I fail to see how a cop lacking specific lifeguard training and using that as a basis for refusing to even try to save someone is any different than a cop not having, say, a wheelable ballistic shield and a full-auto carbine with a laser attachment and using that as an excuse to wait for the Fed cavalry to arrive,…

Yeah, it might have potentially been dangerous, and if the past fortnight has shown us anything, it’s that American law enforcement’s preferred method of responding to any degree of danger is wait around outside its door for 60 or 70 minutes.  

It’s an awesome and timeless song, she’s a pantheon musician and totally deserves it. I just can’t wait for these Zoomers to discover shoegaze, for the first time since the 90s I’m going be in the cultural vanguard again.

Incredible negligence, though shockingly common; I watch a lot of dashcam comps on YT and have seen soooooo many instances of drivers plowing straight into a stationary disabled vehicle (almost always with their hazards on) that it’s amazing. I just saw one the other day that featured no fewer than four separate…

I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever paid even $10 for a single burger once; at some place in Montana, so, based on my experience, I’m going to say “bison”.

Adding just some folks from another line: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, James MacAvoy, Halle Berry, Ryan Reynolds, Rose Byrne, Kevin Bacon, Elliot Page, Oscar Isaac, blah blah blah forever.  

It’s cool, I live in a small city in a remote area of the Midwest and the local McDonald’s are now up to $17/hr to start, which is probably more than those businesses were paying to many of their employees anyway; one local aircraft manufacturer has 200 open job listed, some starting at $30/hr, and is also offering…

No, they aren’t, they’re just the Republicans’ loyal lapdogs.

I like to joke that he probably has custom Fatheads of Verwoerd and Malan on his bedroom walls at home, but as that scenario has been becoming more likely at something like an exponential rate, the humor is correspondingly diminished.

I honestly cannot believe that anyone would continue to support her after she was captured on a recording literally taunting her husband that societal prejudice meant she was free to fabricate allegations against him and impervious to any claim he could make. One of the infelicities of tossing threats around is that…

No one said jacks and jack stands from Harbor Freight?

I mean, seriously, what is the point of differentiating between people at all based on who they live with? Is a modestly successful person who manages to live alone somehow less of a person than someone living with roommates? Because that’s exactly the situation between me and my brother, who lives across the river: I…

I didn’t mean it to defeat your argument, if anything I thought it might have helped a little, but since you decided to respond in such an absolutely bizarre and hostile tone, please feel free to disregard it entirely, as that’s definitely what I’ll be doing with your posts. Have a nice day, and good luck with your…

This makes zero sense. Why would civilians be worse? They draw from the same population as police. 

I do appreciate Francis Bacon’s inclusion, but any such list that doesn’t include the story of Astyages and Harpagus is a bit lacking, considering that meal kind of led directly to the rise of the Persian Empire, supposedly.  

Absolutely correct. The only thing they’re going to learn from this is how to mask and present their poor response by better controlling the public.

That’s probably because they aren’t outgunned, buddy, and haven’t been since at least the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in 1997.  

That classroom also must be the only one in America without fucking windows, and the local cops are the only one who don’t have a simple battering ram.  The pigs should’ve been blowing through the walls like the Kool-Aid man, but no, even with all of their military surplus gear, they were completely nullified by a…

Ah, bummer. As to the longer seasons leading to a few clunkers each year, honestly, I was just sooooo into the world building, the atmosphere and the portrayal of the characters’ relationships in those series that I loved pretty much every DS9 episode (well, let’s say post-S1), even the bottle episodes focusing on the…

Really? That’s awesome, I fucking hate how so many American series have adopted the British-style 6-8 episode “seasons”. It’s fine for small stories but for epics it just hamstrings everything. It’s hilarious to compare something like Deep Space Nine, which could pump out 26 1-hour episodes every year and still…