Trump is a dumbed-down version of Reagan, who was a dumbed-down version of a regular president.

A while back I made a batch of Wow-Wow Sauce, a condiment invented by legendary epicurean William Kitchiner in the early 1800s. Inasmuch as the main ingredients are pickled vegetables, ketchup (Kitchiner recommends a mushroom ketchup), and mustard, I probably shouldn't have been surprised that it tasted almost…

If the short "Moon Mater" is to be believed, there is a car NASA which has indeed sent cars to the Moon. The astronauts are cars that ride in a sapient space shuttle. The cars wear helmets in space. The space shuttle does not.

Hey, the dog planes make perfect sense. They have steering yokes shaped like squeaky bone toys that the dogs work with their mouths. Also the dogs wear little dog parachutes for when they inevitably crash.

I had an uncle named Larry. That was the name on his birth certificate. I was always fascinated by the idea that someone looked at a newborn and said, "Yup, that's a Larry. Larry the baby."

I'd read and loved the original story, and at the opening shot of the porch I started crying because I knew what it signified and that it would also be the ending shot. I was unstuck in time through the whole damn movie.

If that was true, non-breast-fed babies would die, or at the very least be *extremely* sickly. That's observably untrue.

What? No. Babies have functioning immune systems. Otherwise we'd have to keep them sealed up like the Bubble Boy.

During the W. Bush administration I'd periodically have dreams where I met him and he was perfectly nice in person, and in the dream I'd feel bad about shit-talking him all the time. (I never felt bad about it once I woke up.)

Among other howlers, "Killing Lincoln" describes Lincoln holding meetings in the Oval Office, a room that wasn't built until 1909. (Lincoln used one of the second-floor offices in the East Wing, which was finished before the West Wing.)

Home Alone 2, Ghosts Can't Do It, and Horrorween. That's it.

Never have I seen so many people so concerned over the welfare of a Starbucks.

I've considered going for those sweet anti-feminist lady gigs, but I'd have to bleach my hair.

Yeah, "family" in the Godfather movies always signifies tribal Old World values. There's a running theme of America as a corrupting influence, even on an already corrupt institution like the Mafia. We never learn how Michael became a ruthless killer even by Corleone standards, but it seems connected to his time in…

All the songs in Sing Street are sweet as hell.

In addition to the NIMBY thing, Gitmo is such a massive legal screw-up on so many levels that no one has any idea how to handle the remaining prisoners' cases. There's simply no procedure for processing prisoners who have been detained without trial for 15 years, frequently without clear documentation on why they…

He's allowed to. It's just odd that he *wanted* to.

Get your stories straight. He's a Muslim AND and a radical black Christian AND proudly gay.

Copyright laws don't cover recipes or, as far as I know, food decoration, so it's legal. Just really, really weird.

To anyone who knows even a tiny bit about feminism, the idea that third-wave feminists are radical man-haters compared to previous waves seems baffling; the second wave was the one with lesbian separatist communes and bicycling fish slogans. But MRAs have collectively decided that "second wave" means "feminists from…