His floating of the $2500 stipend for housing in DC, while arguably hypocritical coming from Chaffetz specifically, considering his stances on other things, is a pretty eminently reasonable idea. Putting it in "snark quotes" doesn't constitute a reasoned counterpoint.

Stormare's abbreviated version of Nyqvist's monologue from the first film, about John Wick, was also awesome.

"How do you know what Vigo likes or doesn't like? I'll tell you what - he's going to understand."

"English, Vigo?"

Shkreli is scum of the earth, but "holding a rare Wu-Tang Clan album hostage"? It was their stupid choice to print one of that album, and make it so only a rich asshole could buy it in the first place.

His soft-spoken delivery during that entire scene where he explains who John Wick is, was amazing. And the way he genuinely terrifies his son, by essentially acting like he's already dead.

"I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil. With a fucking. Pencil."

I felt bad for Peyton Reed, because when Ant-Man got reviewed, people constantly attributed all of the good parts of that movie to the "obvious influence of Edgar Wright" on the project, and all of the bad parts to Reed. Not to mention the unfair narrative around him that while Wright was a principled auteur who…

Christ, I think calling MITB "abysmal" is more than slightly over-exaggerating.

They are going back to do reshoots of the scenes with people in them. Everything else is fine.

Listen man, I can't stand Scarborough. He's been a pathetic toadie for years, and his new-found sanctimony about the outrages of the Trump Administration have threaded an impossible needle where I both frequently agree with what he is saying, yet simultaneously wish he would shut the fuck up. He constantly…

Couldn't agree more. And made even worse that the body of the article more or less went on to acknowledge that there's no outrage here.

I can half-remember the poll ScratStitch is referring to, and I believe it was more like 9 in 10 didn't care, not 55 or 60 percent.

The legal principle of free speech has never really been "unlimited", but yes - I agree. And the ruling itself explains why. While protecting free speech can sometimes mean protecting the right of assholes to say shitty, offensive things aloud, free speech protections have historically, disproportionately protected…

Sex offenders are often already denied access to computers or the internet on a case-by-case basis, as conditions of parole. The article mentions this ruling does nothing to change that.

Why would there be a gasp when the DA announced he intended to re-try the case? As soon as I saw the headlines about the mistrial, that was exactly what I expected. A mistrial isn't an acquittal - it just means there was no point in this particular jury deliberating any more.

I think the point of that "joke", was that Trump is so deep in Putin's pocket, that kids were mistakenly assuming he was Russian.

This bit of the article reached out and slapped me in the face too.

They'll undo some of the wackiest shit in the House bill (but only so much, since it can't cost more than the House bill due to reconciliation rules), and it'll still be a bad bill.

I think I'm probably one of the only people in my town who liked Cloud Atlas.