It’s even garbage as libertarian philosophy, because part of that doctrine is that one doesn’t impose their choices on others. But that’s exactly what not vaccinating, and thus destroying herd immunity, does. Rand is (as usual) very, very confused.

10/10 stuck the landing.

I can’t believe there’s a missing word in the final sentence — talk about a failure to stick the landing — and it could stand to be a good deal shorter, but if Drew was still doing the poop stories I probably would.

But yeah...I’d so successfully put the ordeal out of my mind that it didn’t even occur to me back when…

This story is both graphic and Magary-esque. Those of you who know what I’m talking about have been warned.

I was on a jury for a case involving the sexual assault of an infant. The — I don’t recall her title, but something like Chief of Child Sexual Assault Investigation or some other “no way in hell could I ever do that job” title for Mass General — sat on the stand and cried, largely uncontrollably, for a good twenty…

For all the stick Johansson gets regarding her acting w/r/t Widow, she absolutely nails two things in Winter Solider: 1) hyper-competency in spycraft and deceit, both necessary counterbalances to Cap’s moral center that she repeatedly deploys in just the right tone and expression, but also (and perhaps more…

It’s not so much what he says — it’s probably true that any savvy tape nerd who does their homework will see the same things he does — it’s that he says them. And not just that he says them, but he manages to get them out of his brain, through his mouth in a coherent(-enough) way, and onto the airwaves in the very smal…

Remember what happened to Serena Williams. Serena Williams, FFS! If they won’t listen to her in the same situation, you can sadly be damned sure they’re not gonna even acknowledge someone else.

Crickets are super easy and definitely the gateway bug. Walking around Thailand snacking on bags of fried crickets (loaded up with salt and chiles) is something anyone who likes crunchy/salty/spicy things could handle. Ants are pretty easy as well. Ant egg curry is delicious.

But the “grind it up first” sentiment…

Drew Brees is FUN. Even when he plays poorly, he makes sure to commit at least two wildly entertaining turnovers in the effort. That’s how much he cares about YOU, the viewer at home.

As a Minnesotan who watched, and then “rooted” “for” this exact sort of thing, you should be deeply ashamed at the awfulness of this…

Martha is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Daniel Larison.

Jamaican a new sled already.

If it’s who I’d guess you’re thinking about, she was paired off pretty much 100% of the time she was on the show, and a lot of it to another actor working for Joss. But perhaps I guess wrong.

Well, the first thing 12 did, in a post-regeneration panic, was ask Clara if she knew how to fly the TARDIS. While he didn’t quite crash it, it certainly wasn’t a controlled descent.

The first thing that 11 did, post-regeneration, was crash the TARDIS.

Given that context, I think it’s pretty safe to say that even if it w…

I really don’t see it with Clara, and as I said before I don’t think Amy’s interest in 11 ever moved beyond a one-off romp. She never showed the slightest interest in actually abandoning Rory, and we know what that interest would look like because of Rose/Mickey. Clara’s relationship with 12 grew destructive, but for…

Perfectly fair.

I’d love another season with Bill as well, because I think she’s a terrific character and really well-played, but I think that even if Mackie had wanted to carry on, it’s in the best interests of the show to not have her as the companion to the first female Doctor. I’m far less bothered by the…

And FWIW, having now slept on it I think that Moffat was probably trying to sketch a picture of a sexist era rather than the First Doctor himself being specifically sexist, given that he passed some of the relevant lines to the Captain as well. While that’s accurate enough — the First Doctor’s better female companions…