Knowing how much it costs to rent a beach house in that area, it would probably amount to more than the fine if they calculate it right.

Nah, I think the first of these recent ads was designed both to rile up the far-right into buying more guns, and to scare people on the left into thinking, “Holy shit, those lunatics are coming after us with their guns,” so they will also buy guns. Guns for everyone! = $$$$ for gun manufacturers (the real heart of…

The music one was a big one when I watched “Veronica Mars” a few years back - Air’s “Cherry Blossom Girl” was used a lot the first season, and it came up in the cc’s, but they clearly didn’t get the rights and had some weird “similar feel” song playing.

She’s done more than a lot of people who are famous for less?

THIS. I rushed to Shade Court for this.

I did actually see something - the “he hits back” comment that’s being printed as Melania’s response to this ridiculousness was something she said last year about something else - I don’t think she’s had a comment on this. Because she’s probably being kept from commenting on anything where he isn’t in the room at the…

The Johnny Depp robot at the end of the ride is looking a lot better than the real Depp these days. Maybe they can just pop him into the next movie instead of Depp. Not like anyone would notice.

That is interesting!

I’m sure you’re right. God, I hope that this - that something, for once - blows up in their faces.

SERIOUSLY. The district courts in CA are some of the most copyright-owner-friendly in the country. Did they just decide “better to beg for forgiveness than ask permission”? I feel like you can tell these are the girls who didn’t have a lawyer for a parent (versus the Kardashians).

You can tell these are the girls who did not have a lawyer for a parent (versus the Kardashians).

Oh man, that makes her Cheerios box tweet yesterday all the more wonderful.

Yeah, it seemed like he was trying to use an old expression (e.g., “How are you going to manage that?” “The same way porcupines fuck - very carefully.”), but twisted himself in knots trying to be clever.

Man, that gif from “Picnic” makes my day every time I see it.

Isn’t that how she met her partner, too?

I don’t know if it was shade, but I had to stop myself from screaming “BURN!” with my office door open. Eyebrows about jumped up to my hairline, though. Damn.

Southern Baptist Convention has always been pretty fundamentalist, from my understanding. There was a big preacher in San Antonio (where my family is from originally) who caused a big stir when he withdrew much of his church’s support for the SBC because of their fundamentalism - Buckner Fanning (who died in February…

Or, in the case of the Cherokee Nation, it may involve keeping out the descendants of your ancestors’ slaves.

Perhaps this has something to do with it?

In Georgia I knew “fundamentalist Baptists” (would probably be Evangelicals now) and “traditionalist Baptists.” The former were as I described above. The latter found proselytizing distasteful and were very respectful in discussions of different religions.