The part of Chuck Jones stuff that appeals to adults will always work — unlike the Dreamworks movies heavy with current pop-culture references winking at adults.

I remember them because I loved and used them!

You’re on to something. I’ll take pure, childlike glee over botox and hormone supplements any day.

Baseball season.

A lot of that seems to mesh with Dan Savage’s “monogomish” concept.

No, Comic Sans is not OK except for children. Frankly, I think I’d rather be hacked.

Don't 90% of Jez articles boil down to that?

Makes you a failed Witcher-watcher.

Why would he be in his grave (spinning or not) if he was alive today?

Forrest Gump clarified this years ago:
Stupid is as stupid posts on a blog then completely backpedals days later.

It would be easier to trust stories from various media if y’all could get the grammar for “Media” right.

True. Can’t say I miss Randy Newman’s grand mal seizure-style singing on it.

That “musical number” you dismiss so quickly (“When Somebody Loved Me”) is one of most emotionally poweful scenes in animation. Ev-er.

I know this costs me some geek cred but I don’t recognize that. Help a brother out?

I think it’s because they have a visual connection to their past (a.k.a. our present) so they feel more real.

Maybe “happy” is an overstatement. His world certainly does seem hellish. I just meant he may not realize it.

Great point. But is it really Hell if you’re happy being there?

There are two separate issues:
1. The hair cutting as a punishment. — Weird but a very grey area as for appropriateness.
2. Making the punishment public. — Wrong and cruel no matter what the choice for #1.

In addition to Anna Merlan mentioned about mental health folks input, the wording is now part of the Associated Press stylebook:

My step aunt and uncle have worked for airlines for 40+ years — she as an attendant, he as a pilot. He was a Navy pilot before that. Neither will fly in a helicopter.