And as with everything involving Make A Wish kids, I suspect everyone was thinking "not like he'll ever know if we use it or not…"

Also, depending on where you are in northern WI, the population is sparse enough that 20 teens could generate a "hotspot".

His career is a testament to how far being competent, reliable, and generally pleasant to work with can get you in Hollywood. Once you've reached a sufficient level of stardom, at least.

Which has lead some people to hail him as a cutting-edge auteur - because if something in film is well known and inaccessible, then *some* French cinephile somewhere is going to decide it's amazing.

He also was in the Hollywood system for a single movie. Hard to slot him into a trend when he only provides one data point.

The film's original ending didn't. And the fact that the film's second act still features "wait, they're demonstrating intelligence and empathy" plot beats shows how they hastily rewrote it.

I realize it's pure ad hominem…but the author is a white guy from rural Oklahoma who conducted his research "without fear of what politically incorrect implications that might produce." Doesn't mean he's incorrect, but I'm a little leery of his motivations.

"…the format suited lowbrow zingers and crowded out other kinds of jokes."

If nothing else, it's matching Confederate for historically impossible premise.

Mostly because our culture pretty unanimously agrees that the Nazis winning WWII would be an unmitigated tragedy (at least until recently). Opinion is still shamefully divided on the American Civil War.

Between being denied the 2000 nomination, getting stuck with the obviously unwinnable 2008 nom, and finally watching the GOP sell the nation out to the same country that (by proxy) *tortured him*, I can see McCain looking to do as much damage to McConnell and the rest of the Republicans as he can.

Has Poe's law been expanded beyond applying to fundies? Because I really wish there was some Edgelord's Law we could cite here.

What, are you suggesting that someone who responds to every response on his obvious flamebait post might *not* be happy and well-adjusted?

The two were musically similar, but I don't think Chester was clearly and frequently hateable as a person. At least nothing on the level of Durst.

I think the punchline here is that Stallone is capable of writing a good *story*, in the singular.

"You never want a man who's really talented at killing people…until you *desperately* want a man who's really talented at killing people."

Germany did it because, having lost two massive wars within living memory, it didn't really have a choice. Every losing side nurses their "if only…" ideas about how they could/should/would have won, but the Germans were about the only people who got to test them.

Proof that rock-solid graphic design can overcome *anything*.

Here's your *alternate* alternate history: Lee signs on with the Union and militarily defeats the CSA within a year. This does nothing to resolve the underlying issues, which boil over into another Civil War during the middle of World War I.

in the vein of "Even Hitler founded Volkswagen", I've pointed out that without the Nazis, present-day Germany would be the westernmost part of Eastern Europe, instead of the easternmost part of Western Europe.