If nothing else, I bet there are a slew of Andrew Jackson scholars sitting in their bunker-like college offices reading about this and doing that thing where disgusted laughter slowly becomes crying.

I've observed over the years that one of biggest unacknowledged tenets of right-wing thinking is that negative actions by a member of a minority reflect negatively on said minority as a whole… and because right-wing thinking favors the majority, this burden of accountability doesn't apply to them.

I wouldn't worry too much. With the hubris and superlative self-promotion tone, this strikes me as flailing.

Logistically this is still mind-blowing to me. So the organizers thought they were essentially going to construct a city just to have their music festival? With infrastructure and everything? If that't the case, this whole endeavor doesn't seem very thought-out (to state the obvious).

I was younger and naive about such things, but I remember seeing "M." for the first time and being blown away that a movie that dark was made so long ago. Audiences who go for all those nth-generation Silence of the Lambs imitators would probably be surprised to see that something that dark came out in 1931.

Mrs. was watching The Handmaid's Tale. I wasn't really paying attention, but I do remember a rather unexpected pop song being used. I joked that the next episode would probably close with "Semi-Charmed Life."

The 1988 Blob came close, but fell just short of a movie that would be remembered years later, IMO. I liked the gorier, killing-machine blob, and the effects really teased my imagination at the time.

Al Gore has a big house, and has made money. Therefore, climate change is not real.
— every right-wing talk-show host in America.

The tetanus thing might be worth considering. Lest us not forget one of the best endings in science fiction history, War of the Worlds.

Ha, ha. Yes, I like that thought, that gun enthusiasts who insist that those of us who don't have guns will be in trouble when the shit goes down are actually planning on shooting themselves when said shit goes down.

I just got here. What happened?

I had no idea who Billy McFarland was before today, but that apology is weirdly tone-deaf.

I remember really following (out of dismay) the rise of Fox News, which I think was basically post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Anyone who did so wondered what the place must be like as a work environment. By all outward appearances there was no reason it wasn't on the up and up, but there were still suspicions.

I wish I had an inkling of who it was, so I could give credit, but a poster on these boards wrote weeks ago that it's really weird that we now have a president who a) thinks being president is easy, or b) thinks that being president should be easy.

Why skeptical? For his claim not to be true, that would mean a 40-something man is lying about how much action he got when he was a teenager, and that type of lying has never, never, never happened.

O'Reilly: Are we on the air?
Tech: Mr. O'Reilly, 'On the air' doesn't apply to podcasts. We can start recording whenever you want.
O'Reilly: Well if we're not on the air… how do I know when we're on the air? It doesn't make any sense, when do I, Oh fuck it! We'll do it live!!!

I knew a girl in college who was strangely fixated on that Tori Amos was once raped. Every time Amos came on TV or whatever, my friend would say "DId you know she was raped!?" as if it bolstered TA's credibility or something… still not sure what to make of that.

Have more respect for yourself. At least make it a Diet Coke.

What a bunch of stupid bullshit.

Not sure if it's still on anymore, but the various incarnations of Lisa Ling drove me crazy. She basically practiced sleazy, tabloid journalism and but wrapped it in this self-important here's-me-taking-an-unflinching-look-at-who-we-are-as-a-people! even on topics such as amateur porn, swinging and BDSM… For…