I wasn't trying to be flip. People make movies about things in which they are interested unless it's some kind of corporate school film, which I'm sure some of those already exist. Perhaps reading a Jezebel comment will cause someone to think about writing and pitching a Harriet Tubman film, but the process has to…

Amazon has dozens of books on screenwriting, if you'd like to give it a try.

No, my point is that in his dinner table conversation, I'm sure your neighbor was asking about an ideal past, one painted with modern sensibilities. I don't know that there's anybody who would want to go back to the past as it existed, which is why it is usually depicted as idealized on television. For example, all of…

I've never wanted to go back to a previous time and I don't know how I would answer if asked a preference at a dinner party, but in defense of those who would, unless they're some kind of special asshole with whom you wouldn't be friends, stating a preference wouldn't mean that they'd want bad along with the good. Off…

Though it's just a technicality, Bill owned the astroturf-lined El Camino. After he first told the story, a lot of us wrote our own jokes which have become part of his lore.

On Two and Half Men, she plays the late Charlie's daughter. Her character is a hard-partying lesbian in the Charlie Sheen role.

Are they anywhere near the Sam Houston Institute of Technology?

I only really know what was the case for me and I've asked my wife, but a targeted web search says it was in '87 when children's social security numbers were required on tax forms to prove dependents were real and they started being automatically issued with birth certificates in '89.

Babies getting a social security number is a relatively new thing. I'd say within the past twenty years or so. I don't know your age, but it was normal for people to not get one until their teens.

If they don't do a new post, there will always be the Lifehacker archives.

You're talking about syndicated programming which is scheduled by the local channel and would be subject to their "local standards". Network television, whose "community standards" were the entire nation are the ones who put the more adult programming later at night.

Scheduled posts?

Great eye! Hope you don't mind, but I flipped the two and posted it to Crosstalk, where I gave you the credit and linked this thread. Terrific job!

I'm emailing you now, if you'd like to dismiss. I'm going to go ahead and dismiss the one with your email addy because I can.

I'm borrowing this old comment where we're both gray and you can dismiss me to keep your comment clean if you'd like, I'm only using it as a communications tool, but your post today was shared to Crosstalk and I've looked at your Kinja, I'd really like to give you author privileges so that you can share more of your…

I'm sure the video will not display properly in a comment, so I'm linking to where I posted a clip to Crosstalk last month, but according a Discovery Channel show, foxes are more likely to catch field mice hidden under snow, if they're facing north.

I see you posted something to Groupthink and shared it to Crosstalk. I don't know how I missed it, but Kinja's search hasn't been doing shares for a while, though it still picks up tags.

I remember when her story first broke, it seems like somebody posted some of her pics to Crosstalk and a nine minute profile was posted to Gawker. It looks like the bio you linked is a couple of years behind schedule, the Kickstarter linked from Gawker had said 2012, but it looks like the film will probably be good…

The more appropriate question seems to be why it was reported in the first place. One could argue that if a waiter wrote a slur on a receipt, people could complain and boycott until they were fired, but if her story had been true and if a customer had been offensive, what were other people supposed to do about it?

I've never used them and can't really endorse it, but there has been at least one company selling celebrity voices for GPS units for a few years. It doesn't look like their offerings have expanded much since I first heard of them and unfortunately they don't have Hiddleston, but they do offer Burt Reynolds and Mr T.