First of all...four officers? I count more than that, and not a single one of them on camera did anything to defuse the situation or render aid to a man who had just been violently attacked.

Trumplestiltskin’s botched rendition aside (goodness, how delicious his isolated audio must be!) can we discuss the very real probability that, based on the statement accompanying this performance, he likely thinks “God Bless America” actually *is* our national anthem?!?!

How does okra work out when brined and fermented?

I know Kilauea is traditionally sacred to Hawaiians, and that the fissures aren’t exactly predictable, but couldn’t a system of berms have been constructed to channel lava away from crucial areas? This isn’t exactly the runny/soupy lava that has flowed from other eruptions, but lava is still incredibly dense and…

I didn’t discover him, but I never sat in that chair again after that, nor did I let friends sit in that chair. Eventually, they got rid of it when they re-did the decor. I’m also always giving people second looks when they’re sleeping on the bus or the train to see if there are signs of life, like breathing or…

Any normal civilian kills a 15 year old child and society and the justice system pulls out all the stops and throws the book at the offender - but when a police officer, who’s trained, armed, armored, is supposed to know better, riding along with another police officer, straight up maims and kills a kid, it’s just…

The thing is, if you call 911, the DISPATCHER decides whether or not to send police, and PD decides whether it’s a priority call or not. She might be the Beckiest Becky in all of Beckydom, but Philly PD has clearly been enabling her.

Maybe the customers really didn’t like the kiosk? The Wendy’s near my home switched to kiosks, and the girl at the register was bellowing for anybody paying with a card to feel free to step over and use the kiosk instead of waiting in line. Well by the time I found all the menu options on the kiosk and completed my…

If it came down to “cashless” vs. “cash only” I’d definitely go for cashless every time. Cash only is a quaint idea that totally glosses over the fact that plastic is safer and quicker. Unless you’re my 90 year old grandfather, who, despite being retired for quite some time, still somehow manages to carry around a…

It’s uncanny how deft #45 is at losing people truckloads of money with the stroke of a pen or the post of a tweet (see Amazon) - does anybody even have the slightest hunch about where his personal investments are? He’s too clumsy and too greedy to not be trying to short stocks, or tip off some “golf buddies” before…

The silver lining on this is that it’s a great real-world example of just how dangerous mass data collection can be, and might help hasten the demise of the Social Security Number as we know it.

Is the “I can’t be alt-right because I’m a Jew” thing a thing now? And how proud are ma & pa Intrater that their enterprising boy bought some nazi-sounding domain names with the goal of flipping them to nazis to make some fast cash? It’s a mitzvah, to be sure.

We’re all going to die down here.

Can we just fast-forward to the time when American Football is no longer a thing already? The sport’s damaging and dangerous enough, but for these kids to dish it out so brutally to a member of their own squad, ya gotta wonder about the prevailing mindset and culture that makes this seem OK.

My take on Xavier, from both the comics and the films, is that he’s high level telepath, but that doesn’t make him omniscient, precognitive or even a very good strategist, but he’s dealing with the hand he’s been dealt.

After another viewing, I’m somewhat disappointed how easily Dr. Strange and Vision went down. Strange has had access to the Time Stone for years, and in the battle with Dormammu alone spent several lifetimes racking up elite experience points using the damn thing....he couldn’t have blasted Thanos into the far off…

Or maybe how about something that even makes more sense in-universe? She was a Sokovia street urchin when Hydra got her, and yeah, she got a uniform upgrade when the Avengers assembled with her a part of the new team, but they literally scooped her up off the streets of Scotland with Vision in her travel clothes...how…

I feel like after New York and Sokovia, Wakanda’s military would’ve doubled down on formidable homeguard/garrison weaponry, if not to protect the the general populace and infrastructure, then at least the vibranium mine and the heart shaped herb garden.

Why did Thanos need to go all frontal-assault on Knowhere? I doubt any of the residents or visitors there would have paid him any heed (they didn’t react much to Ronan, and he was like, in the news), and definitely wouldn’t have stepped up to defend the Collector...or is he just thaaaat eviiiiilll?