“I think we’re seeing the bad side of Web 2.0's laissez-faire ‘let the users create the content’ attitude.

Judging by several comments here “I am not/have never been on Facebook” is the new “I don’t own a/don’t watch TV.”

This is my absolute favorite Cohen bros pic. 

critically and financially it’s a runaway success

I stopped collecting/reading MAD in the late 80s, I loved it so much that I’m afraid to go back for fear of ruining my memories.

The other three all had some level of tongue-in-cheek awareness as well.

Don’t forget the brief shift into faux-spiritualism.

Chris didn’t take the gold. The Bears swept all three golds.

You know what’s really good? Mock apple pie. It’s just Ritz crackers and cinnamon!

There’s two problems I see with that:

1) Setbacks and what if you never significantly improve?

2) The residue from the shitty things that happen when you’re an asshole. No one gets to dictate how badly or how long someone they do something along these lines to should suffer for.

Fundamentally, I don’t think it matters…

Not that I disagree, but it’s worse with pickles. If a pickle has been on a burger/ whatever, it makes the whole thing taste like pickle. You can’t just pick it off... it’s there, forever, haunting the burger.

a good burger SHOULD bleed.

I wouldn’t mind finding a small scorpion or two in my sammie.

I just assume everyone was too polite to tell Inarritu that Ratatouille exists.

My dad loved Velveeta. His mom used to send it to him* in the army (he was in recon, driving a scout car in France). He was the cook for his unit (“Nobody else could cook worth a damn, so I did it.”). He’d go on about how everybody got happy when the Velveeta arrived. They had better rations than the guys on foot, but…

Yup, pretty much “Bad News/slight silver lining to bad news maybe if you squint at it from afar”

I wish my computer could have blocked the entire article.

Well, It’s also literally called “A Christmas Story”, so that has a little to do with it.

They’re not buying it, tbey’re renting it from the maker for something like $10 an hour (so, cheaper than a human guard).