@eric827:disqus Courts are really resistant to correlating "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" with any sort of percentage.  Instead, they try to frame it as something like, "would a reasonable person have sufficient doubts about the defendant's guilt not to convict?" Now, that probably doesn't really help, since it's…

Ooh, my junior year US History teacher decided he wanted to show us "North and South" during the section on the Civil War.  Except, it's like eight hours, so instead he edited it down to like an hour and a half.  We were constantly asking questions like, "Who is that?" and he'd just say, "Oh, don't worry about her;…

Aww, man, we never got to watch movies in my typing class.  Now I feel doubly cheated (the first cheated was because the year after I took the class, they replaced all the typewriters with computers).

We definitely watched something like that during the same Spanish class, but it was so long ago I can't remember the details.

I'm not super into the Will Farrell movies and I found it pretty entertaining.  The gay panic jokes get a little old, but there's a lot of great stuff in there.

I'm not super into the Will Farrell movies and I found it pretty entertaining.  The gay panic jokes get a little old, but there's a lot of great stuff in there.

Or the underrated Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Or the underrated Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Yeah, I vaguely recall it being a big deal that Kirsten Dunst lost to the poor team from the inner city or wherever.

Grab your winter coats, kids, we're going to Canada's warmest city!

Grab your winter coats, kids, we're going to Canada's warmest city!

Toe pick!

One year, my Spanish teacher had a mental breakdown in like October and had to be replaced.  We had random subs for like six weeks, during which time we watched a metric crap ton of movies in English with Spanish subtitles.  All sorts of stuff—Man of La Mancha, Dumb & Dumber, etc.  Eventually they found this…

Night is a very dark time for me.

Night is a very dark time for me.

You could tell something bad was going to happen to his family from the way he kept saying stuff like, "No one will ever hurt us—I have a gold medal!"

You could tell something bad was going to happen to his family from the way he kept saying stuff like, "No one will ever hurt us—I have a gold medal!"

Let's just agree that "Never Let Me Down" is the worst Bowie album.  The stuff before it is on a decline and after it stuff slowly gets better until the brilliance of Heathen and Reality.  But there's just not too much to like about NLMD.

Let's just agree that "Never Let Me Down" is the worst Bowie album.  The stuff before it is on a decline and after it stuff slowly gets better until the brilliance of Heathen and Reality.  But there's just not too much to like about NLMD.

The funny story about Blackstone is that he wanted the position of Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, but was passed over in favor of someone no one has ever heard of; instead, they decided to give him the brand-spanking new position of Vinerian Professor of English Law. Blackstone's Commentaries were the result of the…