Also, people are different and outcomes are not always determined by upbringing.  Like how some children of alcoholics turn out fine and some turn out to be royal fuckups.

I'm not that old but we actually had a party lineup until I was 8 or so, because we lived in the sticks and the phone company didn't want to install private lines.  I think the government finally forced phone companies to install them.  Anyway, it was kind of entertaining when I was 8 and could listen in on the…

Needs more booty.

You sound fun.

Yeah I don't care for their "don't be gay and go to our church" requirements, but they're also the only outfit in the town I live in that provides services for the homeless, including shelter.  A few years ago someone started another shelter that didn't care what church you went to, but they got run out of town by the…

Who?

You leave pork rinds out of this!

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out the books + series.  I read Graves' "Goodbye to All That" for a WWI class and it was fascinating.  I read some of his poetry after that and his war poems are very good, the rest is pretty awful.

Stayed up to welcome the Jayhawks back to Lawrence — Final Four!!!!  I'll catch up on all the shows I've DVR'd after the tourney.

Idiocracy was a good 2/3 of a movie that kind of went off the rails in the last act, but the last act is not bad enough to ruin the movie.

Which is why the Red Hot Chili Peppers cover of Yertle the Turtle is AWESOME.

I read somewhere that he jealously guarded film rights before his death, which is why all these shitty, shitty, shitty film adaptations have came out after he died.  Because apparently his estate couldn't wait to shit all over his legacy.  Maybe he was a terrible father.  Or maybe they just like money.

Yeah but she's the kind of Blandy McBlanderson who likes that shit.  Probably want to go to Appelebee's before.

But if we weren't hypercritical then we wouldn't get to wade through four paragraphs of pretentious analysis before the review even mentions the actual episode!

Agreed, and that's what's so disappointing to me.  I watch highlights and it seems like everyone in the NBA can drain 3-pointers at will AND throw down sick dunks effortlessly, so the NBA *should* be fun to watch.

Tinky tinky tinky!!!

Thanks to google translate I LOLed.

This is as good a place to ask as any:  Can anyone recommend any books on how the NBA evolved into the disgrace that it is today?  I've done a little searching now and then but I haven't found an honest look at the last ~20 years or so of the league.

The thought of randomly yelling that at skinny jeans just gave me a giggle fit that was probably out of proportion.  Thank you.

Fuck yeah.