I'm actually amused the London game is on Yahoo sports. Underscores that this game isn't about US (us?). It's about China and Europe.

Yup. The four D's of Russian propaganda- dismiss, distort, distract, dismay.

"A coincidence? I don't think so!"

Yes. As we all know, Russia is totally only fighting IS in Syria and it was a Ukrainian space alien who shot down MH17 with a high-powered laser.

Conspiracy theories resound in the post-Soviet space. Russian TV has documentaries claiming that the moon landing is a fake. I had a Russian-born professor who in every other way was a middle-aged, mild-mannered professor type, but she had us practice our interpretation skills with a Russian TV doc about HAARP…

And kto vinovat? But really, Russia and, shall we say, the less westernized parts of the post-Soviet space are were conspiracies are real and governments have no problem treating their citizens like garbage. See the 2000 apartment bombings, Nord-Ost, the botched response to Beslan, etc.

A co-worker and I were hired around the same time for a customer service job. He, at the interview, was offered a choice of working in the logistics department. I wasn't, even though the position was still open and I had more experience relevant to logistics than he did.
Again, it's not that I know 100% for sure that…

PEDANT ALERT: the mercury in fish is methyl mercury. The mercury in thimerosal is ethyl mercury. Both are different from elemental mercury. And thimerosal hasn't been used in vaccines since the early 90s in this country, I think.

Please tell me you get presents from your crows, Mrs. Teti! http://www.bbc.com/news/mag…

Every time CitizenFour is mentioned is another time journalism dies again.

Gah! This isn't about the 1st Amendment; I wish all articles that mention censorship/self-censorship would be censored from saying that. It's lazy and direly inaccurate shorthand.

I am but an underfed tree weighed down by a ball of John's disdain.

I'm class of '05, after the IRN restrictions and when everyone thought it was cool to not go home on the weekends (I still stayed).

Just look at Mrs. Teti, blowing the system of the "gentleman's F" out of the water.

"Fuck You Aurora" was the unofficial theme song for my high school (IMSA, for those of you who get it). I still feel overwhelmingly 15 whenever I hear the Maybe I'll Catch Fire album. Alkaline Trio was never my favorite band, but it will always be a hallmark of the 90s-00s white suburban Chicago teen.

My criticisms of this book are mainly due to how often it invokes Lacan (even indulging in paragraphs describing his theories). But I thought the conversation of feeling oneself or choosing to live as another culture or race was well-done, if a bit clumsy at times.

Looks like they got a real Russian to write the Russian dialogue for this one, which gives me hope for the rest of the series.

Alaska just seems so uninspired compared with other finale locations. I'm sure there's a culinary scene, but if TC can't even bother to show it to me, why should I care?

From the way Gail described the texture of Sheldon's bread, it sounded like his didn't rise correctly. Sourdough bread is WAY more of an art than other kinds of bread.

I cheered while watching when Josh was told he shouldn't have used bacon.