This seems like a silly assertion to me. If the only point of school was training factory workers there would be a lot more focus on manual dexterity and a lot less focus on reading Ethan Frome and learning differential equations.

The fallacy of reification, although in this case it is a subversion of the fallacy since the, uh, phallus is both symbolic/emblematic and real/concrete (though hopefully not *too* concrete).

"X beat Y in the battle of who cares in the year fuck off" The Victory of the X army in the battle of Who Cares (2015 - fuck off) years ago is the primary reason why the Xian ethnic group militias are able to round up residents of Yian minority villages and shoot them in ditches on the side of the road throughout the…

I definitely remember being told in middle school that I had to do well on certain standardized tests in order to be placed on the right math education track in high school in order to qualify for a good college engineering program in order to achieve my goal of , as I said it at the time, "being an astronaut". So…

JOIN ME OR DIE, CAN YOU DO ANY LESS?

Hey I'm Mr. Meeseeks! Look at meeee!

It was better than Season 2 (and by extension season 3) of Homeland, but they really turned it around in Season 4. Let's hope it's not a Dexter-style false dawn…

SKUUUULL

Strictly speaking, no. The 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Roosevelt's Rough Riders) was an all-white unit. However the 10th US Cavalry Regiment, a black unit and therefore composed of "buffalo soldiers", also fought in the Battle of San Juan Hill so it's certainly possible to have both been a buffalo soldier and…

You guys! I found Pynchon! He's over here!

I thought that was True Detective Season 2?

I like that you started this explanation with a "Hey, this could have happened to anyone" disclaimer. That was very civil.

That's GOLD, Jerry!

Can confirm.

The second Modern Warfare game. It has a level where a group of Russian Agents Provocateurs massacre hundreds of civilians at Domodedovo International Airport to create a casus belli for war with the West. The game actually puts you in the shoes of one of the shooters (who is a CIA officer undercover with the…

Who can tell me what the fuck 'Rampart' was about? Aside from Harrelson's character having the weirdest family situation in human history (literal sister wives).

Who can tell me what the fuck 'Rampart' was about? Aside from Harrelson's character having the weirdest family situation in human history (literal sister wives).

Not sure, but at Sasquatch! this year she wasn't doing the grandma hair anymore, it was more of an angular 5th Element pixie in black. She changes looks like Bowie.

Where they solve crimes and in between she tries to talk him into acting as the antagonist in her violent sex fantasies/butt stuff?

This is the stealth 2.5th season spinoff of Silicon Valley.