The ads want so so badly for me to find it outrageous, but I just grow to hate it more with every viewing.

@avclub-bc68599029928a93ff775e686c3be325:disqus Can't spell crap without rap, amiiiriite?

Also, never underestimate the suppressed sex drive of nerds once unleashed into the wild together. One friend of mine got assigned to the "dry' dorm on campus during her freshman year of college, which was pretty exclusively dominated by slightly strange but well-meaning nerd folk of the most hardcore variety. By all…

A lot of it depends pretty heavily on the political environment and context of the times and dominant power structures. The last 30 years of US history in particular, which have been dominated in many regards by a neo-liberal mentality, haven't exactly provided ripe fodder for conservative satire since they've been…

For me the right way to approach a movie about bomber crews is to basically shape it in a similar fashion as a submarine film. The tight quarters, close crew relationships and seeming inevitability of danger and possible death and the  (as well laid out in Catch-22) can I think make for compelling drama and…

There's a book on this subject "War without Mercy" which is worth reading and covers much of the territory you describe. I'd agree in theory with some reservations, in that I feel as though the racism endemic to the American and British experience in the Pacific tended to present itself more with regards to action the…

I'd have to give the slight edge to Band of Brothers over The Pacific myself, though both are superb. Namely, I think the former series has a more tightly constructed narrative, and while I admire what the Pacific was aiming for the breadth of its focus sometimes made it seem as though they got in over their heads.

I remember reading once that of Soviet males born in 1923, who would have been 18 in 1941, only 20% would survive the war. Pretty damn hard to come up with a more sobering statistic than that.

I don't know anything about Scharpling and if he has a following I'm sure there are worthwhile elements of his show but holy god no podcast needs to be three hours particularly one with as lethargic a pace as this one.

A spiritual awakening brought by that sweet Laurel Canyon sound.

…and destroys her too.

His (soul) was dead the whole time!

It's pretty amazing. My recent favorite in the escapades of Biden is definitely his convention speech about the 'summer of 87', “the skirts were short, the brews were cold, and you couldn’t walk 2 feet without stepping into some grade-A tang.”

As bad as Caracalla was you're just on the verge of things truly spiraling down the shitter in Roman history. So, prepare yourself for about 100 years of complete dickery and incompetence on a scale that would offend even the cast of Game of Thrones.

The NRA hasn't shown any signs of change for over 10 seasons! The show totally jumped the shark with this LaPierre character if you ask me.

I think it's always been free? or at least it is now.

If you want to lose all faith in football related humanity, the ongoing scandal and investigation in Stuebenville, Ohio below is about as reprehensible as things come:

My only concern with that is that the Feds are probably already awash in threats of varying seriousness to the president given the hostility toward him held by certain segments of the population. One wants to be cautious of course, but definite care needs to be taken to distinguish ultimately harmless blabbing from…

I agree with the posters above who recommend passing it on to HR. As repugnant as the quoted sentiments are, they none the less do not pass the threshold for me from being mere idiocy as opposed to direct threat warranting federal response.

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