From what I have read about Carlin, a lot of his cynical, cranky old man schtik really was just for the stage. I mean, he would get angry at systems that create or perpetuate injustice, but not get angry on a personal level with individuals. His girlfriend said that in his personal life, he really was a genuine and…

I remember reading somewhere about people, especially highly successful people, often becoming mentally “stuck” in the mindset they inhabited at their moment of peak success (or at least what they feel was their peak). So you get adults still acting like they’re in high school because that is when they felt most…

I agree with your thinking. It does seem odd that the chess body is getting involved even though his actions after the tournament had nothing to do with the tournament at all. I was thinking that maybe because this is China, there are stricter rules about use of public spaces like hotels, but that doesn’t seem to be…

It is fortunate that Mr. Santos was able to utilize his volleyball athletism, along with his MMA champion level combat skills to fight off the three —no thirty— carjackers from making off with the car itself. In fact, his skills at combating crime have resulted in him earning the key to the city of New York from the…

Oh fine, it’s me. Sorry for the spoiler.

I don’t know about a reality TV show, but there are definitely people hosting Hunger Games dinner parties where everyone is supposed to dress in the gaudy, over the top style as characters from the Capitol. No word if others dress as tributes and act as servants or whatever. But I have heard of folks having Downton…

I have always been annoyed by the hand wave of what exactly the titans are. I mean I get the whole semi-mythological background. They are supposed to be Mysterious, but I was hoping for a more concrete story, like was the Devil of Earth an alien, or actual supernatural creature, maybe some sort of failed science…

Well, I mean...

I sometimes think about how quickly I would get shut down as a reporter if I ever had a chance at a sit down interview with anyone of any importance. I can’t imagine I would get past the second or third question before the interviewee stormed off. After that, maybe I would get one more chance to interview someone,…

My understanding, for the series at least, is that since Vought controls Compound V, the substance that grants super powers, any publicly recognized ”super villain” would be either someone deliberately created to be fought and killed as a sort of false flag operation, or was a Vought-created supe who has gone rogue…

Yeah, from the story, apparently there is at least one online group saying they’re working for McCarthy as they attack Gaetz. So I guess the plot twist is that Gaetz hired that company to attack him but also to say they are doing so on contract from McCarthy? What an ouroboros of incompetence.

Or get like SUPER personal about it!

Lots of comments on here already (plus I think I am still in the grays). But I did want to mention that the term “jazz” itself has a similar connotation as “jizz.” There is a good amount of debate over the exact etymology of the term “jazz,” but a lot of folks trace it to a variation of “jism” which technically means…

There is a well-know video where Tyson had tweeted that BB-8 from Force Awakens would have sunk into the desert sand. So some of the SW crew made a short demo video showing a pratical BB-8 model (not CGI) rolling across a stretch of desert sand.

Holy crap that was amazing!

I am not a professional in PR, but I have read a few articles about it. I remember reading how rule #1 in a PR emergency is do NOT lie about whatever is causing the problem. You can defer, you can spin, you can just stay silent, but do not straight up lie. There will always be ways to discover the lie and this will…

This is very informative, thank you. But I was thinking of another, more obvious legal defense.

Right, there is a big difference between this sort of joke on Conan vs. a situation like Burris sincerely calling out Cosby for committing rape.

From a sociological point of view, I wonder what sort of need these super authoritian parenting trends/communities fulfill. Before this specific group, there was the whole “Tiger Mom” thing (which continues to have some influence despite the writer Amy Chua basically disavowing the whole thing). And I am sure there…