for the local perspective. And yeah, I honestly don’t see a hate crime here, based on my understanding of hate crime legislation. It wouldn’t surprise me that much if maybe he was a little more angry at them because at least some of them (like Nabra) were pretty obviously Muslim based on their dress, but…

I don’t think the road rage aspect is really that important to this case, or even that it’s a specific charge. It is just a description of how the incident began.

I really, truly appreciate this post. Wildfires are an issue that really needs a much bigger response. And I’m so sorry for your friend, and for all the people who have lost their homes from wildfires. I’ve come close, to the point of needing to evacuate and needing to do smoke damage remediation when I returned.

I did mean to reply to you, but I was trying to agree with you while adding some other examples to back you up. I apologize that that wasn’t clear; I really appreciated the context you gave about the Rohingya massacre and their history.

Yeah, it’s easy to point the finger at religion, and I am not denying that many horrific things have been done in the name of pretty much all religions ever, but I think it’s more of an issue of tribalism. People have historically tended to be quite religious, and religion is an easy way to enforce social mores and…

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been reading a bunch of articles on this but hadn’t seen this information about her.

Very well-said, and exactly my point. We have a tendency to project human values onto dogs, so to a lot of people, a dog that wants to fight with other dogs, or wants to eat small animals, or doesn’t like strangers is just a bad dog. But those are all very useful traits in the right situation, and dogs don’t have the…

I can’t really get a clear view of the video (thanks, satellite internet) so I can’t really get a good read on body language, but the lack of barking and snarling doesn’t mean that they aren’t aggressive towards each other. Serious dog aggression tends to be pretty quiet and subtle. The barking and snarling is…

Sort of, but it’s a specific thing that pops up with pit bulls. A lot of well-meaning pit bull advocates basically try to rewrite history and ignore the more aggressive roots of the breed, claiming instead that they used to be used as “nanny dogs”—in other words, dogs that would literally babysit children because…

Very good points, and I do agree. I responded to accordingto in a similar fashion, but looking back, I think I was reacting more to the comment section here than the actual exhibit. I was also viewing it on satellite internet during a storm, so was having trouble getting some sites to load and only saw very blurry…

Those are excellent points, and I shouldn’t have said that I don’t have a problem with this particular exhibit, because I wasn’t aware of some of those (I did watch a clip of the video but I have satellite internet and the weather was bad, so it was very blurry and I couldn’t see much). I meant more that I can’t get…

That is very true, but I also want to point out that pit bulls really were bred for fighting and often do have a high level of innate dog aggression. This doesn’t mean that they are bad dogs; I have several dogs (not pits, because somewhat ironically given the content of this post, I find pits a little too goofy and…

I love Darren Aronofsky but I didn’t go see this yet because I enjoy movies so much more if I have some understanding of what might happen. That’s probably blasphemy in cinema nerd circles, but it’s true. I love knowing the story and being able to relax and pay attention to all the lovely little details building it…

I appreciate it, but I really mostly do it because it’s a lot of fun, so there’s really no need to thank me.

This headline was a rollercoaster for me, because I read it on mobile and the second half was broken up into a second line. So I went from, “Aw, what a nice guy, willing to risk his life to save a dog,” to “OH HELL NO!” in the second it took me to scroll down.

I’m a volunteer first responder, not FF but in my county we have the same “pay” structure as they do. You don’t get paid but you do get reimbursement for certain things, including buying certain (very limited) gear items, mileage if you use your personal vehicle, per diem reimbursement on certain types of calls, etc.…

You know, I’m actually subscribed to Nosleep but I gave up after one early episode, which isn’t really fair. I’ll have to try again.

Yeah, La Quinta is generally my backup place. The price difference isn’t even such a big thing for me anymore (though it definitely used to be when I was younger and didn’t have the stable income I do now). The bigger thing now is that almost all La Quintas, or at least all of the ones I’ve stayed at, have a more…