They even opened up the banquet rooms for lunch during these weeks, so I thought we were going to make extra cash. I was kind of puzzled when all of the veteran staffers started getting rid of their shifts, which I happily took.

Police procedurals are the sedatives of the TV world. Crime happens, cop investigates, red herring 1, red herring 2, bad guy almost gets away but detective/fbi field agent/us marshall draws gun and chases, apprehending just moments before end credits. You fall asleep before it's over? No worries, you know what…

You may not like it, but it's how they keep the doors open. It takes a lot of money to make movies, and audiences have shown that they will run to big-budget sequel dazzlers way more reliably than they'll run to a thoughtful, but not flashy or gimmicky, film. So Studio heads throw their money at the dazzlers and…

That's not the Thing's voice you hear. It's Reg E. Cathey, the BBQ guy from House of Cards and Carcetti's political adviser from The Wire. He plays Franklin Storm.

The below book was on Charlie Jane's list of the best SF Books of 2014. It's now $3.64 on Kindle, about $8 less than the norm.

I'd prefer to freak them out a little bit, while still being a considerate vandal.

Not abandoned. The Penthouse Suite gets a lot of tenants.

Careful, now. I will have you both brought out to the hell where people are skinned alive it's that simple, understand?

It was, but it didn't work out as intended. Occupational hazard!

Ummm, yeah….I was agreeing with you before.

I think you should do some research first. Civil forfeitures as conducted by state and local law enforcement have been notoriously misused. There are no shortage of instances where funding-starved departments have confiscated money, cars, boats, houses, etc etc from people with a mix of a) no criminal record, b)no…

As we know, humanity as a whole got to where it is through widespread neglect and/or abuse of children while adults toiled away on our dumb constitutions and created infrastructure that provides for the largest population in human history. I'm with the late George Carlin when he said "you know what I say? I say…

So am I to assume that, for the first time in 40+ years, someone in the American criminal justice system has learned to read? And in all of that time, the Supreme Court could only count to 3?

I stopped buying those and started buying the ones they sell at Sam's Club by the tires, I think they're called Optix. They're 8 bucks a pop, stick to the glass and last a full year.

Well, at the moment it's rather standalone - it's set in San Francisco, rather than the New York-focused shenanigans of The Winter Soldier and The Avengers

Love to throw this song, or "Inflammatory Writ" on during parties. About 2 minutes in people suddenly start asking "what the fuck are we listening to?" I haven't heard her more recent stuff, but I understand her voice has changed since then, kind of a shame.

Agreed, but even bigger morons are, more often than not, those running the focus groups. I've been on several and on more than one occasion I've seen (or been involved with) arguments between participants and organizers when they've not gotten the answers they want.

I hate to be that guy, but FTFY:

Ariel from the Little Mermaid, I believe.

I made the mistake of leaving mine home when I went to college. Parents moved, and whoosh! All transformers gone. Perceptor, Jetfire, Insecticons, Constructicons, 3 mail-order-only autobots. Blurg.