Re on-line reviews:

It bothers me that many bikers bitch about drivers not following the rules of the road, and then those fuckers will run red lights/stop signs whenever they can.

Again, I am a dad. It is my instinct to find trends and phrases that went out of fashion years ago and render them even MORE uncool.

Just fuck all of these people. Unisex bathrooms are not a problem. 

What’s great about that last still is that you can tell by his form that he is already preparing to slide. Like, if you’re just sprinting at top speed, you are upright. But he is already crouching. It’s cool to see a frozen shot where a player has committed to the slide and yet to the average middle aged guy who never…

The furthers I’ve traveled for sex ended up being not sex. So, when I was in my early 20s in Oklahoma, I knew a super hot and flirty woman who had just moved from Oklahoma to Utah for school. (Very LDS, but from good sources defintely was down for sex.) We used to talk often— in an age where I had to call on my analog…

Well-- the right uses Antifa as a “but what about them” foil when people bring up violent Neo-Nazis. The idea is that Antifa is just the left’s version of Neo-Nazis and so both sides have those sorts of people. And yes, it doesn’t matter that Antifa is ostensibly against something-- fascism-- that is decidedly an…

Honest question re media and pro wrestling: In an actual sport, a reporter can ask a player/coach things about why a certain play was called, or to comment on why someone was so hot/cold, etc. But with a scripted event like this, those questions are to a great extent moot. So what is a reporter asking for these sorts…

Don’t you think it’s a strange way to phrase things, though? I’m not an expert on legal English from the 1800s but “death recorded” is odd versus just “executed on” as a term. It was enough for the reporter to do some checking (as a reporter, no less-- not a graduate researcher) and find out without too much effort…

Agreed. In my experience, the committee (aside from one’s advisor) doesn’t pay too much attention to the work and will just pick on a minor point during defense. But we were encouraged to present and/or publish parts of our dissertations to get more review. It seems like if she’d done such a thing earlier on, someone…

Best goddamned comment of the day.

Yeah. When I was in grad school, we’d have a monthly seminar where we were all assigned someone’s recent dissertation to read. We’d each have a chapter to go through and summaraize/critique. Since we were just lowly grad students, most of our efforts were on summarizing, since we generally weren’t in a position to…

My new 2018 Nissan doesn’t make a sound.

With modern cars (and I assume they were driving something that was newer than, say, a 2011 model), it’s almost impossible to drive without wearing a seatbelt. Their annoying alarms start within seconds of driving and don’t shut up. This happens even when I put something heavy in the passenger seat and my car thinks…

God. This never occured to me, but yeah. Like, we all know now that it was an accident based on equipment, but at the time, what if there were malice involved? It’s a little Law and Order-ish, but still. Someone died. You need to collect evidence. 

The “just have the baby and give it up for adoption” people are fucking idiots who have never had a kid, or haven’t been with a woman who has had a kid, or has no empathy for one who has. (Spoken as a guy who has no children, but who has been close friends with women who have gone through pregnancy.)

It’s not like when…

On 2 counts of forgery? Even if it’s a class B or C felony, that sounds about right (10% of $20,000) based on the standard Alabama bond schedule guidelines.

Yeah. I remember as a kid (long ago) when my mom was writing her dissertation. She paid someone to type (this was before computers, so there was a skill to judging when to stop the main text and begin with footnotes-- something I couldn’t imagine doing know). While the typist got a thanks in the acknowledgements, no…

God. I don’t know how people don’t get this. Like, the guy on stage called Romeo doesn’t actually die. He’s acting out a plot. And yet people STILL watch Shakespeare after all these years!!

Yeah. I get on at New Carrollton in the morning sometimes, and occasionally grab a breakfast sandwich from one of station’s vendors. I will eat it out on the platform-- I know it’s annoying for everyone else. But if that bell rings and I have a few bites left, I’ll still duck into the train and quickly scarf it down.…