Heh. That's 20 in an nutshell, isn't it? Good thinking is in pretty short supply. I'm not sure I made a single correct decision that entire year.

Snark aside, it doesn't seem to be so easy as saying that a guy is pro-rape because of some obvious commonality. Even something that seemed like common sense, like the idea that abused people become abusers, became very unclear when subjected to a study. I'd guess that it's an uncountable number of small things that…

There is little in life that feels quite as magical as the realization that it's the right time to ask someone out. When it all lines up and it's clear that there's a spark, it's just indescribable. It's that moment of clarity, where you realize that you're both paying 100% attention to each other, both waiting to…

Damn, and I liked Busta Rhymes. I'll bet that extended list would ruin most of the other people I liked, too. Sorry to hear about them being such assholes to you. God, the music industry sucks.

Frusciante has said that he started out in music as a huge womanizer, so he might have still been in that stage at that time. It's definitely possible.

It's Sisyphean, though. I've tried it and I've mainly learned that you get, at best, one person making intellectually-honest arguments in response amid a sea of babbling jerkoffs. (My favourites are the nerd guys who show up to bloviate about science and studies and sourcing without actually providing any of those…

I'm generally OK with their music, but I agree with the rest. I'd like to see them say something about this and then actually do something about it. I don't see that happening, but it'd be the decent thing to do.

Yeah, he's clearly a compact guy. Lean and muscular, like corned beef.

I think she was just being legally smart. It's a bit of a long shot, but specific names could potentially lead to a defamation suit or something of that ilk. She might had figured that two out of four possible people was specific enough without going over that line.

Sounds like it didn't become an issue, which is good. For all I know, she might have been personally OK with that happening. I just think that it's a situation worth avoiding in the first place.

He beat the charges in his first trial, which had to do with several accusations about events from 2002-2003. He has another one coming up, which has to do with an accusation from a CBC staffer.

It's a key rule of mine. Never ask somebody out in a circumstance where either of you are basically obligated to be around the other. No one wants to go into work and fend off passes all day. If it's going to happen at all, it has to happen outside of work and with the understanding that it's going to stay that…

Wedding Club. People could pay into it and pool the cash to have a few fake weddings a year. You could try out all sort of different kinds of wedding, all sorts of daring clothing that no one would wear to a real wedding, absurd vows played for laughs. The money's practically in your pocket!

Ha. OK, I'll lay this out as concisely as I can. It may be the defining issue of my life that I don't even feel like I fit in with myself. See, for almost as long as I can remember, I've had what are sometimes termed as unwanted thoughts. I'm not sure why; I think that it may be an anxiety disorder, while my…

Ha! Shoulda stuck with the Blue Man Group kit, Scott.

Honestly, I'm fine with that for the first movie. In his first movie, he really shouldn't be at full strength. The character needs somewhere to go.

It's the kind of relationship that's often missing from stories like this. Maybe it's just me, but it's sort of offputting when everybody's in some sort of heavily differential power relationship and it's rare for people to just be equals. Can't Dr. Strange be one of many sorcerers learning at the feet of the…

Jesus, our planet attracts the suckiest cryptids.

There are a whole lot of story problems that get solved by powering Strange down a bit. I mean, really, he shouldn't be more powerful than the Ancient One. I said it in another comment a while ago, but it'd work well to have him be regarded as a peer among other people with whom he trains, the Ancient One overseeing…

Somebody did that in my town a good few years back to great public confusion during, I believe, a hockey game. I remember having to explain to a family member that "monkey" could be a racial slur (as it's not at all a common slur around here; I've never heard it said in person, I don't think) in order to explain why…