Right, that much is pretty well documented.

Comic book Bane was given a fairly sympathetic back story (imprisoned as a child, etc.) where he was allowed to parallel Bruce Wayne, and then allowed to be at least anti-heroic in Secret Six.

It’s mostly done either (a) with contraband or (b) with non-contraband MacGyver’d into being tattoo equipment.

Yeah, the idea that Foxconn is somehow victimizing Apple is laughable. Apple are the ones who insist upon incredible profit margins; Foxconn are the people who guarantee a steady supply. Apple’s always charged a premium for commodity hardware. What changed from the early Jobs years to the era of it being the most…

What’s with the incomplete pattern here? Did he buy a sweater from the Defective Argyle Factory Outlet?

IIRC, the 1990’s Serpent Society was also a convenient way to try to tie Marvel’s contemporary Earth-616, its licensed Robert E. Howard sword-and-sorcery books (Kull/Conan/Red Sonja), all while tapping into the Cthulu mythos (where Marvel used Set instead of Cthulu).

Reason is a magazine that accepted funding from the tobacco industry to do hit pieces on consumer advocates. NYRB is, of course, a vanity press that will accept any article that a sufficiently obsessive-compulsive writer will submit. Neither of those are really worth mentioning in opposition to the original expose.

As PR for the company, maybe. As marketing of a luxury good, this is de rigueur. Luxury goods depend on snob appeal. You only get snob appeal by acting like a snob, e.g. implying that people who don’t buy $10 bars of chocolate somehow just don’t get it.

Is this the white people version of Bloods and Crips?

Jive turkey is actually available in 15 different varieties here in NY:

It must be said, too, that Sikhs can be very consciously anti-Muslim themselves.

What gets me: each of these incidents had to involve a couple of hours of this guy not reporting his location, not answering radio calls, etc. No one notices this stuff?

They threw a ton of charges at him. I doubt they are holding back against him.

From my sketchy recollection, MADtv could be brutally dumb in terms of actual sketches. They didn’t just drive certain jokes into the ground, they got it pretty damn close to the core.

Gotta say, an orange jumpsuit would be an improvement over this Regis Philbin teal-on-teal monochrome mess.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt: this case is, by its very nature, incendiary. All it takes is one word from the DA said in jest (e.g., “What a nutbar!”) and the state ends up going through totally unnecessary competency hearings and pre-trial motions about sanity.

The angle I’m going with is that after ripping off the feds for student aid money, Trump ran for president to make prosecution more difficult.

Who knows these days, though. It might not have even been anti-choice nuttery but your typical InfoWars crowd’s “CRISIS ACTORZ BE FALSE FLAGGING” crap that happens after these shootings.

I think you omit a couple of options: