How else are you going to get the pickled onion juice?

The thing I've never really understood about all that is that it's not difficult to make condoms kind of fun. It's a tight slick object you wrap around a penis, right? I don't think you need to be a Sex Wizard to find a way to make that at least a little bit rewarding.

My partner of coming on 11 years now and I were broken up for two of those years. It was a really good decision. Not that it was all sweetness and light, it was a fairly acrimonious split (complicated, but basically I cheated), we were out of touch for a while, hooked up a few times disastrously, stopped doing that…

Wrap a thick elastic band around the top!

I don't think you're wrong about the randomness and absurdity of world history, but at the same time I really do think that 2000 is a good example of what we're talking about this election - there was some mostly nonsensical dislike of Gore in the air, and some quite rational disgust with the centre-left politics of…

I'm pretty sure they're talking about that thing where you've stupidly poisoned the pokemon you're trying to catch and you're really worried it's going to die before you get it.

This makes me concerned about Jigglypuff, honestly.

Would you be okay with a poison-type preparing your food? Driving your Uber? Being president?

Hey man. It's a tough job and he works long hours, especially now that you're out chasing Pokemon all evening. The last thing you need is to deal with a union complaint for creating a hostile work environment.

I just fixed mine by, as someone suggested, logging in to my ordinary disqus account (which I never use) while I was logged in to the AV Club, and then checking and reloading my notifications. So hopefully that'll keep working if it happens again. But yeah, seems like a bug, which is a relief.

& even if he was (for some inexplicable reason and against all the evidence) reaching for his gun, while pinned on the ground by a cop, I feel like an even halfway reasonably trained police officer should have a way to keep control of that situation without murdering anyone.

On the one hand, I'm glad I'm not the only one it's happening to. On the other hand, I've been hoping it was a bug, so yeah.

I think what that is things like poverty having significantly more influence on the murder rate than temperature. Who knows, also seems possible that the temperature correlation gets reversed when you get to places where it's too cold to go outside or do anything for a big chunk of the year and people go stir crazy.

I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. That's a terrible thing to happen. We could have a long discussion, I'm sure, about the criminal justice system and rehabilitation and gun control, and maybe even link it back to how things like that happen in the context of norms of violence between police and the populace…

I work with police on a day to day basis, and for sure most are conscientious and hardworking. But it's pretty undeniable in the states right now that police forces murder non-white people (and especially African Americans) at astounding rates, with minimal accountability. Something is deeply wrong with policing in a…

… they didn't even vaguely say that every cop is a racist?

To me, the key to understanding the Clinton email thing is that the State Department's email system is elderly and famously terrible. All modern secretaries and their staffs have had to work around it one way or another, and of course the difficulties with it have only gotten worse as it's gotten older. Seems very…

I think Sworn to the Sword is one of the best episodes of television I've seen in any genre (all the more so because of how much it packs into 11 minutes), and I've often wondered if it would work as an initial entry point for the skeptical. I feel like maybe, but certainly with the Lion entries as context.

I agree. It'd also generally damage the project of preventing and uncovering wrongful convictions.

Well, no, of course not.