I made that last part up because I know kids love Pizza Hut from the commercials that ran before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles home video cassette.

It's fair enough. It's sort of that really strange thing where you can look at a percentage and say "wow, that's really good." But then you look at the actual number that percentage represents and it's infuriating.

"Shoplifting is stupid, but almost everyone does it at some point" ... the numbers are 1 in 10. Hardly everybody and certainly not enough to say it's normalized.

There's an IO9 article on how the human brain has a tendency to twist facts into a narrative that confirms what they already want to believe. Especially in this case it has been apparent on both sides.

It's a moot point. The autopsy is going to reveal who is being truthful and who is lying because the stories diverge quite severely. None of it is actually irrelevant because in a trial, these things would come up. What the protesters/cops would like is largely irrelevant. The discovered facts don't much care…

In both cases the act of pushing into the car and the act of trying to break free are going to look extremely different because of how the hands are going to push, grab, or dig in. Couple that with what would probably be bruises on Brown and the officer. In addition, if Brown pushed his way into the car, there are…

My disagreement with you is I just am not that cynical with an independent autopsy and the justice department involved. One version of the story is going to get confirmed scientifically and will come down to what is and is not found on Brown's nails as well as the wounds themselves. And if people disagree with the…

It's not missing the point, it's just realizing there are a lot of points up in the air now. Just judging by the tenor of posts on Jez, the state may have legit concerns Wilson would remain alive long enough to stand trial. I wouldn't blame them at this point. Lack of transparency in an investigation also isn't…

I've sort of been waiting for people to notice that. People stopped talking about Brown as a person and started talking about him as a cause a long time ago. And it's not a shock that people bent on causing trouble have come out to play in Ferguson at this point.

Bey, Prince, Kanye... what's the difference? Glorifying pop is pretty standard regardless of decade. With him specifically, so much of his work has become classic for different reasons from his videos to his presentation to his tunes.

Honestly this song doesn't even feel that updated or like Kanye. It feels like something that could have been have found on the Bad album which isn't saying anything bad. He may not have never released the track for fear of how close the instrumental track comes to "Leave Me Alone."

See, that's me. I actually get the logic of "more risk" if and only if tissue isn't being tested. But since not testing tissue might be a spectacularly bad idea for malpractice reasons, why would anyone reasonably accept "risk" as an excuse. Unfortunately you can't sue the FDA successfully for blocking the tissue. …

Maybe this is a New York thing, but I was out on this article the second the article informed me there were zero parks for dogs in the context of the story. How in the name of sweet, clean, baby Cthulu can tiny New York parks manage to shoehorn those things in with regularity and LA spends over $140 million and…

Why? Just curious. I could sort of see it, but given a lot of suspense in Clash of Kings is coming from Renly's camp being the X factor and later books allowing the Tyrell's to be an x factor to the Lannisters, do you not feel Loras would have given too much away?

"for the sake of it" in the context of HIS story would be bad. He's just plotted everything so tightly that if it showed up out of nowhere, it would look odd and forced. If he were writing something a bit more loose which left more to the imagination and relied less on the motivations of people in a serial manner,…

But is it really a good critique of this particular story? I can criticize "As Good As It Gets" for lack of suspense and how it fails as a classic thriller, but I'm criticizing it for being something that it is not. ASoIaF is not a story vehicle for sex scenes, so specifically looking at representation in sex…

My guess is Oberyn never becomes viewpoint because of how his story resolves with the Mountain. If we knew what his thoughts were going into that fight, whatever tension we might have felt for Tyrion would have been gone since we would know he'd fly off the handle.

Your opinion is fascinating but I'm not understanding the basis. What are you criticizing? His range or his actual acting ability?

I think that's because, as critics most of us are quite bad at it. And fans lob flaccid criticism at actors, actresses, writers and directors that spend months and years producing something they believe in or at the very least worked their ass off for only to read extremely douchy comments. People use the money…

Most people will believe it when the ratings actually go down. Right now, people have been bitching about GoT since season 1 and the ratings have only moved in one direction to the point that Jezebel gleefully recaps it every week. All my favorite characters died or were made irrelevant in the first 3 books. I like…