Maybe a good time to buy Malaysian Airlines stock? They are a flag carrier, after all, so they shouldn't be going anywhere. Do airlines have insurance (and would it cover this kind of loss), or are they self-insured?

Theory #5: It was the Ukrainians making it look like the Russians making it look like the Ukrainians making it look like the Russians.

He did psychopathic pretty-boy pretty well.

Finally, an "all rook same" joke, waaay at the bottom. Get it together, people.

Books shouldn't exist for some things.

If that's their reason, I really wonder how much thinking and research they did in making that decision. How much kinetic energy would it actually take to set off explosives? My guess would be that only something very unstable like nitroglycerin could be set off by a bullet. Certainly C-4 wouldn't blow up. So how…

They're typically the mechanical equivalent of a 90 year-old man.

China's modern police and military uniforms are really quite sharp. How they wear it, though, is another matter entirely.

Isn't there something called outbreeding depression? Where if you breed two individuals that are too dissimilar, it scrambles up sets of adaptive traits that evolved together and eventually overcomes the benefits of hybrid vigor?

It's not opera. It's Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye," which is not even cheddar, but ripe, stinky, moldy Roquefort cheese.

The anthem. Who says it has to be modern, or that the anthem's not modern?

In the video the reporter asks (literally), "What trauma did he suffer to cause him to comb his hair into a block?" and then quotes him explaining that his hair was thinning at the top some years ago, so he decided to comb the sides up to make it look fuller.

It bears noting that the man who set himself on fire was a pacifist protesting the change to Japan's pacifist defense policy set to happen Tuesday. That's a lot of conviction there.

You bring up a good point. Isn't talking about favorite movies, hobbies, and that kind of non-committal, riskless stuff way more impersonal?

This should be a Community card.

Chinese and Japanese words just don't belong on bodies. We don't do that with them. Draw a traditional dragon or something if you want to look sophisticated; use a piece of paper if you want to write something down.

You're absolutely right, but there are way more Chinese and Japanese speakers living in the West than there are native English speakers living in Asia, and nobody asks them either. They would rather entrust the job to a tattoo artist who hasn't studied ... much of anything, probably.

"My brother's keeper" comes from the Bible. The meaning here is cryptic, but not silly at all.

The more you try to link things up with politics, the more you prove my point. You know they say you shouldn't wrestle with pigs, so congratulations dragging me into the muck with you.

Your saying it so makes it so, huh?