There was, as I remember, a similar lock-down in OKC after the bombing there in 1995.  But Timothy McVeigh was long gone by then.  He was only apprehended because he was driving north on I-35 toward Kansas, but didn't have a license plate on his car, so a cop pulled him over.

She was awful, and ruined far more lives than the Boston bombers did, but celebrating her death when she'd been out of power for over 20 years is petty and corrosive to a civil society.  It would have been much better for people to have ginned up a more effective political opposition to her while she was in political…

"it was a permanent void of compassion for people they hate"

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are the very definition of "Caucasian," so they're white by anyone's definition.  They just weren't born in America, and don't have Anglo-Saxon names, so they don't count as "white" in the colloquial sense of "all-American" or "boy next-door" (though, undoubtedly, they lived next door to…

It didn't take long for racism to become part of it, eh?  The great irony, of course, is that if the word "Caucasian" is to have any meaning at all as a racial term, these two guys were the very definition of it.

@BobbyBrownGoesDown:disqus , and apparently Bostonians can say "fuck" on TV now, without the FCC getting upset!

"If the threat is over, great but it's not really a time for celebration."

@avclub-21a8615938a206d4311a58a53ad8890e:disqus , in a perfectly representative democracy, column A and column B would overlap exactly.

"This doesn't seem like a huge problem if you use your brain."

@avclub-ec26fc2eb2b75aece19c70392dc744c2:disqus : Remember?  I'm planning a big, 20th-Anniversary bash next summer!

Those nifty graphics and specially composed ominous theme song for the event don't come cheap!

I would have watched it all unfold in Boston, but I live 1000 miles away.

"Heh, you might say, I'm Iraqi."

Your opening reminded me of that alien robot thing on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  "Thousands of years ago…"

I wonder if the singing stayed with him longer than normal conversational speech.  I ask this, because I know that different parts of the brain seem to be employed for singing and talking.  That's according to noted amateur neurologist Mel Tillis, who stutters when he talks, but doesn't stutter at all when he sings. …

That is good.  I remember when this tour started, and I thought it was ghoulish and irresponsible at the time.  But it seems like he wasn't as far along back then as I thought, and that the people who care about him are taking better care of him and this whole situation than I gave them credit for.

@avclub-75e43c12ef9f1cfdaeae92ca6fa90640:disqus , about the whorehouses, I wouldn't take my grandmother's word for it.

Colorado Kool-Aid!  I never understood why people were so nuts to get ahold of Coors back then, but I heard about people making a special effort to get it across state lines.  Maybe bottled water wasn't available everywhere back then, so they just needed something light and refreshing for the hot summer months.

That would probably be easiest (couldn't Disqus just mirror our posts or [insert some other computer-jargon term here that basically means copy-and-paste], to help us out?).

I'm gonna add any gun manufacturers whose products jam or misfire at inopportune moments in movies.  I'm thinking especially of the Libyan's AK-47 in Back to the Future, and Will Munny's shotgun in the climactic gunfight of Unforgiven.  I'm sure there are other examples.  Didn't Victor Spinetti's character complain…