Even if you had never seen a David Fincher movie before David Lynch's work put you off so much that your disgust formed a halo effect that enveloped similarly-named directors, the only decent movie you would have missed as a result is Seven. As for Lynch, Mulholland Drive is legitimately excellent with respect to…

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The whole Eucharist is basically a cover for drinking on the job.

Given the amount of effort and artifice that goes into these representations... it's always a bit ominous when you see one of them that still looks gross and unappetizing.

Stein's going to hate Simmons's still-developing pork concept: Shank & Drank.

This sort of thing explains 50% of this summer's increase in domestic World Cup viewership.

Michael Chan, class of 2009, who wrote, "We will certainly be speaking through our donations" if Duffy didn't restore House football.

"Crumbling Psyche" is where this one belongs

Yes, the Orioles let it happen. Yes, it was wonderful.

Does ESPN collect retainer fees, or is their PR work all pro bono?

How are you going to write an article on Liam Neeson being a badass the day after the Scotland vote and not talk about Rob Roy?

Goodell began by stating that he "got it wrong on a number of levels"

David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress - Oneohtrix Point Never

See also: Texas, Lone Star. Besides, Pennsylvania has Victory, which is a legitimately excellent brewery. Why can't they be slavishly devoted to that?

Whether they had the video ought to be irrelevant, though: they knew he punched her, right? Wouldn't that constitute all the facts being available?

I guess because I'm not that educated on the matter - I was under the impression that the league was still widely viewed that way by a number of Americans. Is there somewhere I could see all that data?

That's manslaughter, Holmes.

Even as Ms. Jenkins criticizes the policy, she effectively enforces the NFL's "Not All Players" defense. The problem is that we are all, collectively, guilty of confirmation bias when it comes to incidents like those being highlighted these past few weeks (as well as the select incidents that led to the creation of…

Shrewd move by the Vikes. They were going to miss playoffs anyway, now they'll miss playoffs and be applauded for it.

I always assumed it was related to the reason some teachers used to get pissed at me for doodling in class: because they're insecure and the thought of being "disrespected" - by a child, no less - fills them with an unfathomable rage, a rage that is perhaps most efficiently placated by letting the child know, one way…