I guess “original” means “not a sequel.”

She won’t be happy.

I’m Big McLargehuge, and so’s my wife!

That Bennett is considered Matrix’s peer must surely be the most absurd thing about that truly absurd film.

TIME is not something I acknowledge. It’s not up to them to decide the Person of the Year.

It’s ironic how often, while asking questions around the kids’ extended family, they were confronted with some variation of, “why aren’t you out there finding those kids/that girl?” They were almost much shoved away from a major revelation. That crap with the politically-minded DA played to the same theme. And the crim…

It’s hard to credit that two experienced detectives took a full week to wonder why the children lied about their destination the day they disappeared. It’s even harder when one of those detectives, a skilled tracker and an insightful thinker, explicitly describes his approach to each case as “everybody lies,…

For me the external physical act is very satisfying. I found that doing the smoker’s equivalent of air guitar - air smoking, if you will - is almost, but not enough, like the real thing. Can’t have any witnesses around though.

No, no, Will Pacino is his cousin.

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“Friendly advice” that I made clear several comments ago I didn’t care for but you decided to keep pushing on me anyway. What exactly do you call that, Great Diagnostician? Cause I can’t think of a friendly version of you that made that reply. Tell you what, my next comment to you will just be a jumble of random letter…

Ironic how you think you’re here to teach me how to win people over even though I find you’re losing me with every post. Physician, heal thyself.

The relevancy of your point being?

Anyone who cared what I meant was free to ask me or Google “mahershala ali pakistan.” I was actually hoping for the latter option, on the assumption that others have explained it better and with more authority than me. And leading with my point would not have kept the jackasses off my back - it would’ve done the exact …

Both my defensiveness and my snark were warranted. By your own admission, you assumed I was a troll. Even had I expected this shit, I’m in no way obliged to grin and bear it.

I don’t know what to say other than that I did not encounter the situation you describe.

I don’t look at recognitions’ comments unless I’m curious what the professional holier-than-thou offense-takers think or (s)he insists on replying to me. Consider not joining that club. I’m an anonymous person on the Internet, you do not know enough about me to so easily ascribe motives to me; and the edifice of online…

Or I could behave as if I don’t really care if recognitions will question my motives. Life’s too short to waste trying to win games you know are rigged.

Because the article referred to him as a Muslim, and I always find it interesting when the sort of distinction that can mean life or death in one context can be completely ignored in another, to the point where someone seems to have a freakin’ problem with me for mentioning it.

Ali is a convert to the Ahmadi sect of Islam. Ahmadis are persecuted in Pakistan, where the largest number of them live, being barred, for instance, from calling themselves Muslims or calling their houses of worship mosques. One fact relates to the other. Keep racking your brain, you’ll figure it out eventually.