I spit out all the water I was drinking when I read this comment. Now everyone in the office thinks I'm (more of) an idiot and knows that I wasn't working.

Better Call Saul is good.

I've been told that boarding by zone is actually faster than back-to-front boarding, counterintuitively.

A lot of Mexicans voted for Trump. People are weird.

I've been told she has kuru, a disease she contracted after consuming her child sex slaves.

Sounds like one of the more lucid passages from Finnegan's Wake.

How about the men who can't afford to orgy?

Kubrick's movies work best when the characters are supposed to be cold and lifeless, purely subject to desire, the law, nature, the plot itself, et cetera: Eyes Wide Shut, 2001, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, The Killing, and the first half of Full Metal Jacket. There is a certain austere cinema to these films that I find…

I'm genuinely curious how you came to this conclusion.

He looks like Max Schreck in Nosferatu with highlights.

That was probably the most gobsmacked I've been by a sentence uttered this year. And we are officially in the era of the Word Salad Presidency, so it has stiff competition. As much as Hitchens' thought degenerated during his last decade of life, he was always witty, acerbic, and knowledgeable. Besides the pompous…

What was he like in high school?

How disingenuous. The Democratic Party controlled the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1995. They "won" the House every two years for that 48 year period — except when they didn't, in 1994.

Millions now living will never die. A tortoise told me that.

What happened to the rest of that guy's tuxedo?

When is Palme Thursday coming back??

I've never encountered this phenomenon and I was a substitute teacher in a suburban high school when I was between jobs.

It will get worse.

From Umberto Eco's essay on "Ur-Fascism":
"The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret…

You can show him this photo of Obama literally walking down a red carpet in Saudi Arabia:
https://cdn1.pri.org/sites/…