I read the The Fault in Our Stars just to make people stop telling people that I needed to read it, and within a month of finishing my partner was diagnosed with colon cancer. I'm pretty sure the book is either cursed or carcinogenic.

It most certainly does serve society to jail an 80 year old Polanski, especially given the high profile of the case. It sends the message that these crimes matter. That money and influence are not impenetrable shields. That's huge for the many rape victims who have not come forward because they feel there is no hope…

She was a violinist. She was accepted to Julliard. Did not attend there but went to another school on a full music scholarship.

Honestly, I do have a hard time believing that a mere accusation is all that it takes to ruin a man's life forever when actual convicted rapists get more sympathy than rape victims.

I assumed that when May electrocuted her, she permanently fused the mask onto Agent 33's face.

The way I think of it is this: racism is like the word theory. There's the academic definition, and then there's the dictionary definition. They're very similar, but they have some important distinctions. The dictionary definition is broader. The academic definition means something very specific.

Brew Dogs is fun if you're into beer, but not so hardcore into beer that you're going to spend the episode nitpicking everything they say.

Please, for the love of eye-patches and Asgard, no more dramatic Coulson speeches. If Coulson needs to make a point about why SHIELD exists, let him do it in his dry, Coulsony way. Maybe a nod. Maybe a misdirect that lets the character realize the point two scenes later. I don't know. I just know that the big rousing…

Unfortunately I have heard of them. Totally agree. The alternative would be to just raze the building.

You don't want to force yourself to eat your favorite food when you have the stomach flu, only to never be able to eat that food again because now you permanently associate it with extreme nausea. Jake was right to not want to turn Eva Longoria into his blonde chicken. One boof is not worth the lifetime of…

Am I the only person who watches The House of Yes every year for Thanksgiving? Please tell me I'm not.

I briefly lived about two miles away from where it happened.They finally tore the house down about five years ago. It had been abandoned for years, and had become mostly a drug squat that super creepy "tourists" sometimes broke into out of ghoulish curiosity.

He's the golden retriever of the people. That's an honest compliment.

Andy Samberg gave us Hot Rod. God bless Andy Samberg.

If Janice was a known addict when that happened, it would have made her a tempting exception to "no famous women" rule because addicts are easily dismissed as liars. Predators don't just target women who have been drinking or using drugs because they are physically easier to overpower. Predators target them because…

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is pretty stellar, not coincidentally another Mike Schur creation.

But but but… stereotypically masculine traits and roles are by definition superior! Once women have sufficiently invaded one of those roles, they lose hero status. Ex: the hacker. That once proud throne has now been completely neutered by the Penelope Garcias of TV. Women can't elevate themselves by emulating men if…

Your preventative measures don't do anything to address rape rates. They're just the equivalent of not being the slowest person running away from the bear. Don't bother trying to reduce the overall number of women who get raped every year, just make sure it isn't you.

The fantasy is thinking that women trying to stop rape through hyper-vigilance and self-policing is going to be more effective than society putting every fucking ounce of responsibility on would-be attackers to control themselves, and then slamming the book on everyone who fails to do so.

Victim testimony is legal evidence of a crime. (I know this because I was a juror for a rape trial once, so I had this explained to me at length by the prosecutor and the judge.) You can dismiss the evidence if you don't think the witness is credible, but testimony is in and of itself evidence.