Yeah….he was almost too pretty, but somehow he managed to be masculine enough to pull off being pretty standard pre-Raphaelite.

He's also batshit fucking crazy enough to actually make Rush Limbaugh look somewhat reasonable. He's banned from the UK just because he's such an asshole.

Forgive the pedantry, but pederasts only go after boys.

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus I hope it didn't do any damage, but it still seems a bit unfair.

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus yeeees…but that doesn't mean it's ok to bring Kazakhstan to Western attention through a made-up character who doesn't embody anything related to Kazakhstan. Why punish Kazakhstan because Americans are ignorant rednecks? And wouldn't the point be even better served if…

Firstie or no, I'm still consumed with jealousy, @avclub-2d31cb28609a0ccb044e798fe73c023a:disqus

Just because there are amendments that really ought to be unnecessary doesn't mean we should add more. It's unfortunate that the 13th actually needed to be there, but it did. I don't think that's the case for marriage equality; it's getting passed state by state at a pretty good rate, and with any luck SCOTUS will do…

I've always wondered why Sascha Baron Cohen felt the need to use an actual country for Borat. Couldn't he have made one up? It's not like most of the people he interviewed/accosted for the show would have known the difference, and it's not like he was actually satirizing Kazaks. Choosing to make his supremely…

Yeah, it sounds delightful. I'm definitely going to check it out. Sounds like a perfect antidote to winter, which is still going on for some reason.

@SteveMcRib:disqus the Constitution isn't like regular legislation where you have to allow that a certain amount of stupid crap is necessary to get a law passed. Something should not be written into the Constitution unless it has a damn good reason to be there, and pandering to a bunch of homophobes' patently…

Honestly, I don't think a constitutional amendment is necessary at all. Normal legislation should be able to take care of this. And since marriage equality isn't something that people really backslide on, it's not likely that anyone will successfully mount a campaign to take people's rights away once they've been…

A constitutional amendment that says churches would never be forced to marry anyone they don't want to is redundant and therefore unnecessary. As for the two-person limit…is there some great clamor of people wanting polygamy? Why go through the trouble of a passing a constitutional amendment for something that's not…

I disagree that a show in which the participants have a goal of some sort is inherently better than one in which people just scream at each other. Having a decent concept doesn't mean the show's creators have the brains or creativity to turn it into something good, and from what I hear some of the…

I don't think Ryan was being dismissive of diving as a sport. That's why he felt sorry for the judges. Diving is difficult and takes years of training, and it sounds this show is not emphasizing that.

That's a shame. Changing total strangers' religion is the only thing that gives me joy.

Wait, do they ban hot drinks in general, or just caffeinated ones? And if it's chilled and nonalcoholic, is it okay? Because you can chill ANYTHING. Can Mormons drink shit like Red Bull?

My official major in college was just plain History, but I did the make your own specialty thing too. I was lucky to have a really wonderful military historian at my school, and he helped me to form my own little curriculum. I specialized in the beginnings of the modern army in Europe (Thirty Years' War was my primary…

Yeah, that pissed me off, too. When I click on an article that is explicitly about the author's personal love for a particular song and how it's part of his life, I do not want to read some horseshit screed about how he thinks his 6 month old baby is the first child to respond to auditory stimuli! It's almost like the…

"I think she liked how the song gleefully collides tempos and styles,
bouncing between fast, synth-laden Big Boi raps and slow-jam R&B
with Patti LaBelle vocals. The changes, particularly when the song
lurches from slow to fast, really seemed to hook her—along with my
ridiculous dancing, which made her giggle."

Yes, but wouldn't it be so lovely if he stopped?