I think there's a part in a Fitzgerald story where the protagonist sends of a drunk telegram that he immediately regrets.

That's pretty much the perfect steroids movie, covers both sides of the argument very fairly while still having a strong thesis, ties it into the director's personal life to give the emotional heft, and also connects the issue to a larger understanding of the character of our nation. Pretty good for 100 minutes.

Herbie? I don't know which ones are considered good, but I watched 'Monte Carlo" and "Goes bananas" constantly.

I thought I remembered seeing that scene as a kid on TV once. Never knew it was Air Bud.

About once a week I'll read a single sentence out the hundreds of news articles I read each week, something innocuous like Donald Trump is now going to have to decide what our strategy in Afghanistan is going to be and the realization of what happened socks me in the gut.

Chemical names are a good source, something like 1,2-Dichloroacetate has letters, numbers, symbols, and capital letters. I pick mine out the index of a textbook I keep on my desk.

So he'll be completely disconnected from both political parties, he doesn't hold the judiciary, his grip on the military is weak, he has a majority of talk radio but he only has one TV network and no major newspapers, and I'm not really certain how good his grip on the business class is.

Like I was thinking in the original thread, there are some dumb fucking kids out there who aren't taught to spell properly. I bet many people can say this, but I worked for a guy in retail who would routinely misspell words when he hand-wrote stuff.

I was talking about the same article here as well, but sourced it to the WSJ by accident.

They had a a great article about the producer behind the "Fruit Ninja" movie in the WSJ today. Loads of great stuff in there, like how after the success of "Joe Millionaire" he wrote a spec script and pitched a reality dating show called "Green Card". Yes, it's what you think it is. Apparently theres a whole bucket of…

And 14% of Democrats think Hillary won the Electoral College. While half of trump voters think he won the popular vote. The Right only has a majority stake on stupid.

Or both if you're Nabakov

Just like Christmas.

Yeah, the picture of real Beyonce in the header makes her look relatively fair-skinned as well. Whatever, between lighting, good makeup, and Photoshop you could probably make her look whiter than me if you wanted.

Well, except for the fact that the Confederate States had never existed separately from the US except when they were territories while the Soviet Republics had been their own independent nations with different cultures, languages, ethnicities, etc before they were subsumed by Russia. Also the concept that it's…

Really, there's people who don't believe that stuff still happens? Between Islamophobic right wingers and Malala-reading leftists I thought pretty much every Westerner was caught up on the whole "It can really suck to be a women in Islamic theocracies"

Yeah, except if you look at any country's history where they had to deal with the aftermath of a brutal civil war or the fall of a oppressive dictatorship, you never get full justice. There's always some uneasy reconciliation with your former enemies and oppressors. Post-Nazi Germany, Post-Soviet countries,…

I remember I was in a Burger King in high school and we saw a classmate who'd been kicked out of school for starting a brawl that got in the local paper. For some reason, he was changing out Burger King's garbage even though he definitely didn't work there and he also had a garden hose. We were too scared to ask him…

Hey, when he finally completely loses his marbles to stress-induced dementia and is reduced to a gibbering wreck I'm sure Ivanka will make a wonderful temporary Queen Regent until her child comes of age, as will be decreed in Trump's final executive order.

I'm no primatologist, but I have heard that Homo Erectus was able to wipe out Gigantopithicus, a nine-foot tall asian ape similar to Orangutans, through hunting. Modern humans were also able to hunt and kill Orangutans, an ape capable of killing crocodiles with it's bare hands.