I've gotten so used to manufactured outrage that I clicked on Stanley's article with the expectation of reading a perfectly normal, inoffensive puff piece that maybe used the phrase to suggest how other people have minimized Rhimes. But nope - right there, very first line: 'When Shonda Rhimes writes her…

I don't even really understand the point of that feature. "Recently watched" is all well and good when you're working your way through a series, but "recently watched" movies? Do a lot of people re-watch movies that they saw within the last month or so?

It's like "Help, my TiVo thinks I'm gay". I watched "Attack on Titan" and all of a sudden the majority of my recommendations were anime. Sure, I liked that one, but just because I watched it doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to start watching superdeformed cat-girls.

That's the first one I went to. It's surprisingly well arranged. I mean, it's bike horns, but it's a lot of them and they're harmonized probably about as well as bike horns can ever be.

The…plants…do not wish…to be edged. The green…cries out…for mulching.

If I ever become a fish-themed heel in a German-based Mexican wrestling league, my name will totally be El Karpador.

"Does Japan import a lot of foreign words into its language": very much yes. But what you actually seem to be asking is if they import a foreign *definition* into native Japanese, like the Chinese do - in which case no, not often. They have a ton of straight-up loanwords (gairaigo), and most of the time they even use…

Wait, if neither side is marked, how do you know the double grooves are on the SECOND side? <strokes chin="" thoughtfully="">

I managed to get through the article somehow misreading Greenpeace as "Green Day".

I have no idea in which era this no-doubt-painstakingly-historically-accurate cancelled series occurs. But if it's very very late (like around when Egypt was overrun by vampires, apparently), do we have any idea exactly how bronze the Ptolemaic pharaohs looked? I mean, before they started interbreeding with their own…

Turning Finn and Jake into caterpillars was one thing, but remixing Tokyo Police Club? This time Magic Man has gone too far.

That's true, but he's not remembered as a CEO, he's remembered as an inventor. "Edison stole ___ from ___" is a uniquely inventor-oriented dickishness, rather than what we'd expect from robber barons or your ordinary 1%-types.

"My son's."

Fortunately neither this article nor the Oatmeal goes too far into tinfoil territory. It's usually hard to find something online about Tesla without running into how we'd all be enjoying free electricity and teleportation and Kane would have helped the Soviets win the war and whatever, except The Man kept him down…

I find your comment reductive, and your portrayal of pop-culture writers who do list articles about the handicapped borders on offensive. These writers are PEOPLE, dammit, they're not magical or cute!

Modell is referring to Thornton's crazypants radio interview many years later. Easy to get confused, it's usually O'Neal that makes "Would you ask Tom Petty that question?" jokes.

It's as if the Platonic ideal of the MPDG went and got the Flowers for Algernon treatment. Guiding us through this emotional minefield are the rock-solid acting chops of the girl from Adventures in Babysitting. Just…wow.

Bess of the d'Urbervilles

There's no such thing as a "ruggedly handsome" woman.

It was pretty ragged and the protagonist too dislikeable…maybe in the Archer mold, but without the charm…but it had potential. Every episode had at least one genuinely funny bit that I couldn't imagine being on any other show. The supporting cast was good and the voice work excellent. And it looked as if they figured…