I think Fear & Loathing was a case of the source material matching the director. The original is a chronicle of a rapidly escalating out of control Vegas trip with the incredibly vague “Searching for/mourning the loss of the American Dream” as a supposed connective thread. Thompson’s pseudo-journalist pose (I believe)…

It needs to be an app so that you have to submit your info to a third party, who can then turn around and get rich selling the anonymized data for marketing and advertising purposes, obviously. 

Can’t you just do genetic screenings to see if you and your partner are carriers of whatever diseases you have in your respective families? Why turn it to a dating app? I’m not going to date someone just because neither of us has the genes for Huntington’s disease. And if it did turn out both me and my partner are…

One of the main points the 9/11 commission made was TSA screeners needed to be the entry point for a career in law enforcement. It can’t be a dead end job or it won’t attract the right people.

The original thread on twitter has quite a few of those. The ‘well, actuallies’ vary, but I think my favorite has to be the ‘coaches do that to athletes all the time as a sign of camaraderie and to motivate, which is obviously what’s going on in the video’, oblivious to the fact that 1. he’s not a coach; 2. she’s not…

Anytime I see “Youth Pastor” or “Youth Minister” or some other “I’m paid by a church to work with teens/kids” job... I always have the Pedophile Alarm go off in my brain.  I just can’t NOT think it.  Child predators seek out those jobs on purpose to gain access to vulnerable youth.  I know that not all people who seek…

Eh, the lawyer knows that what the client did is indefensible, and it’s on video, so Bozarjian has him dead to rights. The lawyer’s just throwing out any weak BS  to make their client look not so bad and distract from what he did. Much like the  Republicans during the impeachment hearings. Callaway’s got nothing.

From the Heavy article:

I was born in 1945, and a tweet stating “”Boomer(s)...grew up with a sense that females are playful and were raised watching females being okay with being objectified for their looks...” is a perfect encapsulation of what it was to be a female in those days. We weren’t so much okay with being objectified, there just…

Because they don’t believe in Jesus, they just like to use him as a human (spiritual?) shield to protect them from criticism of their actions.

Yeah, pretty sure a loving husband wouldn’t smack/grab another woman’s ass with or especially without consent. And let me guess, at least one of his kids is a daughter, so he’s implicitly teaching her that her body doesn’t belong to her, but to any man who wants to get a handful.

“My name is Tommy Callaway, and I managed to have a long, intimate relationship with an adult woman and raise two little girls without ever once considering how fucked up it is to treat a woman’s body like public property. That proves what a good guy I am, right?”

“Tommy is a loving husband and father.”

When a person does something like this to somebody else in public like that, it’s an implicit assertion to everyone who sees it and to the person they’re doing it to: “Look at what I can do to embarrass you. Look at how I can get others to laugh at you by humiliating you. Look at how I can control how others see you…

You also have to be a minister at some church and be a Boy Scout leader not yet caught molesting boys.

he, “did not act with any criminal intentions”

So if I get a wife and kids I can assault people? That’s the defense?

Your job brings joy to me. So do it for free. It’s my right.

Damn I love that movie. I gotta re-watch it. 

There’s a scene in “Man Bites Dog”, where a documentary crew following a serial killer comes across another serial killer being followed by another, better funded, documentary crew, so the first serial killer murders the second serial killer and his documentary crew, and then tells his own documentary crew to use the…