You seem to be arguing something different from your starting point. People thinking that he did it isn't logically inconsistent with allowing for doubt. I can allow for the possibility that something isn't as I think it is while still thinking about it the way that I do for the time being. The original point to…

That's not the same as "impossible that he didn't", though. People are saying that they definitely think that he did, but I'm not seeing posts saying that there's no chance that he didn't. Again, maybe we're seeing different posts.

I wish they'd found some way to obscure her hands as well as her feet in that picture just to hit the joke a bit harder.

It's funny to think, from a mid-90s viewpoint, that Image, of all places, would become possibly the most respected publisher in American comics. Image! The company with the pouches and eight covers per issue! I guess The Maxx was ahead of its time in another way.

This is just how Lobsters writes. It's been consistent for years upon years. It's just style. I have an older friend who wrote everything online in all caps for a while because it was easier for her to see. She didn't get why everyone was asking her to stop yelling.

Bit of a straw man there, I think. Personally, I can't recall seeing any posts where someone said that it was impossible that he didn't do it. That hasn't been the position that his detractors have been taking. Perhaps you've seen differently; I've mostly been taking stock of what gets said on this site.

All our dignity will be lost like tears in rain.

It's odd how people sometimes act like there's no middle state of evidence between perfect video and audio recordings of a crime and pure hearsay. Kesha's team has put plenty of evidence forward. Enough to win their case? Maybe not; the burden of proof for sexual assault and rape is pretty high. Enough to convince…

I think that the reason you won't hear such an admission is that it could be used against the person who said it in court. It's a litigious society and that's led to image handlers and such for practically every public figure. They minimize, deny, and shift blame as a defensive measure. Admitting culpability in…

God, it's such a temptation sometimes. I genuinely believe that whatever that guy said fully merited that smack from you. It's obviously a terrible policy for living, of course, but sometimes you have to shock someone enough somehow to let them know that they're sailing over the rails of acceptable conduct into the…

Both of 'em burned down shortly before they were to close for good. It was an astonishing coincidence. Uncanny.

This is a loooooong shot, but: are you talking about the Brunswick and/or the Embassy in London ON?

Better audiences, too. You just have to play to your crowd and people will get right into a show at a good dive.

We just got one in London. Still haven't been in, probably won't unless I can get a gig there.

I remember a friend of mine telling me about this guy she worked with at a cafe of some sort one summer. They were very friendly with each other, which may have been what emboldened this guy to question her choice of lunch one day on the grounds that it might be too many calories. He seemed completely serious, too,…

Gender definitely came into high school music culture back then, and this isn't too far off from my experiences with it. The oppositional element definitely seemed to be there in a few different ways (loud rock vs. slick pop, "real music" vs. marketing, that kind of silliness), though most of the people in my high…

I think the interesting part of the question is the whole notion of the request show. I remember watching a Canadian version back around this time and, while more sedate, there was a somewhat similar dynamic. My question is, basically, why teenagers were so willing to fight over what videos a network played. They…

Canadian.

Well, overstepping is a matter of a mismatch between your stake and your involvement, if that makes sense. The important thing here, I think, is to remember that this is you and you specifically doing this. Your stake is clear and important: you are genuinely debating whether or not you should drop him over this. …

I still think that "Bobcaygeon" is an underrated entry into the canon of great narrative songs. That lyric couldn't be any longer or shorter. It's a nearly-perfect narrative.