A better comparison for ‘Into Darkness’ might be ‘Spectre’, as both have their villain announcing their name in a dramatic way that comes as a reveal metatextually but would have the characters within the story going, “Okay. Not sure why you said it like that.”

Look, I’m not saying it was a good thing that Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban was hired to play an Indian man, but he does at least read as a little closer to the right skin tone than desaturated glass of milk Benedict Cumberbatch.

It also suffered from an incredibly rushed writing schedule: EON finally settled the decades-long legal mess that had kept them from using SPECTRE or the Blofeld character since the Roger Moore era while “Bond 24" was still in pre-production with — at least as rumor had it — a mostly finished script. Instead of…

You tip 1 roll of TP per order. Tip with 2-ply if it is a large order or contactless delivery.

I agree. I think it’s always dumb, but the dumbness is slightly less now. The chances of a run killing someone in a direct way due to higher traffic seems much higher than the chance the somehow they divert resources that could have helped a coronavirus patient and so someone else dies that way.

I think the idea that it’s somehow worse to do this during the coronavirus is quite wrong—yes, a crash will pull resources away from the virus, but a crash during “normal” times could very well kill a family or other innocent roadgoers. Minimizing the risk of that kind of incident seems to at least balance the…

Imagine being in isolation with any of these people. 

When I was a grade school tyke , we had an English assignment to bring in song lyrics and read (or sing) them aloud to the class (“Poetry in Pop Music”). One kid brought in “The Gambler” and ALL of us sang along with him.

This.

Official: 2016 seems halcyon.

Immense talent and from all tales a guy who could also laugh at himself as he enjoyed the MadTV “Jackass” version and poked fun of himself in an episode of Reno 911.

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You’ve been following the strategy of the Coachella Festival promoters, haven’t you?

Me, an intellectual: “How ridiculous. Surely no insurance company would fault a company for closing or cancelling an event right now.”

Stealing a thought others have posted in the past —

This is the best thing you’ve ever written on Jezebel. Please stop writing about celebrities – you’re bad at it. Please stop writing about sex – you’re bad it. Please keep writing about your own life and about disenfranchisement and society – this is really good.

Are you medically qualified?

This is bad advice. It’s not just about avoiding the people, it’s avoiding contaminating and being contaminated by all the surfaces you’ll touch, which will then be touched by a whole bunch of other people after you leave.

If you can get delivery, stay home.

Exactly! I used to be an assistant professor. The most difficult thing to teach was recognition of assumption errors. It’s the basic BS test. Does the answer you calculated so precisely make any sense? Do you really expect to get only 42 board-feet of lumber from a 20-acre stand of trees? Do you really think you can…

Meanwhile in Hong Kong, there’s a blogger posting about this amazing backyard full of cool rusted out 4x4s that he discovered in his January trip to Michigan.