Not to mention, she very pointedly didn't name names.

We Americans don't have a fixed metric for counting the number of mass shootings in our country because our Center For Disease control has been continually restricted from studying it by Congress, acting on complaints from the National Rifle Association. But that's unremarkable and I assume every wealthy, developed…

Disgruntled 20-something young men opening fire in a crowded public place? I'm not saying it's uniquely American. Just that America is currently running a more-than-once-per-day average this year.

Remember the time they ran a headline saying that Matt Weiner definitively settled what happened in the ending of Mad Men, and not only did he not definitively settle it, but went out of his way to avoid talking about it at all?

Is it just me, or is this article worded in a way that there's no indication that any of the quotes in that paragraph were actually in response to "that Gawker stuff"?

Guns are not only unique in how our culture fetishizes them—a lot of these people have this John McLane power fanatasy vision of themselves—but they're also really easy to obtain and really easy to kill people with.

And, if anything, they're disproportionately unlikely to be mass killers.

"Our products are very safe. (In the right hands.)"

Pretty much.

Maybe if this drives enough interest, we'll get a decent re-release of Paul Schrader's movie.

20 kids got gunned down at Sandy Hook by one guy and we didn't change. At all.

Bullshit. I've been around goats before, and they've never killed me.

We could use a national attitude adjustment when it comes to guns. A lot of pro-gun activists use very reasonable language—the whole idea that we'd be better off if we understood and respected guns better—but they don't walk the walk.

Here's the bizarre thing. There is plenty to debate about Clinton purely in terms of policy and public record—you know, important things that actually make a practical difference in our lives.

Good to know that the battalion of guys cobbling together synthesized brass BWAAMs in Pro-Tools are still going to get bested by an old dude who still uses staff paper and India ink.

"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"

Buzz Hightower
Rod Benchpress

No, but it 's okay, because they came back via continuity error.

…Mother of god, Shane Black? Really? Holy fuck.

I can't wait for the long-delayed fourth movie when Jesus is recast (having aged out of the role) and it's basically two hours of non-stop chases, flame throwers, and general ass kicking.