That reference to buying the knitting and dying facility for under $250,000 seemed peculiar, but the article notes that it doesn't include the knitting and dying equipment (which was presumably leased). So, yeah, the wire's about all you could scavenge from the big empty building with a concrete floor. And maybe the…

What if a victim tries to escape the bottomed out sharks via a tow lift, and the sharks bite onto it to pursue, thus learning that they can get back up the slope that way. Then the climax can be an attempt to get past the sharks to turn off the lift!

If I had to guess, I'd say the Turks.

I know the song, I was just focusing on the voices, when I suppoe Ms.
Rife was getting at the nonsense lyrics as being an ethnic stereotype.

So, as an AV Club homo, given the choice between Jenny and Tad, which way do you go?

So exactly what "kitschy racial stereotypes" were the original chipmunk voices supposed to have been? They don't sound Armenian…

Hot Karl (Karp’s literally shitty stage name, and one he deeply regrets)

How is he not our President right now?

If anything, Tripp should have even more fans, hoping that he can buy them alcohol or possibly get them an internship.

I'm pretty sure it's been bipartisan dickery.

"He's stolen the formula for… Chlorine gas!"

I watch Bob's Burgers, but the way it gets preempted by football, I don't think I can call that "regularly".

Well, I prefer not to stretch the truth like that because of the inconsistency of it all — Somehow I'm quite fond of pizza.

Which always makes me wonder why there seems to be such difficulty in pulling off executions by lethal injection. It doesn't seem like rocket science to say "You know that fine line between anesthesia and death? Screw it! Triple everything!"

I think "foodie" has social aspirational associations comparable to being a wine connoisseur or being fine arts-educated. There are plenty of people out there who don't really have very adventurous palates who still like the prestige of going to trendy and expensive restaurants. And if they can sneer at what they're…

"Dietary Restrictions" are usually at a broad-brush level like "vegan" or "gluten-free" or "halal" or whatever, and are common enough nowadays that you're largely right about people accommodating them. My own problem with sauces and such is more idiosyncratic, and can tend to elicit a "You haven't tried my lasagna!"…

It can definitely be socially awkward. I'm at the non-clinical level like you, but mostly focused on disliking a lot of tomato or cream-based sauces and salads. I can usually find something I can eat when dining out, but I'm strongly hesitant about private dinner invitations, because people tend to be so personally…

It'd have been even creepier if you'd just finished reading it on 9/10.

Debt of Honor remains interesting, though, as an exhibit of how ephemeral some public fears can be — like concerns about Japanese "economic warfare" in the early '90s. It's also one of the first major popular portrayals of the idea of "4th-generation warfare" — where most of the population of the US and Japan aren't…

It's interesting to look back at the attitudes of the time — British attitudes seemed to view the Nazis as a threat to the peace, but still more-or-less reasonable chaps, even after the war started, right up to the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.