Guardians of the Galaxy is a great movie. It probably deserved to be nominated for best picture. It is not, by any estimation, the best movie of the year. Not in a year with Under the Skin, Boyhood, Whiplash, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Franken did it in Minnesota, where they elected Jessie "The Body" Ventura governor.

The Grammys, and all award shows, are stupid because they force qualitative comparisons against things that are so dissimilar it's ridiculous.

One of my friends had pretty libertarian leanings. Then he spent about four years living and working in Africa generally, Ghana and Uganda specifically. While both are fine places (I visited him in Ghana, and had a blast), they are third world countries, and living and working in the third world made a liberal out of…

So hang 'em high! Not being old enough to carry the thing your toy represents is a capital offense.

Truly a capital offense.

Andy Kaufmann would have loved this.

Doing heroic deeds and being a hero are two very different things. Taxi Driver shows us that, but that was a movie that understood ambiguity.

When I was coming home from the invasion in 2003, Iceman was getting a meritorious combat promotion to Staff Sergeant on the plane. I was with a different unit, but everything in the book and the mini-series is 100% accurate, as far as what the experience of invading Iraq was like.

Really? I think she looks ridiculously sexy.

Those aren't one to one comparisons. Nobody votes in every category. Writers only vote in the writing categories, for example.

There are ways.

I just hope the new owners don't fuck it up.

In my experience, you could give the tickets away on Peachtree Street and people won't show up. Two things have changed.

That article was great, and it made me even more pissed that the Braves are fucking moving out of the city to chase the Alpharetta Unicorn.

That won't be true for long. 4 out of the last 5 home games were sellouts.

Terrapin is also an excellent beer. Hopsecutioner is great.

I think their IPA is terrific, and rivals any other IPA on the market.

Nay to the ceremony; Yay to the reception.

As always, the answer is low cost index funds. You'll get your 8%, and you just pump money into them and leave them alone. I have one each for the NYSE, Nasdaq, and S&P.