They're going all out for the dialog this time. The only breaks to his talking about smashing and wrecking will be when he downs another beer at the bar he never leaves.

An HBO vice-CEO pulled for "Harder!" with a full mouth, but standards and practices turned it down, so Hodor died unhappy.

Buses already have tailpipes for that.

Interspecific Rim

Stage 1, Republican Trump rejection. "If Trump wins the nomination, Democrats will try to win arguments on that fact for the next 30 years."

No, the planet is actually running out of people.

My fault! Yes, I can buy that, between people moving more, it being easier to talk to people outside your neighborhood (like right now), and maybe fewer neighbors whose children force them to interact.

The last time homicide rates were about this low was 1963. Over the following ten years, the rate doubled. So unless the period you're thinking of is at least 50 years ago, safety was not generally a feature. As has been pointed out ad nauseam in the whole free range kids discussion, parents do try harder to protect…

Okay, that's twice now (along with Beautiful Mind) that I have heard that imaginary people don't get older.

"Don't call us 'you people', we'll call you 'you people!'" — H. (Hollywood) Ross Perot.

Assuming you order comments from oldest to newest like a patriot, you can disprove your thesis by opening http://www.avclub.com/artic… and advancing to Ayatollah's Open Thread and then minimizing it. At this moment, the first press of More Comments after that will have no visible effect, while the second one will.…

As I think we agree on, firefighting is not like a doctor helping a passerby who suddenly has a heart attack. It's an expensive risky operation that a private company can't afford to regularly engage in without compensation (whether from the owner or the government, and if it's the government that pays, then that kind…

Great idea. You'd get tons of sympathy upvotes.

"Bell and her boyfriend said they were aware of the policy, but thought a fire would never happen to them."

Never let it be said that good snark depends on being correct. The Savage Love comment thread would be an effective and thematically appropriate place for you to examine your premature induction issue.

You are aware that it is allowed to press the "more comments" button a second time? (That is, just because you didn't see anything happen the first time does not mean you have to un-minimize the thread to make the button work, you just have to keep pressing until you have loaded enough comments to get to the next…

The Fantastic Four Meet the Oogieloves to combine the power of the properties with the best reputations in cinema.

As far as I can tell, the salmonella issue consists of the chain's restaurants having salmonella rates closer to that of independent restaurants than to other chains which have below-average rates due to more standardized and/or centralized cooking.

Assuming its premise is true, which I don't know but I'm willing to grant, why not just lean forward with elbows or arms on knees? That works well enough, so I have to assume this is pitched at people who have a stubborn but as far as i can tell unnecessary habit of sitting straight up.

If I could do that, I'd never leave the house.