Thanks for the cogent reply! It's as if the California legislature wants New Hampshire to get all that revenue.

I don't disagree, and I'm sure that's why he picked it. I just think that someone who thought that way wouldn't have written the letter that way. It's not the sentiment that's hard to believe, it's the calculated way that it's laid out on the page.

I thought that California already had stringent regulations over condoms in porn performance. I remember hearing something about that when I was a teenager (I think I caught an episode of Howard Stern's TV show). I also seem to recall some news story from a few years back about a performer testing HIV-positive and…

PHOTO is the personification of a fake letter, I'd wager. It reads like a really shitty attempt at baiting Dan into saying the wrong thing.

There's this station that used to be available at the house where I work called Gusto. I think it's just a Canadian thing, but that probably means that they've sold all of the shows to American networks for 4 AM programming. Anyway, Gusto was pretty much what I wanted the Food Network to be. Very few reality shows,…

Brit Marling at least had the good sense to involve a giant magnet in her answer, which was more in the spirit of the thing than the other responses.

Time to start shotgunning those cans!

This is honestly a new way of thinking about hope to me. I'm realizing that I've been associating it with the desire for relief instead of healthy optimism. Maybe hope is more like the fire's glow than its initial spark. Thank you, truly.

That's an interesting idea, not trite at all. So the best goals for a happy life would be processes that have no completion state, where you can keep anticipating the next part because there is never a final part? The arts would seem to qualify. You never "finish" being an artist unless you give up.

By the logic of my increasingly-strained metaphor, I think that would mean that you essentially have a happiness platinum card and can keep borrowing indefinitely. For me, continuing to hope in the face of reality when things keep going wrong causes my hopes to become outlandish and abstract and, therefore, hard to…

I wonder if that's an option for phone sex.

Motive alone is a pretty bad way of figuring out the truth of something. There are innocent and non-innocent reasons for doing lots of things. The main thing this lawsuit tells us is that this Dr. Luke fucker clearly doesn't want to put this behind him anytime soon. I wonder how rich his lawyers are getting.

I heard about it coming out of first period. I was 17, so this would have been right at the beginning of grade 12 for me. Everybody was walking between classes as usual and I heard some buzz about a plane crashing, so I asked someone about it and got something to the effect of "I think a plane hit a building in…

I should clarify that I'm talking about drone delivery in general, not this burrito thing that seems unlikely to really happen. If drones start routinely transporting iPhones and similarly-expensive consumer technology, there'll be decent incentive for thieves.

I'm genuinely curious about their anti-theft plans. I mean, depending on one's height relative to the drone, one could potentially take one of them down with a lightweight throwing towel. There are all sorts of common, unrestricted items that could easily become anti-drone ordinance. The fact that it's a robot …

As I said, it's been ages, but I do recall that he mentions his usual diet in the context of his partner (as she shares it) and his preparations for the whole thing. I also remember that the movie isn't really what people always say it is, which leads me to believe that most people probably joined you in refraining…

Thanks!

DISH. I've always wondered what his take on that debacle would sound like.

Sovereign citizens are the best. If they didn't exist, someone would have made them up for a book. It's an understanding of law roughly on par with that of a witch trial.

Set saaaaail, government!