I once got questioned by a Dutch girl as to why American's would always just say "motherfucker" and never "sisterfucker" or "fatherfucker." The general consensus was that no other combination really rolled off the tongue like motherfucker. Many years later, South Park would prove us wrong with the song "Uncle…

Ah. That does clear up the coughing, thanks. Still weird, but it's an explanation, of sorts. I mean, if cyborg technology is that advanced, they should be able to do something about that cough; fit him up with a new pair of lungs, or something.

Have you gotten to the episode where they defend the hospital yet? This really highlighted one of the major flaws in the whole Clone Wars premise for me.

OK. Good to know. I'll use that arc as the final barometer. Thanks.

I just started watching the Clone Wars and am pretty disappointed in it. I've heard the standard refrain of, "It get's better. Just stick with it until season 2… or 3," or whatever, but it doesn't seem like it has the ability to get better.

It's either sponsored or they have illusions about being some of those "influential writers" who are being courted. Everyone likes to feel wanted!

I hoped that they would take the hint after I repeatedly just closed out of that pop-up window that comes up asking me to join their precious newsletter every goddamn time I click on an article without doing so, but it doesn't seem to be working. Instead, it continues to crash my browser with that and enough…

Isn't the Disappointments Room where they kept all the misfit Kennedy children?

I want to make a follow up joke about "screwing the machine" and "thickening stuff," but now I'm legitimately distracted thinking about trying your suggestion to thicken up a nice brown curry recipe.

I'm more worried about who's been screwing the machine. I don't ever want to know the secret ingredient that makes those mashed potatoes so viscous.

Or his laugh that sounded more like Burgess Meredith's Penguin or the Count from Sesame Street than anything I would associate with the Joker. Apparently he would "refine" his laugh while out and about, say eating dinner at a fancy restaurant, so this is the end result of hours of annoying and/or creeping out…

I never said that!

Honestly, good riddance! I am in no way taking credit for this, but I did, in fact, just email my distaste for the current state of their comments section to NPR and voice my opinion that they might as well just shut it down.

I never shat on her personal appearance, but I was more than happy to shit on her for her false rape accusations.

Also, an argument could be made that Dunham doesn't like Kanye and is just looking for excuses to hate on him. (For the record, I'm not a huge Kanye fan either.) The video is just Kanye (or the director, or whoever) subbing out famous people in Vincent Desiderio's painting Sleep and she disagrees with using Bill…

I'm arguing less with her use of it in the book than the way she treats it. Making a joke about how she was like a pedophile grooming her sister kinda reads like she still thinks it's funny and is almost proud of it, in a weird kind of way.

I think it's less that she told the story and more about how, as an adult, she still doesn't see anything wrong with it to the extent that she makes casual jokes about it. Yes, we've all done uncomfortable stupid things as a kid (I mean, not to this level, but I'm trying here), but most people look back and realize…

Can we use current examples to justify not liking her? Also, I am genuinely glad that the experience you describe has not negatively effected your life, but you can see how that may not be the norm, right? I think we've all been through some stuff and, for a lot of people, it effects them, sometimes very negatively,…

Yeah, she changed it after doing the same thing to another guy in the "leaked" manuscript.

Let's not forget that she also kind of accused not one, but two innocent guys of raping her by using pitch-perfect descriptions of them (one in the manuscript that was "leaked" and one in the final published book) in that particular chapter and then not understanding how maybe people could interpret that as accusing…