Honestly, it was such a obvious joke given all the Carly Simon shoutouts, but I still laughed my ass off when it came.

"Why not just say they got scienced off to outer space?"

The Anti-Christ would also send his forces out into the field, except they really can't shoot or kill anyone for any real reason, and they'd probably end up all getting kidnapped for ransom.

"…people with those views aren't likely to be swayed by rational debate anyway, because their views are not rational in the first place."

Ooh, really? Have a name? I'd like to look further into that.

I think they can absolutely argue that person's presence is harming their company, since if OTHER people find out you're willingly employing that kind of douche, they might not want to do business with you.

Yeah, I've never quite gotten this. If I, in my free time, run a "The holocaust didn't happen and Jews are the greatest evil in the history of humanity" website entirely in the privacy of my own home, and my employer finds out I do so, they are well within their rights to decide that they do not want to associate…

As someone who grew up as one of like, maybe 10 black kids in an otherwise lily-white town, I feel you.

Like watching Sonic the Hedgehog with invincibility, just bouncing off everything before running to freedom.

My mother is a lot of things, but she doesn't really keep up with black pop culture that much anymore, what with the being old (and the fact that she's the kind of person who has all the radio stations in her car tuned to NPR).

Seriously. I have the same feelings (I respect the genre, but many of its conventions drive me nuts) and GITS is a classic. God knows what'll be left once Hollywood's done with it.

"Can anyone fill me in in the top ranked teams and who is projected to be the best?"

I have so many complicated feelings about the gigantic edifice of "amateurism" bullshit the NCAA has created, about how football is treated by some schools, about concussions, and so on.

Spader's the most fun really. I still don't remember the female protagonist's name. I've taken to calling her "Agent Beige".

Speaking as a person of a certain amount of melanin, I have a hard time talking about the "transethnic community" on tumblr without cursing.

I actually played a TON of poker in the first one. A TON.

I binge-played through Season 1 of The Walking Dead, and I thought playing Season 2 episodically would work for me.

Pretty much any Jimmy Eat World song. And yet I still enjoy "Always Be".

Yes. I remember a friend once said that it sounded like the lead singer had flunked out of the Neil Young School of Weather Metaphors after hearing "When You Were Young".

Tumblr never fails to come surprise me.