I feel like now when I listen to Leonard Cohen's Last Year's Man and he intones,"like the shy one at some orgy" all I am going to see are ducklings.

Of course this is all nonsense. Everyone knows you at least have to pluck out the feathers.

His mind was being controlled.

Or possibly one of those spambot text generators?

[startled high-pitched laughter]

Meh, good movies can come from not-great books. It depends how closely they adapt it. I love Kubrick's The Shining, but cannot stand spending more than a couple of paragraphs in Stephen King's sordid-yet-sentimental little brain.

This is such an amazing idea! I love it.

I want to know if the ARK music people actually make money off these videos once they come out and blow up. If so, seriously, I suspect these people are marketing geniuses. Like, take money from silly people to make videos of their untalented progeny being completely ridiculous, in a format that is guaranteed to get…

This pleases me greatly.

Pretty sure he misheard them, and they just said "trains". Because only then does anything make sense.

Oh, I like this idea! She could do montages of their previous lives, with sad, ominous music, using surveillance videos and stuff taken off social media.

In our early twenties, a male friend used to invite girls back his place to watch TPB, and it almost always got him laid. It wasn't super premeditated or anything. It was more like his fallback. But it ALWAYS worked.

I think teenagers should be allowed to wear whatever they want. Only they should be confronted with the photographic evidence at some clearly defined point in the not-so-distant future so they can cringe like the rest of us.

It is vigilantism. And the problem is the same problem with all vigilantes, that they can go too far, that no-one is checking them, that this does nothing to rehabilitate the wrongdoers or get to the root of the problem. And like a lot of vigilantism, it can also seem awesome, because there are no authorities…

It's become like the air that they breathe. It's a big part of how they socialize, and if you force your kid not to participate, you are, in effect, ostracizing them. So I am not sure what the solution is, other than openness and dialogue.

Oh fun! And then, after a long day of wagging their fingers at the silly men they work with, they can go home and shake their heads lovingly over that pot of chili Dad spattered all over the stove top. Thank goodness for paper towels and cleaning products! Because men are like children, and women are their mothers.

Well, that's disturbing.

My four-year-old could totally draw that.

Yeah, I can see that. This is not a zero-sum game, and it is important to acknowledge female-to-male violence. Also violence between same sex couples. I know that sometimes feminists can be dismissive of female-to-male abuse, and I do not agree with it. I can tell that sometimes it comes as a reaction, a suspicion…