Huh, I always chalked her weird hair up to the bizarre ways women would get their hair set back in the day. Never knew it was a wig.

Fair enough. I just disagree, I suppose. :)

Ah, I read it as you were saying their were 25K gun deaths a year, which doesn't work no matter how you slice "gun deaths". But re-reading it I think it was just that your phrasing is a bit clunky and threw me off.

Jokes on the internet are hard, sigh.

I was trying to make a joke about the very double standard you were talking about. Sorry, I guess it didn't land! I couldn't get the structure together.

And that Reagan et al didn't start dismantling those laws fifteen years later.

Well obviously the Sound of Music and Peter Pan were being true to the source material, whereas The Wiz Live… uh… should have been more true to the source material and cast no white people? I don't know, it's hard to think like a troglodyte.

Aren't we all

I haven't had the mental fortitude to watch Fruitvale Station yet, as I hear it's good but incredibly depressing. If Wallace's death scene wasn't heart-destroying enough.

Like all old white people, CBS is uncomfortable with the blacks.

He's fucking hot, that helps a lot.

Wisconsin clearly does not agree, what with their having the highest drunk driving rate in the country.

Apparently pregnant women often have really high body temps, especially the last trimester. Ergo, I vote for winter baby.

Eh, it's not really about the play for me as much as it is sitting in a bar sharing something somewhat positive (or at least less violent than a natural disaster) with a bunch of strangers.

Fruitvale Station, Red Tails, Friday Night Lights… also Fantastic Four but let's not talk about that.

AAARGH, I can't believe we missed that last night because I forgot Thursday football exists. I could have really used a fun event in my week.

Scary. Sorry you're dealing with that.

Hmmm. Kind of implausible, since your numbers would be way off for homicides alone (10-15K a year) and "gun deaths" is generally used to include suicides and negligent discharge as well as homicide.

The stats I've seen are that somewhere between 40-50% of Americans say there is a gun in their home, but with multiple person households that doesn't mean half of Americans own guns. (I'm assuming those numbers also only include adults.)

Apparently Michigan's self defense law allows you to use deadly force to stop a "fleeing felon". Some dumb woman recently shot at people in a Home Depot parking lot because they had shoplifted from the store, and since it was felony shoplifting that's going to be her defense. (Nevermind that those felony thresholds…