But I just don't understand this. The market cap of firearms manufacturers is dwarfed by, for example, insurance, or health companies. If there was a lobbying arm that channeled the money from those companies that pay for the real costs of gun violence, the NRA would lose every time.

So you're saying there's no Deal?

Kaleb Horton is an internet treasure. His writing on Bitter Empire is fantastic, particularly his summary of True Detective Season Two.

No Country For Old Dumb And Full Of Cum Men

Seconded. And you might take a moment of introspection beforehand to think about what your response would be to her confirming that she is and will always be poly and not exclusive with you. Or that she is in a long-term open relationship currently, and you're in orbit around that. Best of luck.

In the book, he explicitly represents all things medieval: the church, rigid social order, humility, chastity, focus on the metaphysical. This is in contrast to Italy/the Renaissance's humanistic embrace of physicality, beauty, carnality, the human form. Lucy ultimately rejects the medieval viewpoint, so she rejects…

She's already been on Ben.

I like Frontline a lot, and PBS & NPR are excellent sources of news. I believe that, and also believe that Vice is doing something nobody else is doing. It's not deep but it's visceral and unusual, and takes global crises seriously as events.

This is true, but I don't think it's exclusive to western countries. International diplomacy is not a moral theater.

A brief web search on this reveals that the statistics on drug-use show that there's only a small percentage difference between ethnic groups, and that different studies varied whether the rate was higher among whites and blacks. A 1-1.5% higher drug use rate among African Americans, even if it was accurate, does not…

Vice's gonzo-lite style apparently pisses people off far more than just not reporting about most of the world at all.

Maybe, as a journalist, she's annoyed when the story she's trying to report on gets overshadowed by the hype around the story she's trying to report on.

Old guys in rock bands about to start your publicity photo shoot: your sunglasses are fooling nobody.

Bee Thousand. It was 40 minutes of everything great about Guided By Voices.

Drowing By Numbers and The Draughtman's Contract are nearly perfect.

Chad is the bad guy, yeah, but Howard is the worse person because his sense of himself as fundamentally moral makes him act selfishly. Howard needs to be honest with their victim Christine. He needs her to believe that he actually cares about her, while cruelly making her aware of how she was used. He needs her to…

I don't use snapchat, but doesn't the sender get notified if somebody screenshots your conversation or photo?

Exactly. There's a clear pattern here.

I think Pitbull gives ugly, talentless people hope. "Hey, that guy balls, so can I!"

You know how everyone complains about how the original Star Wars trilogy doesn't have an extra 15 minutes at the end of Luke back in Tattoine hunting down small-time Empire collaborators that dicked his uncle over on power converter prices? It's so incomplete without that scene.