I just use bitten/ripped off fingernails. They’re free.

Glad I watched the clip before I joined the “That Guy” club.

So I guess I’ll be the one that says it. The phrase is “All intents and purposes.” Intensive purposes doesn’t make any sense.

For all intents and purposes....

*intents and purposes

You might not realize it, but November surfing in non coastal locations is fucking HUGE in the East.

Welcome to Columbia, MD. Home of the chain restaurant.

This looks like it was designed by a 14 year old from 1997 who was paid with a 12 pack of Surge.

Will the moat keep out smallpox?

I’ve often said the only thing missing from the Fedex field experience is a dedicated mosquito preserve on premises.

the concept of government by the people in the way we have it didn’t even come to the fore until the French intelligenstia started getting wasted in their salons in the mid 1700s. It’s not even just ignorant on American history, but world history at large. I mean, c’mon JK. It’s not that hard to read A People’s…

Don’t feel bad I routinely refer to Africans, in Africa, as African Americans in front of my classes...embarassing...

Yay, shutting down discussion with memes and argumentum ad verecundiam.

Because it’s IO9, they have a history of that sort of thing. Critical voices that don’t support the thing that they want to be critical of are rarely un-grey.

Me neither. It’s absolutely nuts. It’s as if people are so stereotype-averse that they’re loath to ascribing any kind of characteristic whatever to a people, even one which is true. I thought the description gels perfectly well Native American history.

My geographical location has nothing to do with my ability to make moral judgements. How ridiculously condescending of you, and exactly the kind of insane moral logic I’m talking about.

ive been saying the same for years. if Jeep was given the go ahead to build a wrangler based pickup (especially with that glorious retro front end) it would sell like crazy. they would need to play keep away from the Ram 1500 to avoid in house competition, however i figure you market those to two different groups.…

Your pizza tastes are bad and you should feel bad.

It is well-established that Republicans are more charitable givers and volunteer more than Democrats. (Sources: Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Federal Agency for Service and Volunteering.) If you count stuff like hand-wringing over who had more Oscar nominations, you might have a point.

Books from GRRM are never late, and are never early. They arrive precisely when they mean to.