While there are valid reasons to be concerned about how often painkillers are prescribed, there's another side to this too for some. I have a friend who went through repeated flareups of c.difficile that put her in the hospital over and over again, and they kept discharging her without actually fixing her. It was only…

Teddy Ruxpin was my favourite thing when I was a kid. I loved the cartoon too.

Tolkien obviously thought it was important to the lore, and there sure as hell should be an explanation for why Gandalf keeps disappearing for large parts of the book.

You can be ignorantly pedantic all day, but you know damn fucking well that the term "anti-Semitic" refers to hatred of the Jewish, not the entire "semitic" ethnic group. That is the exclusive definition of that term. Have a fucking problem with that? Go back to the 19th century when the term was created.

At least Reto Berra is good for something. Maybe he picked the wrong position to play.

I'm a fan of both McDonagh brothers, of which Gleeson has figured prominently in terms of "major" releases. Have you seen the short film Six Shooter by the other brother, Martin? Stars Gleeson too. It is on YouTube and won, I think, an Oscar for best short film years ago (or at least nominated). It is only half an…

Yep, The Guard is fantastic. Calvary is by the same writer/director, though it's a fair bit darker.

Brendan Gleeson in Calvary was a better performance than any of the listed best actor possibilities. Too bad no one saw it.

People do the parking chair shit in parts of Pittsburgh too, and it's the trashiest thing.

Why would you wish that on his career? This is going to be poison for these two.

Sorry if there's some irony that's going over my head, but there was a ton of press about how there isn't going to be any penis in this movie.

You probably don't even belong on Deadspin if you primarily associate the name with the singer and not the legendary and historically important boxer.

Which is amazing since Pittsburgh has two open door shelters at a minimum, so that "there's a waiting list" or "they turned us down" or whatever can not be an excuse, like some try to use in areas. Of course, western PA is a larger area than just Pittsburgh, but you're an especially extra huge sociopath if you can't…

While all black women have to deal with it, poor white women often do too. Classism is a thing. Being poor isn't a lot of factors, it is one factor.

I know Christopher and Simon have reconciled, but I'm interested in whether Christopher actually leaves him with control of such things in his will, considering he at one point basically disowned Simon over that kind of thing (being positive over the Jackson films etc).

Yeah, I get the impression that he saw someone make fun of that aspect or call him a gay slur or something, and it sent him over the edge. Otherwise he would have flipped out publicly about it much sooner. He flipped out when the movie's been out in theatres for pushing two months? Sure.

I don't get it either. If you don't get it right from the beginning, you can never figure out where you went wrong and try to correct it? Nonsensical.

Yeah, the same notifications come up over and over again, they never clear.

Yeah, if American-based sports coverage lacks anything, it's adequate football coverage.

Putting Florida in the story/headline was redundant information. It was obvious.