Honestly, it would be weird to me to walk into a coffee shop and nobody had tattoos or piercings. Maybe that's just because I'm in L.A., but I have to think that any major city - including Starbucks' founding city of Seattle - would have the same environment.

[Starbucks is] always actively engaged in discussions with our [employees] to determine how to make their experience better and more valuable.

Party City and Spirit Halloween are both huge chains, so the local stores likely didn't know what they were getting until it got there. Some corporate buyer in New Jersey probably makes those decisions.

While it may not be true, it was widely reported (and hence is widely believed) that the 2012 Aurora movie theater mass murderer was inspired by Batman and/or The Joker. In 2011 a man murdered his wife for breaking his Star Wars toys. If anything it is more outrageous to wear Batman or Star Wars costumes, because in…

It's an Old Money thing. Only the bluest of blue-bloods eat a hamburger with a knife and fork.

Well, the style was originally popular with French aristocrats (in fact the rebels of the French revolution were called sans-culottes because they didn't wear them). I'm pretty sure you can't get any fashion-ier than the aristocracy of Paris.

I buy music. I never buy it from iTunes except in the incredibly rare instances when there's an iTunes exclusive I want. I mostly buy music directly from the artist, from Bandcamp, or from Amazon.

"Would the gentleman care for some fresh dandruff on his pasta?"

This is why public shaming of finance bros never works. They are incapable of empathy, and hence incapable of shame.

Someone should probably tell him that all those people secretly hate him.

Literally any conversation that begins "according to Freakonomics" is not going to end well.

Every speaking-toy QA department needs one of those EVP ghost-hunter guys who can listen to absolutely nothing and hear "Hello James welcome to Hell". It would really cut down on incidents like this.

You don't have to remember or care. You don't even have to be informed. It creates a certain environment or feeling. It's not just Apple: in general, people are not willing to give tech companies the benefit of the doubt when something looks fishy to them. You see this same thing every time Facebook changes a feature,…

Jesus yeah, not sure how that one slipped my mind.

Off the top of my head? There was the "oops, we're storing all your location data in cleartext and anyone can access it" thing, and the "Maps is totally ready for release, enjoy your trip to the bottom of the East River" thing. But I wasn't just referring to past bad surprises; I was talking about Apple's general…

As a long-time bookish goth, if they are then I demand an explanation.

Partly it's the sheer audacity of the move. "Here, have this thing that you definitely want because we're so cool and wonderful that there's no possible way you wouldn't want this." Partly it's because people felt like they were being tricked. Given its history, Apple hasn't earned the goodwill for people to look…

Since astral projection isn't necessarily tied to place and time, wouldn't a projector be able to find her anyway by focusing on her image and just going to where it took him? Wouldn't it still probably be a ghost or - more likely - a poltergeist she stopped generating either because of the meds or because the move…

If that worked every bookish goth would be up to their eyeballs in spectral paramours.

I could watch that cat taking down that asshole kid all day.