Exactly. His goal wasn’t to reassure people that guns are safe but to provoke the exact reaction he got.

Starred because I saw the West End Hamilton last night and now understand the joke.

Perhaps it’s just me getting older, but Harry Dean Stanton as Andie’s dad elevated this film.

Yup, we’ve nailed it.

None of which llegitimises the current situation. To me this points to a fundamental issue: when does a situation achieve legitimacy? When does historical events stop being pertinent? At what point does the mess become normalised into de facto statehood?

Aren’t the occupied territories outside the UN-sanctioned borders? I’m not sure about using UN defining the borders as a justification for exceeding those borders.

Brits know how to tip. We don’t tip as much but it’s at least 10%, even back in 2005. I doubt any of those folks would use a calculator to work out 8%.

I’m disappointed that

If making racist comments visible is “defamation”, she might as well sue Facebook.

Of course he doesn’t. By an amazing coincidence, he has precisely the amount of knowledge to be considered an “expert” and win all tangentially related arguments by default.

Starred especially for “twatwaffle”.

You’re right. I assumed if they were talking to him then he must hold some kind of political position.

Also also, ensuring the heart keeps pumping is surely just going to pump more blood out of the gaping holes.

He’s not ignorant. Let’s not let him off the hook. He knows he’s spewing bullshit ineffective ideas, all to maintain some kind of credibility to his NRA funders. Instead of his real constituents.

Man, these guys twist themselves in knots. All these ineffective strategies, convoluted in expression and legal implementation.

Preterites. God’s plan specifically put them there to suffer through an increasingly shitty and godforsaken world.

daddy’s special knee

I never liked American Beauty but assumed that the intention was to portray these people as genuinely terrible–mediocre narcissists in the suburbs thinking they’re so wonderfully insightful and bold and free.

“Administration of Justice” is a weird thing to give a lesson on. Especially if that lesson involves an actual firearm in the classroom.

he admitted that, with this rather chilling quote (via BBC):