The big lesson here is that when the "Don't eat any animals." people and the "Don't eat cute animals." people join together, they're able to overcome us "Eat every animal." people.

Adam Curtis' documentary Hypernormalisation makes the case that the new system of political control is based on making sure nobody knows what's actually going on. Check it out:

Um in the play wasn't Caesar a good leader who was brought down by Cassius' jealous scheming? Didn't everyone involved in the assassination plot end up running for their lives?

Godspeed, sweet weirdo.

To live in a world where the sentence "Bill Cosby is a rapist." is true. This might not be the darkest timeline, but it must be close.

I mean, that was my position in the discussion, yes. We work alone out on a boat, and in that situation everyone has a bit of a case of the not-gays. My point is that while such discussions are in poor taste, there isn't a whole lot to be gained by berating the older generations about it.

My boss recently started a conversation about whether his Wonder Woman (Linda Carter) was hotter than "my" wonder woman. It was fine. They're both good looking women. It was something to talk about. Whatever.

Now imagine that same sensation but you can go even faster and don't have to pedal. That's a scooter/motorcycle, and its awesome.

I know I'm being a bit glib, but don't take it out when you're socializing, put it on silent and cover up the LEDs when you sleep and only log into facebook when you want to message someone.

What is the obvious downside of a smartphone as compared to a normal cell phone? Reduced battery life?

I'm about to start riding a bike to work tomorrow and this article makes me feel even more smug about it. Thanks!

In film school they taught us that any movie can be improved by using that as the last line.

Wow. I had a vague memory of this but I had no idea how often cartoons ended with somebody killing themselves.

Maybe graduate degrees are an aphrodisiac?

I was 16 on 9/11. I saw the plume of smoke from the pentagon out the window of my school bus. I was ready to sign up for the army then, but by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd watched my country being tricked into invading Iraq, a place that had nothing to do with 9/11. I guess things have seemed less black…

My list for conservatives would go like this: They support the strong over the weak. They'd rather spend our money on weapons and walls than on helping people. They want to impose their religion on everyone else. They're afraid of people different from themselves and can't accept any criticism of America. They accuse…

Well I'd say on the Onion and in the comments here, 90% of the time we're just trying to make people laugh. Sometimes its in poor taste, and sometimes its at someone's expense, but I don't think that makes us bad people.

Well the whole thing is a reference to the 1979 movie Alien, in which a ruthless alien species incubates in a human chest before bursting out and wreaking havoc. So the joke is that conservative media figures aren't human but actually murderous alien monsters…you know, maybe there is a problem with this joke after all.

Do you consider yourself to have a sense of humor? If so, what is something that you would say is funny? I'm genuinely curious and won't make fun of your answer.

There's got to be a joke in there about how the world thinks Americans have no morals and Americans think they're half right…