But no one else's!

Couldn't care less about baseball personally, but as a Connecticut native the idea of baseball fandom being anything other than a year-long blood-feud rivalry in which one must choose a side is baffling to me.

When has anyone ever bought drugs to "hand out to their buddies?"

Yeah, why would the writers of a show that aims to apply the real-world realities of politics and governing to a classic high fantasy framework waste time on the the real-world realities of politics and governing in a classic high fantasy framework when there are ZOMBIES?!

as @j_charlatan points out above, dismissing criticisms of drone warfare as luddite whining kind of misses the point of the criticism.

I had a biiiiiiiiiiig Zappa thing in high school, and revisit his stuff in a big binge every year and a half or so. Yeah, I think Absolutely Free has aged best for me. Can't say why.

Good info. Hats off, sir.

Any advice on breaking into that sort of field? I'm four years out of school with a B.A. in English lit. I got hired right off the bat as a copywriter for an e-commerce company (product descriptions, some web content, some brochure stuff for trade shows, etc), but pretty early on they mashed my position in with…

I'm actually intrigued!

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Yes, but how much money did you make last month on your laptop?

That'd be awesome. Marseilles is fucking gritty.

Yeah, and then he tried to give me some bullshit about there being enough demand in the open, free market to provide compelling economic incentive for an autonomous actor to open some kind of "jerk store," or some such.

Once, but she was in a coma.

First of all, you don't have to explain. I am also a man. I understand the impulse to jump in with, "but not ME!" It's one that I have had, and do have. But I'm also self-aware enough to step back from that impulse, and realize that it's improper, that I'm not the center of attention. Making this about how men are or…

As I recall #YesAllPeople was the predominant backlash against #YesAllWomen - because the latter wasn't inclusive of men it was therefor sexist, apparently.

I think something that's getting talked around when the discussion is about men rejecting or calling out rape culture/sexism/etc. when they're confronted with it is how much of it men can be blind to - not as a personal shortcoming, but just because people and groups of people naturally have blind spots.
I'm far from…

Heavy Rocks. The 2002 one (orange cover).

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My favorite track on Rain Dogs.