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I wish it had died when someone in development said “140 characters? What’s the fucking point, this is stupid.”

There’s a difference between pissing on your hands and getting piss on your hands. If you use a urinal, microscopic mist and spray are pretty much unavoidable.

If you shake hands, you’ve shaken piss hands. I’m always alarmed at how often folks leave the men’s room without washing (or even rinsing) their hands. And that’s with people around to witness it!

Those two deserve each other. If only the rest of us could be spared. 

There are still some good writers here, and more than a few good commenters. It just always feels like the hallways are empty. 

>whatever actor takes over for Benicio del Toro after he reads the script and says “fuck no.”

The whole raid into Juarez is just an incredible set piece, and that scene is the perfect climax. 

I was hoping against hope with that the trailer was doing what trailers for good movies have to do, which is to make it look as dumb as possible to trick people into seeing it. The trailer for the first one definitely played up the action as well, though this looks like despicable truth in advertising.

This confirms my worst suspicions about this movie. (Not to mention the trailer copy, “the next chapter in the Sicario saga.”)

What’s your point?

They disagree on how much a government ought to HELP its people, but on the ways that the government is currently, actively HARMING its people and policy solutions to those problems, there’s a lot of overlap.

For the record, I do NOT believe that life on earth was seeded by an alien race. That said, compared to most other creation myths, it’s pretty much the only one that I don’t think is impossible. 

Definitely not, but it’s nice to think about. 

Exactly. Democracy—with its attendant rights, pluralism, and checks on power—is the enemy. They’re not undermining it at ever turn by mistake. 

The cable news networks are, without exception, horrible. I hate that so many liberals reflexively defend CNN/MSNBC. Just because the Fox crowd hates them for the wrong reasons doesn’t mean they’re worth defending on anything but First Amendment grounds.

I wouldn’t write it in my own voice, but to conjure an archaic effect—like a Monty Burns or T. Herman Zweibel or William F. Buckley sort of voice—if it was a lightning/lightning-bug situation, I could see using it without feeling a pang of conscience. It’s a far-fetched, hypothetical situation, but that’s what I meant

That’s one that I wouldn’t speak, but could conceivably write. It doesn’t look as bad as it sounds.

If we’re talking about the neutron bomb, then yes. 

The chain was the least of my concerns, in that I didn’t think about it until after the episode was over.

John Hodgman.