Am I supposed to be laughing at the intense cruelty or the responses to the intense cruelty or the…what am I supposed to be laughing at here?

…and then throughout the rest of the game goons talk about how that cowardly weakling Bruce Wayne must be dead by now.

That doesn't make sense. Is it possible he meant "romance" in the original sense of "pertaining to the Roman Empire"? Did the meme in question use a non Latin-based font that might, in the eyes of this poster, have signified an abandonment of the classical heritage?

This is in fact an awkwardly edited mishmash of several DVD features that have been released over the years and Emilia Clarke auditioning for an unrelated project. (Or maybe she brought a monologue from an unrelated project to her audition?) I have only myself to blame for clicking on it.

If Bobby was able to go through middle school that comfortable in his own skin despite enormous pressure from all sides to be somebody else, I think he'll be able to deal with the rest of life just fine. His unlikely confidence was one of the many, many things that made the show so endearing.

Not to mention that she's a generous, funny, kind person who stuck it out in the entertainment industry for decades before finally getting a break in her late 40s. That takes almost superhuman persistence. She's been a comedian since the 80s, and to get served this heaping pile of bullshit upon appearing in her…

Fortunately for Fox, thanks to Ailes polluting politics with his bile for twenty years there are now plenty of even more odious folk who can slide in and take his place without anyone noticing a change.

I just find it amusing that in a book that is supposed to be about the entire history of English-speaking people he spends SO much time talking about the US Civil War. It's like he just saw Gone With the Wind and had to tell the world how cool it was.

That's definitely the best case version of the South winning. Their goal initially wasn't to simply have their own nation of bigoted assholes. When they started the war, "winning" meant spreading slavery to the entire west, conquering Mexico and the Caribbean and spreading slavery there, and promoting "popular…

In kindergarten or first grade a kid invited me over to his house, promising that he had "tons of Ghostbusters toys." Of course when I arrived he had all the Filmation Ghostbusters toys, and acted like this was the most natural thing in the world. At first I tried to explain that these weren't Ghostbusters, but when…

Definitely had an interesting style, sort of a "grotesque realism." A bit similar to EC Comics illustrations, which is appropriate for stories about characters being subjected to brutal eternal torments for no real reason.

That guy's life story is probably pretty interesting.

The creation of these things is shrouded in secrecy, but I always felt like there had to be more than one artist at work. The intensely realistic ones just seem so stylistically different from the more cartoony ones. This would mean there are actually multiple Jack Chicks out there, which is disturbing to think…

It's horrifying on so many levels. I was always disturbed how after the character converted to Christianity became blonde haired, blue-eyed automatons and lost any previous identity. As a young child I remember stumbling on one and being terrified someone would come and convert me.

The tracts that explain how the King James Bible is the only legitimate text and even the oldest Greek texts are the work of Satan are particularly fun. He creates this elaborate, centuries-spanning backstory explaining how God hid his true message until he had the opportunity to deliver it to a bunch of 17th century…

To the hydrofoil!!

Not to exacerbate your fears, but speaking anecdotally as a straight guy I'm not sure I've ever known another straight guy who didn't say at least one wildly sexist thing when there were no women present. When men get together there's still a lot of pressure to score laughs off dumb, horrible jokes, so it's entirely…

Every time I wonder what my parents' take on an issue like this might be I realize I'm better off not knowing. Of course my parents watch Fox News on TV and listen to Mark Levine on the radio simultaneously every night, so your mileage may vary.

Apparently this was actually one of the last things he said before leaving the White House that night, though it was more of a casual remark to a dinner guest and probably lacked full John Williams orchestration.

They actually made several additional books after that to cover subsequent seasons, I have at least two, and there's a giant 20 season hardback book as well. But yes, for me that book is the classic era dividing line. Anything after "Secret War" will always be "New Simpsons" as far as I'm concerned.