No wonder Cersei is so pissy - her butt is sore.

Statement against interest. We'll allow it.

Hah … so it's the prop master who's behind it all.

Uh… no. Just no.
There's a reason nobody ever did this with armor, the reason being that there's no reason.

Hey now - it's not out of spite! Its out of an overwhelming need to give millionaires and billionaires a huge tax cut. What happens to the population is just collateral damage.

Props to Naomi - acting seriously in that setting would take more focus than most humans could muster.

In '77, Jessica Lange was worth the price of admission, no matter what you thought of giant gorillas.

Because the present sucks?

Strom Thurman booted Jeff Sessions for exactly that…. and look where that got us.

Have to go with Cohen's "Hallelujiah" - worn to death today, but that first listen was a revelation. (It helped that it was k.d. lang, live at Carnegie Hall… even Cohen tipped his ever-present hat to her cover.)

Does this mean they'll take down Breitbart's internet home for racists and wingnuts?

I disliked hipsters before it was hip.

IPAs are fine for them that likes 'em, but the damned things have taken over the supermarket shelves. Lagers, pilsners and IPAs are probably 90% of the "selection" these days, unless you're lucky enough to have a truly dedicated beer retailer within 50 miles.
I'm hoping that the ridiculous "hoppier than thou"…

"Golden Monkey" (Victory Brewing Co.) is a lovely concoction. One of the better U.S. approximations of a Belgian ale.

By reading all points of view on crank internet sites - and deciding that you know better than 99% of actual climate scientists.

Joke's on you, fool.

Woody Allen's "Manhattan" - decades later, the opening stays with me. Doesn't recapitulate (pre-capitulate?) the film in any way, but as a stand-on-its-own sequence it's awesome.

They can't write off the $15MM debt - but the $60k used to buy it was an asset purchase, and if an asset loses value, you depreciate it … up to the purchase price.
I'm not sure if the IRS has rules about deliberately blowing up an asset and taking the write-off, though.

I suppose we need some sort of system to "encourage" certain people to pay up. Imagine if there were no consequences to just throwing your credit card bills in the trash (and then the card, when it stopped working.)
In debt collection, the worse you behave, the more you make. As Oliver makes clear, a business like…

You can talk them down to about half of what they initially ask for, if you've got the nerve to negotiate.
Ask if they've actually bought the debt, though. The big banks often use these guys as a service, with the money going to the bank.