I just want one of those roly-poly ball robots. Sooooooooooo Cuuuuuuuuuute.

I was 6 years old when the first Star Wars movie came out. It was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater (as opposed to a drive-in). People in their mid-40's are the first generation of Americans to have Star Wars embedded across their entire life (at least the part of life you have distinct memories of).

This goes back to The Honeymooners & I Love Lucy, though. If Ralph & Lucy weren't such passive-aggressive lunatics, the entire TV landscape would be a different place today.

Sports Night proved that pretentious assholes will defend absolute garbage if they think it makes them look smarter.

Thing is, I assume Liv will just go down to the Verizon store & pick up a new phone, keeping her old number. If they are intercepting traffic from the wireless network, they won't even notice the new phone. If they had placed a physical device in her old phone, well, I'm sure her roommate can place another.

And still, the worst indignity he has to suffer is being named "Major Lillywhite"

And he could teach his cat to poop in the toilet! (Mingus wrote a pamphlet on this topic)

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union during the Civil War; many South Carolinians remain intensely proud of that to this day.

If anything, that stuff is worse now. Much worse, in some cases. Although most of the hardcore assholes are not actually in Little League, as they have their kids playing in more competitive travel leagues.

Maybe it will get Cubs fans to finally let go of the whole Bartman thing. I was on the Brown Line last week during a visit & I got to hear VERY LOUD CUBS FAN GUY go on for the entire trip about how Bartman should have been arrested. Arrested. For catching a foul ball. In a game that happened 12 years ago.

In fairness to Rocky, the movie is based (loosely) on an actual event. Chuck Wepner, a mediocre white fighter who had spent his career as a stepping stone and undercard guy, unexpectedly got a shot at the heavyweight title from Muhammed Ali (on whom Creed is obviously patterned). Wepner knocked Ali down once & made it…

I guess I am old, because growing up "one of the good ones" was pretty much universal racist code as in, "Those <racial slurs=""> are destroying our country. No, not you, Dave, you're one of the good ones."

So, basically it is Archer without the jokes?

Polls have shown, again and again, that close to half of all Americans reject evolutionary theory. I'm pretty sure that half contains very few people who do not identify with some form of Christianity, or perhaps Islam.

Meh. We routinely expend massive resources to rescue one (or a few) people. We went all out for Bowe Bergdhal, when it wasn't even clear if he was perhaps a deserter. We launch massive rescue efforts for one person missing in the woods, even when sometimes it turns out they were just on a long hike.

Oh, they were obviously thought up ahead of time, and often blurted out at times when they barely related to anything happening on the field.. Miller would just sit in the booth waiting for a lull so he could unleash whatever quip he had on the notecard in front of him.

What I found awful about his tenure on MNF is that his "obscure references" were never things he came up with in the spur of the moment - these were bits he had written and then tried to shoehorn into the action of a football game. They almost always came off as forced, and made him seem even more like "guy at a party…

Matt Bahr? He wasn't even Chris Bahr.

Yeah, if this is a guarantee we only have to deal with 12 more years of Bieber, I'm all for it.

I read that as "Mississippi", saw your comment, read it again, and upvoted. So an upvote for you, too.