Meanwhile, my best friend’s father served in Vietnam and lost some very good friends there. He thoroughly enjoyed the Vietnam Special (which was his first exposure to TG) and wanted to see everything else afterward.

...and I didn’t. I just said I didn’t like acknowledging it.

Clarkson has said some pretty -ist and -phobic things over the years. I haven’t forgotten nor seen enough evidence of contrition to forgive.

“Right. We should have 24 hours of despair and moaning, and then we will all have to roll up our sleeves and make this shit shower work.”

Let me be clear: when I’m talking about order of Decemberists albums, I’m using the same gradient as when rating Dark Souls games - I’m arguing about placement of capers on a $100 plate.

No one should know who Jonathan Cheban is.

I’m so sorry. That must be excruciating to witness. Sending warmth and strength your way.

“I thought I was going to have to scroll way farther for this. A 7.3 Excursion is on my ‘because I can I’m a small-dicked asshole’ list. No need for one, but I seriously dig them

When my Mom was abusing opiates she would go from talking to just staring, eyes glazed over. We had a very close friend who was on heroin, and we knew he was doing it again because he would “nod out”, just fall asleep mid sentence, but for some reason, my mother would just stare off into space.

Oh me too. Fuck, I'm responding while listening to Hamilton right now. Hazards had a cool premise and a lot of good songs, but the whole third act just felt like a weird way to resolve the plot.

Yeah, that’s too harsh on Hazards. It’s got a lot of good songs. I do stand by that TKID is a thorough step in the right direction in terms of how to develop a sound, especially by following up with Terrible/Beautiful world.

I agree with you, but in the opposite direction. I’m seeing this as something like a band that decided to build and expand on something tried and true to create something more complex and mature.

I need to find somebody young enough to understand it to translate for me, but what little I understood made me want to lay on my couch with a vibrating hot pad.

I’m a gay man and I lost my fiancee to a brutal car accident just days ago. I’m still in shock and my grieving process is going through all sorts of motions. Sudden death is the worst heartbreak. I feel for the victims and their families and friends.

Because you can’t conditionally support the death penalty.

I'm sure a lot of that 49% have other victims. They either weren't reported before or they committed their crimes in another jurisdiction.

Oh but many of us do know what serial rapists look like.

No shit. Rape is about an assertion of power. People do it so that they can assert dominance. You’re rarely going to find a person who is like “Meh, that one-time power trip was enough for me for the rest of my life.”

I cannot imagine any other criminal scenario in which this is okay. Oh, we have the bullets used in 100,000 murders and each one has a clear fingerprint on the casing, but we aren't running the prints and, funny story, we even misplaced a bunch of the bullets. Sorry for the inconvenience; thoughts and prayers.

I already thought they were pretty damn common so this is grim to say the least.