If Bezos had 99% of his wealth taken away, it would actually be pretty impactful to everyone. His wealth is tied up in Amazon stock; he owns more than 40% of the company, and about 35x the average daily volume. If you tax that all at once, at 99%, and force him to liquidate, you tank the price of the stock, and end up…

I often think that the geology and wildlife in Yellowstone exist simply as a pointed lesson to tourists on natural selection.

Edmund Kemperer was the character.  The guy who played him, played him perfectly - he was spooky as hell.

It’s pronounced “in the shop.”

The teachers unions, however, are rolling in dough. The AFT has a well-stocked “Al Shanker Memorial Wine Cellar,” for cryin’ out loud.

Your #8 really isn’t fair.  Jimmy Carter still deserves a mention.

From what little I know about how Jackson selects some of his projects, I’m virtually certain he signed on to this movie just for that one scene.

Damn, there’s a Hallmark card for everything...

“The Squad” and moderate democrats were starting to split. Trump tweets racist idiocy, and the moderate dems are forced to defend “The Squad,” and somehow forces a vote on impeachment that goes in his favor. That’s...actually not very idiotic. (I’d like to blame that circus of a session yesterday on him...but I think…

So I didn’t vote for Trump, but I’m racist, because I didn’t vote for Clinton, because she’s racist.

It’s an odd budgetary quirk that’s killed lots of programs: decrease the purchase and increase development time, until the platform becomes unaffordable, then reduce the purchase even more because it’s “unaffordable,” and it becomes REALLY unaffordable.

They were considering naming it “Bills,” but realized it would only target folding tables.

You are misunderstanding that mythbusters clip so badly it’s funny. I guarantee you, that water was undergoing a phase change before they introduced the spoon: water was changing from liquid to vapor at the water’s surface.

I don’t think nucleation matters in this situation, though.  You open a pressurized container of superheated water, it flashes into steam and erupts, nucleation or not.

Well, yeah, but that was the core’s fault. They didn’t name it the “demon core” for nothing.

The first spaghetti western practically was a kung fu movie - samurai movie, actually. Fistful of Dollars is a remake of Yojimbo, practically scene-for-scene. 

I bought a nice leather-bound collection for my niece when she turned seven. I remembered them as nice children’s stories, but hadn’t read them in a long while, so sat down to read The Little Match Girl...”Wait, what the fuck? This shit is dark! Why was I allowed to read this as a kid? I’m not giving this to a seven…

Yes, often lost in the Disneyfication of The Little Mermaid is the fact that the original story is rather brutal and sadistic, as many of HCA’s stories were.

“Megan Rapinoe is arrogant.”

But if we’re being honest, that commentary sounds stupid coming from an American.