Eh, we're adults, we can figure out the difference actually liking an event and pressing a button to publicize it.

Well, OK, but some of us joke about others' suffering because we lack empathy, and I'd hate for my fellow Vogons to suppose my apparent callousness might conceal some deeper humanity.

By coincidence, Dave Blood also opened for Rob Crow's performance today by performing "Too Old to Rock and Roll" in 2004.

"Lived happily ever after" is more succinct.

When he's 35, some guy will come up and give him a two-handed handshake and say, "Thank you. You may not recognize me, but when I saw you on television 15 years ago, that was when I knew I wanted to be a boxer."

That would be disastrous. Fact: all the world's strongest economies are built on a foundation of private banknote issue.

Seriously, we're not going to forget a major deity's name just because one possible anglicization of the re-re-organized Ansar al-Islam happens to match it.

I assumed casting Ed Norton was a callback to the similar split personality in Fight Club. Nothing in the movie inclined me to change my mind, but since the movie deliberately straddles the fence, anyone who insists there's one correct answer is being silly. A movie can also be confusing only if you miss the clues to…

I don't claim to have disproved institutional racism. My point was that racial disparities in impacts of police behavior are inevitable given racial disparities in crime rates (and those disparities, along with the crime itself, also affect those who are completely innocent), so proving the existence of such…

Yes, the drop in homicide rates is clear. It's the other half, the rate of killings by police, that is unknown.

I'm sure that happens, but refusing to deal with police is a good way to keep crime rates up. With some exceptions — things that probably shouldn't be illegal in the first place being one obvious example — whatever the flaws our police force has, not having one, or refusing to engage it, is worse. One alternative if…

Do we really have any idea if the numbers of those killed by police are up or down? What was the rate per capita 40 years ago? If the rate has gone up while the murder rate has gone down, that'd be something, but I have no idea. Before the Facebook page Killed by Police, what numbers did we have? Holder implied we…

I don't know what to do about cops getting away with crimes too often. Maybe someone else has better ideas. The problem seems to be less one of how the laws are written than how they are carried out. Skipping the grand jury and always having a trial whenever anyone gets shot is not how our judicial system works. I…

5.8% of homicide suspects in New York City were non-Hispanic whites in 2013. You can argue about the reasons, but homicide figures are some of the most reliable crime figures we have. The shocking thing would be if the rate of being killed by the police were much closer to the overall demographics of the city than to…

If you're not expressing regret, you're improperly expressing something you will regret later.

Tough crowd. It's like a funeral in here!

I don't know the book, but I love the complaint that the fictional characters are not modeling ethical behavior. One degree of separation from reality is enough. One doesn't need a book about someone writing a book about people who set up a scene involving a Nazi who decides he can't morally engage in sex with a…

(McBain is pelted with monocles)

You make a good point. I'm better at not getting things done than everyone I can think of who's famous for not getting things done, so why aren't I more famous than them? It makes me angry.

Well I couldn't before!