Not a lot of work gets done in Chicago during the summer, full stop. The city has such a bad winter and such a beautiful summer that everybody would rather be outside than doing business.

I saw that movie. It's Orson Welles.

I was at a Skeet Range last weekend and there was a dude in the lobby teaching his son how to aim a shotgun by standing in front of the boy and having the boy point the unbreached weapon directly at the father's face. Not a peep from the people running the place.

At least they're handling them properly. Notice their fingers, straight and off the trigger. Not a lot of gun owners know that rule.

You can freeze leftover canned tomato paste. Just wrap it up in saran wrap and put it in the freezer. You don't even need to thaw it to use it, just drop it in a pan and go. My dad would do this all the time.

George Melies would be proud.

Because he was doing this shit 110 years ago.

I've seen a few games on ESPN, and one of the things that irks me is that any time a player hits a homerun the entire team empties from the dugout to meet the girl at home plate: 1st inning, game winner, doesn't matter. To me, that's showing up the pitcher and if I was the girl in the circle, I'd bean the next player,…

My finacée specifically told me she didn't want to carry three months salary on her hand. She's also a geologist, and thinks diamonds are boring. I asked her what she like more than diamonds, and she said aquamarine. Hence, she has a really gorgeous blue ring for a really small fraction of what the industry says you…

This video is relevant as well. Essentially, this person advocates using game theory to pit car dealers against themselves and get them to be the lowest bidder. It's pretty genius.

No matter how much a starting pitcher may practice hitting, they're only going to get game-speed pitching two, maybe three, at bats a game once every five days. How good would you be at your job compared to all your co-workers if they had 94% more experience than you?

I actually don't care about watching the pitcher hit. What I'll miss when the NL goes DH is the rhythm of the game. There's a sameness, inning to inning, 9 hitter to 1 hitter in the AL that I think is boring.

I blame her producers and news editors. Most local news anchors are pretty faces and not much else; they're not really journalists. So it's up to the people behind the camera to prepare their stars for an interview, something like making sure the anchor knows the interviewee is an Olympic class distance runner.

If you called traveling every time at that level you'd never finish the game.

Nobody bats a thousand.

I've seen those clips before, and I disagree with your assessment of them. There is a difference between exploring the use and meaning of a word given context and history, and just using a word for shock value. It's a fine line, and CK is a skilled enough comedian to do it. Someone like Tosh or McFarlane is probably…

Daniel Tosh did not get slammed because he made a rape joke. He got slammed because he made an unfunny rape joke.

I googled that quote and came back empty. Can you provide a link, because it doesn't sound like CK at all.

Your point about people still singing "Born in the U.S.A." as a patriotic anthem bring up why editors will use music like this. The public doesn't know what most song are about: they only know how most songs make them feel. "Good Riddance" is a wistful breakup song, but people only know the wistful part and that Billy…

Organizing boycotts is freedom of speech. Why is it ok in one instance but not another? Why is the individual right sacrosanct but the collective right not?

You are right, the first amendment guarantees Tosh should receive no punishment for the government but not from the public. Why is Tosh's right to free speech sacrosanct and the right of those he offended is not? Tosh apologizing is the free market at work.