I get where Sham Sith is coming from, but the idea that anybody ought to be shamed for not being enough of a mascot for their group is bullshit, especially when the plan in question involves exposing yourself to people with shitty, toxic views. Ain't nobody's damn business but yours how you choose to engage (or not)…

And that's cool. Might even make the world a better place. Doesn't justify your decision to be an asshole toward people who feel differently.

If your experience is that engaging with bigots helps them become less bigoted and makes the world a better place, then it's cool of you to be willing to make the sacrifice to do that.

To find us some fruit worth cumming in…

Hey, fair enough. We end this civilly and walk away as gentlemen. Or gentleman and shell of a former FBI agent, if you prefer.

I hear you, but I'd like to point out that the Ayn Rand Institute themselves seem to consider Social Security as an example of welfare. (see https://ari.aynrand.org/blo….

I was just recently reading about that, and apparently the official Rand Institute justification for that is that if you accept a government handout with the mindset that you're simply receiving compensation for your property which was wrongly seized by the government via taxation. So you just have to tell yourself…

The author's take is that 9/11 was basically a situation where perfectly innocent people died for no rational reason at all, where something as innocent as which floor you worked on might determine your fate, and that same sense of nihilism has characterized the last decade of horror. It's 'Post-9/11 Horror in…

See, I pondered that, but I'm not sure he'd get away clean. Depending on how the fire burns before it's extinguished, there could still be lots of trace evidence left behind, and with a house full of dead bodies, you can bet they're going to be interested to figure out who those traces belong to. They're going to…

I read an interesting book a few years ago with the thesis that the 'downer ending' in horror became a lot more common after 9/11. Before that horror movies usually ended with at least some kind of temporary victory: the final girl escapes Jason, Freddy gets killed for at least a while, etc. Since 9/11 it's much more…

That was pretty much my exact response. By that point I kind of felt like Chris had earned his escape, and the smile on Allison William's face when she decides he's done infuriated me.

I'm not a food business proprietor, but my uninformed opinion offered for your consideration is that you shouldn't worry about this because you haven't even opened a single location yet. Wait until you're neck-deep in adoring customers before you worry about how to launch your pizza empire.

I guess it depends on why Howard was willing to play the villain. Was he trying to spare Jimmy the shame of knowing his own brother was working against him, or was he just trying to keep the firm's cash cow (Chuck) happy and marking down the billable hours?

For me, the problem is that Chuck did what he did in secret. Because I get where he's coming from: if I didn't trust my con artist brother, I wouldn't want him working in my old firm, either. But Chuck should have just come out and said "Sorry, bro, but I don't trust you. Go be a lawyer someplace else." Wouldn't have…

I would agree Cernovich deserves a Pulitzer. As long as it's fired at him out of a cannon at alarming speed.

I'm really glad the late night host who tussled Trump's hair has finally gotten back together with the late night comedy show that showed us Trump's just a regular ol' politician.

And to tell the publisher that as long as they publish shitty books by shitty people, they're not getting my money. Which admittedly probably isn't that big a blow to them, but I can at least choose not to support them.

Ditto. I can understand how people reading them as they came out would be frustrated that they got a big ol' chunk of backstory and then a 10+ year long wait for the follow up, but I loved it.

I caught a late night screening at the Film Forum in NYC back in March or April. It was my first time seeing it, and walking back to my hotel at 2am on a weeknight was a pleasantly surreal experience.

In high school I listened to a guy trying to impress a girl at the adjacent locker by telling her, sagely "Elton John's 'Rocket Man' isn't about an astronaut who goes to Mars. It's about HEROIN."