He should know he’s spent a lot of time around the human torch.

To be fair, The Dark is Rising missed the tone of the novels so much that it barely qualified as an adaptation.

“Whedon’s current issues stem from his recent wedding to Canadian artist Heather Horton”

I was a very lonely 11-year-old whom everyone bullied. My teacher let me stay in the classroom during lunch so I could read in peace, and she gifted me with the first Harry Potter book (which was controversial, because it was a Christian school). I instantly connected with the character, and eagerly awaited the second…

supposedly an attorney for the fake law firm Pope & Dunn

Serves her right. That entire party knew it was cuddling a rattlesnake to its bosom and won’t put it down no matter how many times it bites.

“Shows such as Suits led John Lambert to believe he could ‘practice’ at being a lawyer by performing tasks that he believed would be beneficial to his customers without significant risk, just as the character ‘Mike Ross’ in ‘Suits’ practiced law without a law degree or license and kept that secret without penalty,”…

Cheney seems to think she is battling Trumpism alone. But Trumpism is the entirety of the Republican Party. Trump is the natural conclusion of the anti-intellectualism and state sponsored fake news ushered in by Bush and her father. McCain and Palin entrenched it. Trump is simply benefiting from the ground work laid…

As someone who got seriously hammered in the last big recession in 2009-2010, unemployment benefits are helpful, but you’re right, they sure as hell don’t replace your previous salary. I lost one of the best jobs I ever had and was out of work for 9 months. Then I found contract work that saw me through about a year…

Unemployment typically does not cover 100% of your lost wages. Even with the $300 supplement, the Chamber of Commerce’s own analysis shows that 75% of people collecting unemployment are getting less than they got from working. It’s highly unlikely that there are a significant number of people turning down jobs because…

I heard one restauranteur that moaned about applicants who never showed up for interviews, or were offered the job but ghosted, and blamed it on people fulfilling unemployment benefit requirements to search for jobs. Instead of taking that insight as an acknowledgment that unemployment benefit requirements are very…

It’s the $10 leather couch bullshit.

If you have to live your life constantly armed and prepared for any sort of attack on you, isn’t that kind of the epitome of victim mentality? So afraid or certain of danger that you’ve allowed nascent paranoia to consume every action?

Lets break something out of the Kinja vault to suit the mood here:

Guns are the second-leading cause of death of children and teens in the United States, after motor vehicle crashes. In 2016, the most recent year for which data are available, they killed nearly 3150 people aged 1 to 19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

Yo Dog, I heard you like yachts, so I put a yacht on your yacht

The gift that keeps on giving:

Yo Dawg, I heard you like yachts, so I put a yacht in your yacht...