He owned a rocketship in the original series, in which he was a more blue collar version of Han Solo - which, yeah, it's Jack Burton with more anger and a ringtail.

I like to think that this sort of post is the true endpoint of Edward R Murrow's dream of an elevated and elevating television.

Second grade was the swearing time for me.

Wow, you got the death penalty at the high school level?

My high school was so infamously bad at football that when - during my freshman year - we beat a school their coach committed suicide the next night. I'm certain there were other things going on his life besides the shame, but the timing is hard to deny.

I read one AVClub article today, one, and here it is with Tarkovskys_former_AD emerging from the woods like a unicorn. And I had a sweet job interview. Truly this is the day of days.

It might make taking that person on as an ally or cause legitimately less attractive, though.

I don't recall too many people labeling Joseph C Wilson naive. His whistleblowing seemed to me to be equally significant and while horrible ridiculous shit did happen to him and his family as a result, the entire context for that shit and the counter-reaction to it couldn't be more different.

There are some other good ones - I think Aquaman has turned into a sort of stealth triumph - but nothing really in her category that has any link to the main universe and/or hasn't been cancelled.

There are some other good one's but Wonder Woman is doing so well I'm sad they aren't linking more titles to it.

I'm a registered Republican, but I live in a one party state so really it's just that I like voting (in any meaningful sense of the term).

A speech that eerily mirrors some of the grimmest speeches from Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War!

Eh, blatant (seeming) contradiction have always been the bread and butter of American politics.

Now you can wear a special chain mail glove while catfisting, but it's not recommended since the glove will numb the sensation of having put your hand in a beaver hole.

Man, wouldn't that be nice? Ah, Mercia, we hardly knew ya.

Ah yes, I recall in my teenage years that Sonic was - functionally - a giant 50s themed Cocaine distribution franchise.

It's from the Reformation near as I can tell. People got all hopped up on the Elect and Belief. In the Middle Ages and Classical period, Christians were pretty clear on the 'shitty, shitty stuff is going to happen to us - and everyone else! - in this veil of tears' thing.

The worst was the day I dropped off a friend there after watching Django  Unchained. The hours of Exploitified Wagnerian Southern Gothic combined with the mewling sounds of his loss of that night's pillow pit race to create the most existential of hangovers.

I can't imagine that there aren't people who don't try to shortcut around google maps and such.

I had friends who created a pillow pit!