All the tourists love a gimmicky lift bridge in my town, but the correct answer is the Bong, not just because of the wonderful name, but because the conditions are so favorable for scofflaws that my commute is almost always <8 mins. Surprisingly lightly trafficked, loooong on-ramps, good road surface, shoulders wide…

The Huskers’ offense is pretty medieval...

They’ve been hostile to their own customers for years, decades even, trying to shove opened games down people’s throats while claiming that they were still “new”, paying pennies on the dollar for used games to unsophisticated customers who weren’t aware of alternatives and then turning around and marking them $5 less…

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.  

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 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…

FWIW, I just happened to buy a sealed copy on eBay last night for $32.86 shipped. They’ve got some 15% off sale promotion going, and the listing said the seller had more copies at that same price...