There are quite a few plants alive today that are far older than 1500 years . . . individual specimens can be up in the 4-5000 year old range.

As a recovering bulimic, the Gaga thing is triggering as fuck. Like, legit triggering. I hate her so much.

That is sofucking irresponsible for someone who says they suffered from bulimia. I don't care if it's art. I'm getting sick of female "entertainers" trying to leapfrog each other with ridiculous acts to get attention.

Why can't people just write songs, put them on records, and play them on stage? Is it that hard to just do that?

The thing is, as much as I want it to be the adults 'just don't understand' and clutching their pearls over ALL OF THE LOST INNOCENCE, I'll lay ten to one odds it's just about not getting sued by some parent.

It's like they don't even bother with the pretense that they are trying to train them for jobs in journalism. It's absurd. That's a quality, substantive piece. I'd fall all over myself with pride if my teenage students put together a story like that.

It's a really well done article and a shame that the school wants to stop this kind of work from talented young minds.

I'm impressed enough that it was even written for a student newspaper. The fact that the students are now battling censorship like that just makes them all the more admirable.

I fully expected both the main characters to die in the finale, so their survival was a pretty big twist for me. Also it was the real resolution of the season - the show hasn't really been about serial killers and the supernatural but about the kind of people who choose to fight those elements of the world. That Rust…

I understand this complaint, but the one problem is that complaint wants a show that's entirely framed around the perspectives of two flawed protagonists to be about someone else. If it were more of an ensemble show, then no problem, bring her in more. But I don't know if we should be too concerned that the show…

I think the beer can men had a purpose, out of all of the 'red herrings' I'm still trying to let go. By that point, we now know that Rust had seen the video of Marie Fotenot, which featured five (beer can) men, and he also had discovered that Rev. Tuttle was involved. He clearly suspected that this cult went up very…

At least it didn't outright cheat. Pizzolato makes Rust's transformation plausible using the near-death experience as the catalyst. It is well documented that people can undergo radical personality changes with these experiences, regardless if the experience itself is true or not.

I didn't see Childress as white trash so much as a kind of southern-style Grey Gardens, some mouldering of ancestral power into rot. He's a homicidal vegetable with a flawless James Mason impersonation.

I thought it succeeded because nothing was tidied up. They got "their" guy, and that was as far as it was going to go. The TV broadcast mentioned "no ties" to the Tuttle family, which was a way of saying "this thing is way bigger than two persistant detectives, and one scapegoat." There is still a tremendous amount of…

"Basically, this ending was the perfect example of Rust's nihilist philosophy. There is no meaning in anything."

What kind of ending was this? A brilliant ending. They answered what needed to be answered. They even gave us fresh eyes by showing us a perspective separate from Rust and Marty: the killers, who was clearly decadent and deranged. This is probably one of the most fitting, appropriate, and earnest finales I've seen.…

"Procrasturbation" is my new favorite word.

Tyson is the right man at the right time to introduce a new American generation to science and to the idea of loving to learn.

Since gum disease is basically just advanced gingivitis (if I remember correctly), and it helps with gingivitis...

that's exactly how i read it as well. i was all wtf?