I used to love these kinds of games as a kid, but when I try to play them as an adult it's like 2 minutes of fun followed by X minutes of 'I should really find a better use of my time.'

I liked the one where people could vote whether or not the Trix rabbit should get to have some Trix, and people were like, Yes, let the fucking rabbit have some Trix already, he obviously really, really wants some Trix.

Chili peppers are technically berries. Coffee beans are the seeds of the coffee plant, which is a flower. Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cocoa plant, which is a fruit. Honey is kind of like bee vomit. Zucchinis are the swollen ovary of the zucchini flower. Cinnamon is tree bark. M&Ms are the spores of the iminum…

Yeah, as nostalgic as I sometimes am for the physical-browsing days, and as much as I think that brick-and-mortar record stores are a good and important thing to have in the world, the abundance of free music on the internet really has been a wonderful, world-changing godsend for me. I know I'm not alone in that.

It did not ping, but this one did. Thanks!

OK, to be non-sarcastic about it: there are a lot of variables at play here, and there's also only so much that any one movement can achieve (from what I've observed of activist movements and organizations, the most effective ones tend to be the ones that focus on individual issues, rather than try to take on multiple…

General note: I've been involved - either directly or in some peripheral way - with a number of progressive protest-based movements these last many years: anti-globalization marches, Iraq war protests, Occupy, etc. And, in my opinion, Black Lives Matter has been way more effective and influential than any of the…

Reagan raised taxes.

Serious inquiry alert: Genuinely curious to read more about the aftermath of that bizarre occupation. Any good links you can offer?

You know what bugs me? Organizations that are trying to cure lung cancer. Because, car crashes also kill a lot of people. If these lung cancer charities were really concerned about saving lives, they'd also try and do something about car crashes.

This movie sounds an awful lot like a piece of pandering, ineptly-made propaganda, but apparently one of the film's 6 credited producers also worked on Jurassic Park, so that must mean… it… isn't…?

Are you talking about Emilia Clarke? Because I think she handles her role admirably. I'm not too fond of Harington but I think that the character of Jon Snow is also just too blandly heroic - it would take a lot of vision for an actor to be able to make that character into something truly compelling.

Jenny McCarthy would forego the cootie-catcher, insisting that cooties can only be cured through mommy love.

Everyone knows that you can't vaccinate for cooties - you have to capture them after the fact with a cootie-catcher.

I've read that the big toy companies do some very strict compartmentalizing in regards to gender - like, there're the girl toys and the boy toys, and never the twain shall meet. So, that means they don't want to make boy toys that could conceivably appeal to girls as well, because then the boy toys are essentially…

The image of Cersei Lannister sitting on the floor joyfully playing with her new Ghostbusters toys is an oddly pleasant one.

Or, Republicans embracing "American Woman," with lyrics like "I don't need your war machines / I don't need your ghetto scenes / Colored lights can hypnotize / Sparkle someone else's eyes;" or, similarly, "American Girl," which is seemingly a song about sex and suicide. But in all fairness, a lot of people embrace the…

The first one that came to my mind is Charles Burnett's 'To Sleep With Anger,' but that's about Satan in a kind of abstract, elliptical way.

My own true Angel Heart story is that my easily-angered, mercurial grandfather - who was raised in a highly religious household and nourished a deep-seated contempt for all things religious (he came to think of religion in general as irrational, oppressive crap) - rented it one night hoping that it would be a…

Gary Busey: Scary Abuse-y