Does tax law mandate douchebaggery, or is it optional?

I'm personally looking forward to marching through mud. It sounds like an experience everyone should have.

If we control everything, why am I a member of the proletariat?

Have I actually located another human being who doesn't like Sandman? If so, welcome to our tribe of two!

If something's halal, I consider it kosher. But I'm kind of crappy about paying attention to the food rules, so there's that.

Yea, it never means that in the US. If it means that somewhere else, I would like to know of it so I can possibly move there someday.

'Immaculately groomed'? You've seen Daryl, right?

I'm sure Mel Gibson will show up at some point to be horribly killed.

I love the Irish.

I have one of those masks. In my defense, it's part of a Halloween costume. If I were going to take part in a black bloc, I'd prefer not to have a piece of plastic obstructing my breathing and peripheral vision.

Where are the AV Club reviews of Elementary? That show is still good.

No, this was in New Mexico. I think the paranoia goes hand-in-hand with police no longer regarding themselves as "civilians." They damn well are civilians, not soldiers fighting a war, but this distinction is being lost. I think some of them did and do view their community as hostile territory in need of pacification.

Getting into a shootout with the police is about the worst possible approach to the problem. It retroactively justifies anything they might choose to do (remember Waco?).

The cops I used to work with were absolutely trained to be paranoid. Based on some of what I heard, I was kind of surprised they ever made it out their front doors in anything other than full tactical gear.

As a friendly (because we were sort of colleagues at the time) SVU detective advised me once, "Never talk to the police." If they're interested in you, that's not good, and they're allowed to use any tactic they like to get you to talk as long as it doesn't "shock the conscience." (Whose conscience we're talking about…

In a recent poll, 4% of Americans indicated that they had been decapitated. It's a lot more common than I thought.

True. I've seen worse.

If only your bunk could talk.

I've been informed that if you live in Ohio, it can.

The irony of Brit Hume criticizing someone's looks.