Was just coming down here to complain about this. Was it a little girl singing "I Wanna Be Sedated" for some horror movie? Because if so, that was the exact same sequence as my showing of Silence last night. I was actually getting angry by the end of it.

I'm putting my chips down right now that the Queen dies before year-end.

Knowing Mountain Goats songs in this game should be considered cheating. Way too many good ones.

A month or so ago when Trump was complaining about something being unfair, someone I follow on Twitter busted out "Fair? Who's the fuckin' nihilists around here?"

If they were writing a book or running for office it might be akin to lying about your war record. But in this case we're talking about the musical genre of gangsta rap, where the criminality has always been something of a performance. Eazy-E and Ice Cube were both definitely frontin' by your standards, and they…

The Wikipedia article on "Measuring against the linchpin" is not extremely well-sourced and only mentions one set of conquered enemies he used it against, but it looks like it was real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Is that guy going to be this year's Oscar Isaac, where he shows up in everything? He's already got an HBO miniseries, bit part in a Bourne movie, and a bigger part in a Star War and I feel like I just heard of him last week.

That's a very weird likely voter screen, then, since most of the time that split favors the Republican.

Yeah, I love that they can mess around with 7/4 time signatures and stuff but until this song I never would have expected them to play a straight-up Bossa Nova rhythm. And it works.

Nope, it's the other one.

You'd think they'd have a Google news alert (or maybe something more anononymized/homebrew) set up for "5/9" and "fsociety". And if I were Cisco, I'd probably set up some DIY security at my place to know when I'm getting raided.

Oh man, now I don't remember if I gave up on Weeds or True Blood first.

You definitely need to get to Good Stuff, even if you don't eat beef. Their Vietnamese iced coffee milkshake alone is worth the trip.

To be clear, too late for the trial, but it was pretty known before Willingham's execution. Rick Perry just ignored all the pleas for clemency and the justice system doesn't usually let you introduce new evidence during the appeals process.

The difference between the first and this one in terms of intra-agency dynamics is exactly why this one seemed so bad to me. In the first, the CIA director tells a room of people (including Brian Cox) that he knows none of his people are dumb enough to run a black ops kill squad. Then Brian Cox goes through a second…

Can we believe that the movie was just kind of bad, and that more attention (especially in editing) to its supposed themes would have left more viewers with the intended negative impression of the main characters and of the world they inhabit? That five minutes of DiCaprio and Rob Reiner rambling about trends in…

You say that as a joke but DT is absolutely a mercantilist. It's the closest you can come to a coherent explanation of his zero-sum views of world trade and international security.

Username/comment synergy making me feel all icky.

On you, maybe.

On the other hand, the oil price collapse since the referendum has kind of vindicated the "no" side, and really complicated the picture of what a Scottish national budget would look like.