The shift on this issue over only a few decades is fucking staggering. Previously, the only people who thought it was wrong to “stall life” were the Catholics, and they had centuries upon centuries of weird ass theological debates and councils that led them to that conclusion. The Protestants didn’t used to care about…

Beyond that, there is the further fact that there are quite a lot of older children born in the US waiting to be adopted, but the pro-life crowd hasn’t really stepped up on addressing that issue. I, obviously, don’t know your friends, but I’ve met people like that who would take in older rescue dogs, specifically…

That’s close, but that’s really only the GOP definition of the genus which subdivides into two species: “Mother” (walking incubator) and “slut” (walking incubator). The sole difference for them, in every case, is whether said incubator welcomes the unborn child as a miracle directly bestowed upon them by God or not.

What’s surprising... wait, that’s not really the word I’m looking for... what’s entirely predictable but utterly despicable is that their concern literally stops at the moment of birth. Before we even get to discussing the state’s failure in providing education and healthcare to children, Mississippi ranks 49th in…

If you want beef, then bring the ruckus

Bill Murray heisting a Wu-Tang album from Shkreli... that would be kinda interesting.

The real lesson for assholes like him, unless Congress decides to do something, is simply not to be quite as much of an asshole in public and to avoid any other charges they could prosecute just to create the public impression of a crackdown.

That’s the way it should be, but the show keeps straying from that narrative just to push the line that they aren’t that different. I mean, just take this episode. Negan ordered Simon to kill just one of the trash people, not for no reason but, in his mind, to restore order (and I’m willing to bet that Negan isn’t…

That’s been bugging me for awhile just because they went all in on the same angle with the Governor. Granted, it’s been a few years since I’ve read the comic books, and I do recall comic Rick cycling between going a bit too far and then pulling back. As I recall, though, the Governor and Negan were always portrayed as…

Verily, this one’s brevity cuts to the heart of the matter. In some, dissemblance may be used to serve a nobler purpose, but in others, it serves no other purpose but ostentation. And lo, in such cases, it surely reeks like the hindquarters of the beasts of the field.

“Of course, I never would have voted for him if I knew he was a racist. I would never vote for a racist. I mean, I’m like the least racist... OH SHIT!”

Either they’re fine with it, they don’t care, or they’re deeply in denial about it. Since Trump won the white vote, getting a majority of whites to accept he’s a racist would require getting some of them to cop to the fact that they voted for a racist. If there were any white people who voted for Trump who would…

The most charitable interpretation is that her subconscious is crying out for help. It is well documented that captives will try to signal for help subtly in video testimony, and the only time someone’s eyebrow would twitch up like that is to indicate how clearly absurd what they are saying is.

I agree. I think it would be interesting to see a lot more development of the idea of how people would adapt to treating a video game as being “real”, figuring out how to balance (or how to fail to balance) who they feel they are in the real world versus how they play the game, and so on.

If they get this going, it is will almost certainly be in English. Given the comments in the article, where the executive producer claims she wants to make sure at least some of the characters are based in Tokyo, the worst case scenario (for you), is that they have some scenes set in the real world in Japanese with…

That’s actually something I would be interested in seeing, something that takes the ideas from the original in a new direction. It would even allow you to throw in lots of easter eggs for original fans while starting with a new story for anyone who hasn’t seen the original. Moreover, people who find the new one first…

I never watched the Death Note one just because I’ve usually found the changes usually make things worse, not better, but that does really sound like an improvement.

I’m not ever planning on having kids, but if I did, that would be my nightmare, too. I think the difference is between teaching kids certain moral and ethical “defaults” and teaching them specific rules. I had pretty liberal parents that let me get away with a lot, but as soon as they said I wasn’t allowed to do…

“Secretary Sanders, what do the president’s views look like on this issue?”

I know this is a joke, but I’ve seriously had people tell me that it’s “ridiculous” that humans could affect the climate because only God could do that. One person I tried to convince pretty much told me, “It doesn’t matter what we do, and it doesn’t matter if things are getting hotter or colder. The world will be…