So, what is it with period pieces that they absolutely MUST have an illicit affair? Maybe I’m a big, stuffy jerk, but can they not cover any other topics? It gets old after a while and I find myself losing interest in the whole genre.

I find the only really douchey thing about Leo is his propensity to date 20 something blonde models. At the same time though... it’s not like he’s coercing these women to date him, and it’s not like they’re getting a bad end of the bargain (unless they expect marriage or a seriously long term relationship which at…

I think the article is pretty neutral reporting on what he said. We are just more used to these kinds of articles being more outrage inducing.

i didn’t take the article as saying that we should be mad. i didn’t pick up on any snark. just straight up reporting.

I think we’ve all been so trained by headlines to feel something along the lines of outrage and/or snark that we’re reading into some intent by the author that may not actually be there.

Leave it to England to invent a game where people politely move out of the way of joggers.

Chicken in UK is just assault. Kinda like cunt is a term of endearment.

Maybe the game of chicken has different rules in the U.K., like baseball and football do.

Check out some of Derren Brown’s cold reading videos, he’s a magician who fully admits that he’s not a medium at all, and he performs some pretty astonishing readings. There are a lot of magicians and similar people who do debunking videos, and it’s crazy how specific and accurate they can get just by guessing.

Keep at the reading and writing, you’re doing great.

Do you not understand how this series works?

Yep. There’s been a revival of interest in ostensibly “natural” forms of spiritualism, similar to the increased popularity of crystals. More and more people are reading tarot, putting stock in astrology, etc. I think it’s interesting looking at how much our culture has grown to embrace themes of fantasy, magic,…

That’s the power of cold reading, getting enough hits to let confirmation bias set in.

They sound like lyrics to a really fucked up version of “You Can Call Me Al.”

I always felt a little sorry for Wright Thompson, since he was Hunter S. Thompson’s son, and boy, it must be hard to follow in those shoes. But then one day I found out he wasn’t Hunter S. Thompson’s son. And then I didn’t feel sorry for him, and started to really dislike the hats he chooses to don.

At the insistence of his editor, the author ruefully removed the following sentence: “Glumly peering into their half-filled bowls of Lucky Charms, each morning, the downtrodden people of Dublin fill their thermoses full of whisky and stagger down to the pub, where they dance jigs and fight each other as the jukebox…

This is a great example of how government enablers of greedy corporations are far more dangerous than those corporations themselves. No corporation can put a gun to my head and make me buy their shit, but a government can sure as hell put a gun to my head and make me pay taxes for someone’s shit.

There was a real debate in the United States on the left of whether these were show trials. We know today they were; those people were pretty much all innocent. But some people were trying to rationalize, saying they must have been guilty.

...and in Pale Fire he even ripped off John Shade’s poem!
Con artist.

Charger fans have always been a bit fairweather, but the ownership didn’t do anything to endear itself over the last 15 yrs. The stadium issue has been around for a while, and that shit tends to turn people off.