Agree for “Crash,” but “Life is Beautiful” doesn’t belong on the list of the undeserving. 

Sometimes it’s not the Academy’s fault. The distributor on “Your Name,” for instance, had it get a tiny release at the end of 2016, making it eligible for that year’s Oscars (and not those for 2017). The problem was, it didn’t receive a considerably wider release until after nominations were already due. And the…

“they cited the statistic that just two to eight percent of reported rape accusations are false”

I didn’t know its official name until today, but I grew up eating a version of Schinkenfleckern that became my favorite baked “macaroni & cheese.”

Actually, increasing the driving age to 21 would be safer overall. 17 isn’t as late in the brain development process as one might think.

I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.

We learn something new every day.

Yes, though that can easily translate to, “If you have low income, you shouldn’t own a car.”

Oh, okay.  I did not realize there was an Ontario, California.

Not everyone has full coverage. Not sure of the laws in Canada, but in most US states the mandatory insurance required (Collision Insurance) covers only the damage you do to others’ cars and property should you have caused an accident.

No, they have. They have been withdrawing sums from the treasury that vastly outstrip their annual allocated budget for years.

If you read the Nation article I linked above, you’ll see that’s not how the $21 trillion is calculated. And yes, the accounting errors go back multiple decades, and the “plugs” of funding, which are the primary source of the errors, can far outstrip the annual DoD budget. And that’s been going on for decades.

I don’t think the intent was for it to be the permanent source of funding. At the moment, the department of defense has an estimated $21 trillion that it can’t account for. Even if some percentage of that turns out to be legitimate usage, they’ve been doing such a crap job of accounting that I wouldn’t be surprised if…

Yes, that’s actually correct. The Pentagon has been basically cooking their books for decades, and they’ve been holding unspent money that by law has to be given back to the treasury if it’s unspent after the year it was allocated for.

If it’s a mole on the inside, do they still need to get it checked out by a dermatologist? Or should they see a different specialist?

I appreciate the joke, but even when adjusted for inflation, Die Hard’s box office is considerably less than either Home Alone or Grinch: 298.9 million in 2018 USD.

I think the problem with the “Muslims celebrating 9/11” narrative is that it takes a real incident and leads bigots to assume it was commonplace, or that it was occurring in the US itself. 

If you like split keyboards, Microsoft’s Surface Ergonomic is a great deal more comfortable than the sculpt, IMO.

If you like split keyboards, Microsoft’s Surface Ergonomic is a great deal more comfortable than the sculpt, IMO.

I’ve never understood why so many people poo-poo number pads. A small amount of desk real estate in exchange for a much better number entry interface?  Yes please. 

I’ve never understood why so many people poo-poo number pads. A small amount of desk real estate in exchange for a mu…

Early in the MCU, Marvel licensed toys that included fake spoilers. For instance, the Avengers movie set of Heroclix figurines included a set of Skrulls, and they were the only villain toys that hadn’t been in a prior film.