That sounds like a plausible explanation and hopefully it’s approximately accurate. I’ve been wondering how we as a society should balance the need to give an audience to people who have historically gone unheard while at the same time keeping in mind the mass of scientific evidence that suggests that most if not all…

When people started talking about how there were children in the theater I thought that they must have toned it down for the musical version. Then I looked it up and “Beetlejuice” was released with a PG rating in 1989. Did they change the standards or am I remembering that movie wrong? It’s been many years but half…

I get that you’re trying to pretend Putin is the equivalent of Hitler or Stalin when that’s just laughable. You have to have a strawman to justify your extreme position, I get it. I don’t get the root of your partisanship if you’re not Ukrainian but if it makes you feel good, do it. And that’s the real cause of what…

War crimes are the excuses used to execute the losers. It’s why the winners, or at least the not-losers like our American politicians, never get punished for the ones they definitely commit. The whole idea of war crimes sounds nice but it’s smoke and mirrors to justify killing your enemies and always has been.

I get your analogy but I don’t think that the Russian Federation is the equivalent of the Third Reich or the Soviet Federation as far as military power. Can’t Europe defend itself from the Russians if it comes down to it? They have nukes of their own, the makings of a Continental system of government and are no longer…

If I’m remembering it right she was cast on sight with no audition by the author of the book the show was based on. Apparently she looked and sounded just like the real person her character represented. There was no mention of clear mental illness, obviously, but that may have played a part in getting her the role.

When I was young and didn’t understand that when wheel bearings make noise they’re already gone I had that happen. No one was hurt though. The bearing shook the wheel so hard the nuts loosened up, then when the wheel got some room to move it sheared off all the studs. Front wheel in my case and thankfully not in…

I don’t see how the industry has been disrupted for anyone but her. No one else can rerecord old albums and expect anyone to buy them, let alone hit the top of the charts. She’s managed to leverage her popularity to get as much money as possible at the expense of both the industry and her fans but there’s only a…

Anyone can tour in a van, it’s how big Mom and Dad’s house is and if they’ll pick up the phone when the van breaks down, that makes the difference. It looks like her father is a former banker who is now the chairman of a venture capital backed bioscience company and her mother, a former Crown prosecutor, now mostly…

Can we have pseudoephedrine back now? What with the opioid epidemic if methheads start cooking with it again it’ll probably be safer for them than shooting crank cut with fentanyl.

Keeping in check? Just sorting out who’s a loose cannon, who’s a maverick and who’s a cop with nothing to lose takes until lunch. Then you’ve got to figure out which cop who’s one day from retirement to partner them with for one last bust.

Questions about truthfulness and the ethics of supporting a friend convicted of a horrible crime aside, why can’t actual actors pull off a better apology video? There’s you, there’s a camera and there’s a script or at least a list of key phrases your publicist told you to hit. How is this different than your usual…

The guy who played Bill did a decent Southern accent. The woman who played Sookie’s Black friend as well. Hers might have been her real voice it was so good. Not so for Paquin and most of the rest of the cast. Theirs were terrible and a big part of the reason I stopped watching with my wife back in the day. The guy…

Someday Cyclops is going to be used as a 2nd amendment poster boy. "He's always carrying so why can't I" or something equally moronic.

The bottom of the ocean or the interior of the earth are cheaper and safer places to build colonies than space or the surface of an airless moon. Besides having little to no access to the essentials of life they’re directly exposed to extreme cold, extreme heat and massive radiation.

Since audits are for back taxes that could extend many years into the past the amount of revenue recovered could not be considered as an addition to total annual revenue. I’m sure they can figure out what the increase would be if the people audited pay their taxes properly going forward but it will be a lot less than…

Why are we even trying to go to the moon again? More dick measuring with other countries? We’ll never live there. We might let a colony choke to death on their own waste but that’s about it. It’s only value is as a weapons platform and we are forbidden by treaty from doing that. Hopefully this is a backdoor way to get…

I think you mean the Department of Defense can't pass an audit. Although maybe Justice is over budget too. 

I’m pretty sure that was the Caesarian calendar. The Gregorian innovation was to eliminate leap days in years that would otherwise have one but were century or millennium years ending in multiple zeroes. Without discarding those the calendar would run ahead since the extra fraction of a day is slightly less than a…

Apparently they did write the lyrics, just the voices are generated. So you don't need to put writer in quotes. "Musician" however...