Citation, please.

Don't worry about it. There's no correlation between rate of use of cell phones in cars and accident rates. It pisses people off, though, and they need a way to justify their anger, hence the widespread pretending it's dangerous.

And who better to tell us about the virtues to be gleaned from an experienced orthographer than a guy who thinks extraneous umlauts are funny?

@Cliffy:disqus : Vaccines are a good thing, but let's not lose our balance on the issue. "Reckless encouragement of killing children" is overheated rhetoric. How about something like "negligent failure to protect children from fatal disease"? That's still pretty strong and much more defensible. And I say this as…

Look everyone! Elegant Victorian Lady sighting!

Deadpan Dolores: go on.

I'm 50 and I'm not even clear what A7X is. It's an abbreviation of Avenged Sevenfold, right? Which is something related to music somehow?

Thank you for sharing.

Everyone hates popular companies.

It can be two things.

Has anyone considered the possibility that he doesn't know what "risible" means?

They were wearing Gucci trenchcoats because The Matrix had just reached Kronos.

Youtube link fail.

Why can't I remember this?!

Counterpoint on "optimistic" being a problem:

True. When you try to do something original, we get Pacific Rim.

I would watch the shit out of that.

Q is like the Saturday Night Live sketch version of Trelaine. Something that was fun for a bit, carried on way too long.

I'm a big Trek fan, and I agree that these are just dumb space action movies. However, I also happen to like dumb space action movies.

Liked for username/comment synergy.