I know the optics of actually closing the (brand new, ginormous) embassy wouldn’t be good, but between the terrible recent COVID outbreak there, and how quickly the Taliban seem to be clawing back the country region by region, I can’t wrap my head around how anybody in the State Department actually thinks keeping ANY…

I know a couple people suggested ejector seats, but a couple seats designated as “time out” seats set aside (or maybe in place of the flight crew jump seats) with proper anchor points and a set of locking belts/straps (e.g. psychiatric/humane restraints) seems prudent and easy enough to put in place, especially on…

Here’s two high-profile in-flight incidents (the drunk groping frat douche) on busy routes within just a week(?) ...where are the air marshals?

Between the propellant and the fumes of the individual chemical components, everybody on that plane would be in a huffing stupor for the remainder of the flight.

Can somebody please reach out to ‘lil Chet and let him know that his full-body tatt work involved a few thousand times more toxic, magnetic, and non-FDA-approved chemicals than a whole freezer full of COVID vaccine? Translate it into Hanx-speak/patois, whatever for him first.

I think that’s what makes it so dangerous. Totally changing direction is two right turns, or 180 degrees, or 648,000 seconds of arc...or in other words, the trip to Mar-a-Lago begins with a single step.

Except that the fleeing Floridians are just going to smear delta everywhere they go at this point, like explosive diarrhea on a cruise ship. Normal Florida tourism and snowbird travel has proven bad enough in getting delta variant into even the smallest and most remote communities...imagine what happens with a mass…

Imagine a healthcare system where the profit motive is so strong health workers dilute a life-saving vaccine to the point it’s ineffectual, or divert the legit vaccine completely to a black market. Say it were a mass vax site where people come from a wide ranging area, and only people coming for a second dose, so as…

Aside from stripping this ghoul of her licensure and barring her from administering medicine ever again, I hope the German authorities can do a deep dive into her patient data. By illegally and unethically creating a control group, I hope some valuable data might at least be gleaned...what was the rate of infection,…

I think the issue might be that we’re being asked to care disproportionately for dead cops. This officer was one of ten Chicagoans killed this past weekend, the two officers shot were less than 4% of the total people shot last week...the news media all showed up at the hospital to show hundreds of cops and first…

The first 4 lines of your final paragraph kinda puts it in perspective. Gun crime is a problem in Chicago and civilians get killed every week - usually young people of color, and the media and general public usually barely notice. The Chicago Police Department, on top of various issues of bigotry, use of force…

You left out corollary 8: these anti-vax, anti-mask memes and social media posts are being spit out, circulated, and amplified by the same off-shore bot (or “zombie” or “puppet” account) army that delivers election misinformation and other various and sundry conspiracy theories.

They used a re-engineered measles virus, so I guess there’s *that* connection to the anti-vaxxers...

The Vincent Price version from the 1960's, The Last Man on Earth, is a classic, and happens to be in the public domain, so you can stream it for free.

An on-duty police officer blasting Taylor Swift at demonstrators on the court house steps sure seems like a “public performance” to me (certainly not covered under Fair Use). Maybe Swift should go after the sheriff’s department with a copyright claim of her own, at the very least, a cease and desist.

Yeah...parsing through that, it did not come off nearly as professional or law-abiding as I’m sure it was meant to sound.

Unpacking those two sentences is everything. Even a comparatively sane and presumably upright cop stops short of setting colleagues straight. I fixed it for him:

Gonna go out on a limb and venture that McDonald’s has a “gentleman’s” agreement with Taylor. The softserve base is formulated and sized for Taylor machines that McDonald’s has contracted to buy and have serviced (and requires franchisees to buy/subscribe to)...McD’s probably gets a small price break for the volume,…

With the way Marvel and DC have revolving doors for artists and writers, I think part of the issue is actually tracing lineage back to a “creator” vs. everybody along the way who embellished, retconned, modified, updated, etc.

Biggest one everybody seems to forget: if you don’t drink tap water, don’t brew coffee with it. If your tap water tastes like rust, or chlorine, or smells like rotten eggs, or leaves a filmy aftertaste, I will guarantee that running it through your coffee maker is gonna yield coffee that tastes/smells just as bad, but…