I think the NBA and NFL drafts and preseason college rankings and pundit predictions etc have proven that the people who rank these things are, if I'm being charitable, taking barely educated guesses.

More than anything this chart makes me distrust PER as an accurate measure of value. There's no way Faried or JaVale should be ranked higher than Hibbert, and how is Sessions above George. Not to mention George Hill being having a PER 0.1 higher than Tyrus Thomas. I understand how Hollinger came up with the…

I think I saw that movie.

People who desperately want attention and think they are God's gift to mankind, I suppose.

Oh also, for fuck's sake, there's an old white guy teaching them how to shake their asses and provocatively eat bananas. If that doesn't make it completely visually indistinguishable from the original I don't know what would.

They do look like they were having a lot of fun. Especially when one dancer licked that white pill thing, as if she was saying, "hahaha, fuck you, Miley!"

No, you "do", or rather, you can, parody something by producing something that is almost visually indistinguishable, if the words you are singing provide a counterpoint to those images. Parody is imitation with inversion. As long as the inversion is apparent — which it is in this case — it is a parody.

I don't quite understand how people are missing this point.

The mostly black backup dancers are references to the general pop climate right now and mainly Rihanna and Miley Cyrus' image/ behavior (that a lot of other people are trying to emulate). Lily Allen doesn't usually have all black backup dancers. They're part of the satire in this case and were in all likelihood a very…

I think the auto-tuning was part of the satire, because you're right, she doesn't need it.

I think that's the most messed up thing. I mean, obviously we shouldn't be putting graphic sex in movies that kids are allowed to watch, but this idea that sexuality—a normal thing that we all experience—is worse than putting bullets in people's heads is just nuts. Recently I was talking about YA books with a family…

R ratings are usually due to language or sex, unless there is over the top crazy amounts of violence. It's okay to kill, just no fucking or saying fuck.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a great documentary about how films are rated. It really drives the point home that the ratings are based on the opinions of 20 some odd suburbanites living in the greater Los Angeles area.

James Dolan is the rich kid that saw someone playing guitar really well so he bought the most expensive one he could find, and now he doesn't understand why, no matter how many expensive peddles and amps he buys, he isn't good at guitar.

That's what it used to look like when I'd switch to the wrong player on defense in NBA 2K.

Uh, no. I was raised in the 70s and 80s, and this kind of thing was very, very common. It's just that no one talked about it. It was usually isolated to rich kids and football players in my experience. Good parents actively discouraged their daughters from going anywhere near either one in my hometown. My mother was…

Imma need Benson and Stabler to be real and to fly to Aukland, New Zealand.

Happened in my sister's college dorm in the 80's, happened in my high school twice that I know of. In AA I've heard identical stories from women as old as in their 60's. My parents remember a girl who was "taken advantage of" by a frat in the 50's. There were no social media platforms but there were Polaroids, vicious…

That is really interesting to hear.

These boys have failed themselves. They're the rapists. It's not their parents fault, it's not their coaches fault, it's not their victims fault. ITS THEIR FAULT.