I’m not so anxious. I lived in New York during the crack epidemic. I have lived through some other hairy shit otherwise too — during and after 9/11, and I’ve taken it mostly in stride —no panics at airports or anything.

Man, I had to reply to this…

This cannot be done as documentary. It demands a horror / thriller set up.

What I think is interesting, is that for all the talk about Ali being a racist, he was never particularly uncomfortable about talking frankly with them. He had close associates who were white. And yet he never bothered with defensively saying, “But I have white friends.”

I agree that there’s overarching principles in the matter.

TBH, I actually hope that the endgame is Gawker getting shut down. Because really, that’s a formality —the writers would disperse and possibly regroup; I’m sure Denton could start up a new firm on a thinner shoestring or whatever.

It certainly ought to be their concern, in the sense that Facebook is a distributor and an ad network rather than a content creator —and bringing in the appearance of bias (whether it’s against Gawker or Breitbart) raises anti-trust legal issues for Facebook.

Ad agencies recycle all the time. As Thomas Frank pointed out, “I Want My MTV,” was an entire ad campaign that recycled the “I Want My Maypo,” ad campaign.

Too bad that Peter Thiel is an investor in Reddit.

FWIW, you don’t need the windows specifically to vibrate, you just need them in order to let in an IR beam that’s used to detect vibrations off the walls.

See, I don’t think the doomsday bunker idea is that close. A panic room sounds closer —if you’re a high worth individual, you invest in that kind of thing.

There’s something interesting —and interesting, in a morbid way— about reading these statements. Because beyond the wretchedness of victim-blaming, notice how Holtzclaw can’t stick to a narrative about his own actions? He can’t seem to say something as simple as “I was on the other side of town,” or “I did a search,…

The thing is, it wasn’t a short con but a long one. Bill always kept his comedy clean, in that he didn’t curse, but we’re talking about a guy who everybody knew was spending time with Hugh Hefner in the 1960's and 70's. His books are littered with knowing winks-and-nods that boys will be boys and so on. The reason we…

Without seeing the full text of the deposition, I can’t entirely say anything about the tenor about the questioning.

All jokes aside, and at the risk of being “that guy”: it’s an inconvenience to have talkative assholes next to you, or people whipping out bright-ass phones, or whathaveyou. But I feel like I can grumble and deal with that.

The obvious winner is The Pirate Bay.

IIRC, acetaminophen will damage your liver at very high chronic doses, or in combination with something like alcoholism or fatty liver disease/metabolic syndrome.

The thing is, though, while there’s this singular focus among cabbies that “black people don’t tip” (as a stereotype), Europeans never tip unless they’re prompted to because it’s not their culture (universal healthcare and living wages, ha!)

I dunno what the case was exactly but I’m pretty sure “Planet Rock” didn’t just sample “Trans Europe Express.” Bambatta interpolated the keyboard riff, there’s a slight change of tempo and an 808, plus there’s orchestra hits throughout.

Being from NYC: removing tips and harshly punishing declined pickups were ways of trying to remove the bias of individual drivers as demonstrated in the yellow street-hail cabs here.