Mnemonics, the weirder the better. I just finished studying for the MCAT and they helped me remember the basics. I also ha a bunch of flash cards in my phone and backpack so I could review while standing in lines, on train.

This is patently bullshit. Where is the Beyonce boycott over her shilling for Walmart? Where is the excoriation of every celebrity that owns an iPhone?

Probably because your pedantic bullshit doesn't advance the conversation.

I am terribly sorry for your loss.

I have been reading your comments. You've made so many that they're hard to ignore here.

That I can agree with. Taking scissors to the memorial in the middle of the day is a little bananas.

You can still have a plot with a plaque in a cemetery or mausoleum without a body. You can also memorialize your loved ones in your own home. At what point do you put a stop to this? If four more kids die in the neighborhood, should there be five constant, garish displays on the street?

I've seen you post similar comments on other threads. People can grieve as long or as little as they want or need, but can you please explain to me what gives them the right to take over public spaces with displays for the deceased? Don't you think that someone in the neighborhood, perhaps also with a deceased child,…

Bigotry? Um... Ok. Joan Rivers has had the same act for literally decades. I suggest you watch her stand-up instead of letting your strident outrage take over. Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Sarah Silverman all make jokes about incredibly painful topics. So yeah, those are comedians I'm…

If you truly believe that Joan Rivers thinks that victims of sexual assault are a laughing matter, you're a daft cow. Comedians make fun of horrible things ALL the time. This is part of the healing and moving on process. I feel sorry for you that your rage stroke gets in the way of you understanding that. Unless…

Nope. When my racist uncle tells a racist joke, the joke's intent is to insult and we don't laugh. Joan Rivers' intent is not to make light of sexual abuse and only an idiot would assume the opposite. Rivers makes Holocaust and rape jokes that are bitterly funny and poignant. Her purpose is to bring to light and…

Actually, that's exactly how it works.

The only thing I'm defending is society from people who say things like "Who is this person?" on celebrity "news" items. It's so boring. Organized religion, Scientology included, can go fuck itself.

You're so EDGY!

Love my Hunter boots. Having the whole thing dipped in rubber makes it harder for them to spring a leak. I bought them after everyone told me they last forever.

You're being obtuse. I can confidently say that 99% of people posting about Paul fucking Walker online will not even remember he died until they run across Fast and Furious on basic cable a few months from now. I get the need to belong to this event and making yourself a part of it, but it is disingenuous and anyone…

I didn't say I didn't care, I am questioning the mass outpouring of faux grieving online. I understand that people are sad, this IS very sad. But, what I don't understand is the grandstanding of emotion from people. I saw it after Lou Reed passed, when people who had never breathed a word about Lou Reed were suddenly…

And you think the people of the Internet are truly mourning a grieving an actor whom they have never met and whom has had zero impact on their lives? Really? Nobody will rememeber this in January, just like nobody gives a shit about Brittany Murphy or Cory Monteith anymore. Everyone is trying to out-mourn each other…

It's not pedantic. Words have meanings and we can't bandy about "tragedy" every single time someone dies. It dilutes the meaning of the word. Paul Walker's death will mean nothing to people five days from now, unless they knew him personally. Everyone's rush to show how SO SAD they are over this is an exhibitionist…

I know he wasn't driving, and that's still NOT a tragedy. It's just a very sad thing. We can be sad about very sad things without hyperbole.