It seems like this stage-managed “realness” is pretty much the realest information you are going to get about a famous person. The next step down the chain is the confessional, tell-all memoir about how it all went horribly wrong or whatever, and that’s going to be a horrible slog which is still riddled with…

After watching Cracker I got into the habit of saying “Fine, Judith” to my wife in the manner of the put-upon titular character. It’s gotten to the point where we both say it so much that our friends do it too, without knowing the source material.

Why not create an “alternative” instagram for adults, like the good old alternative press?  If IG wants to be mainstream, let ‘em, and give people who want something different another image feed to look at.  The challenge would be to make it cool and not seedy.

Here’s the thing - it takes a mere 10 seconds to grab a bundle of silverware from the next table, but it’s sometimes going to take a few minutes to flag the server. (I mean, if they are right there, of course I’ll ask.) EVEN IF this event creates a chain reaction that cascades through the whole restaurant as you …

And if they don’t get to it (or don’t know because a CUSTOMER did it which is usually what happens), the next guy grabs from another table, and the next guy, and the next guy.

But hands off the silverware, glasses and napkins...some one has to reset them. So you’re just making extra work for the staff.

These are different things and I can be upset about both of them in different ways...

Yeah, the cops get a little too excited about “finding the motive” sometimes. The guy’s string of priors for violent behavior in the same mall tell you everything you need to know, we don’t need the exact flavor of bullshit he was spewing.

My own “I can’t believe they are this stupid” moment happened on this site, when someone was rhapsodizing about his childhood and hunting with his dad and claimed it was unfair that I wanted to “erase” all of those memories. Unfortunately, the incident that sparked this discussion was the Jason Dalton case, an uber…

I mean, if I saw this tweet without context I would assume it was satirical, since this is something critics of the NRA point out all the time.

I don’t blame the airlines for the seat recline “problem”. I blame selfish and/or clueless people...

At least in skimming the article it looks like it’s not one of those hostile takeovers by some conservative douchebag, so that’s good?

Pitchfork is posting about this too. Apparently one of the answers was “What is Pitchfork” so there’s that.

Like, almost EVERYONE has encountered someone who is some shade of this - whether it be a bad boss or a school bully or just a general stubborn idiot you have to work with.

And what is that bullshit they say about cops being held “to a higher standard”?

Not knowing which weapon is in hand? How on FSM’s noodly Earth does a trained officer do that?

Alas, dems in Congress aren’t smart enough...

Anyhoo, I took a little time to poke around some of the sources I was reading back in the day, when I went off to college and started researching the Watchtower society. Found a ref to baby-making and divorce which is similar to what I described, in Raymond Franz’s book Crisis of Conscience. Franz was a member of the…

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Yeah I guess that’s fair. :) Weirdly my main sources for pop culture news (new york times, avclub and pitchfork) really didn’t touch the JW angle as far as I remember.  It’s not like I wasn’t interested.