Biden’s campaign needs to get on the horn with Jack Handey immediately to discuss the possibility of labeling their attack ads: “Deep Thoughts, by Donald Trump”.

Well, it was not necessarily a bad idea in theory, because they’re counting on the upside of, in Steve Bannon’s words, flooding the zone with shit. By issuing 20 separate lies every day, it makes it harder to isolate and target any one lie. If you ask some random man on the street for receipts, he’ll be unlikely to…

Yeah, this is a classic example of how misogyny hurts men just as much as it does women. The only thing that Lautner was doing wrong was failing to conform to an established masculine archetype. If he was one of those perfect guys who happen to be gay, that’s a slur and a stereotype, but it’s also a box that we…

The biggest thing to note about Biden, and perhaps the biggest upside to having him leading the ticket (beyond his ability to mollify nervous old white people who are concerned about the communism, anyway) is that he doesn’t appear to have any fixed beliefs. He has a record of supporting the banks and businesses, but…

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It’s really simple when you think about it; in fact, Trump uses “cheating” to call out anything that he believes goes against him. Trump’s brain functioning isn’t more advanced than an 8-year-old, and basically, if you beat an 8-year-old in Connect Four, there is a good chance that you are going to be accused of…

Even better, it hits a bully where he lives. Trump is not a particularly bright guy, but like any bully, he’s got a very high social IQ. And he always keeps his insults simple, and visceral. You can either go high by not playing at his level, or your go low well. We’re playing by Peter Pan rules:

I still wonder why nobody ever used the phrase “President Chump”. I mean, it’s right there . . .

He does appear to be the Barenaked Ladies of The A.V. Club. . .

I would have gone with “The film that single-handedly justifies OSHA”, or as it was known in 1981, Roar!:

In retrospect, the only redeeming element of that game is that it would usually do a much better job of disguising how impossible it was to win. I can’t tell you how many games were disrupted long before the cycle stages by the Seven Stages of Battletoads Gaming:

To this day, I kind of mentally ask myself “Okay, the game is hard. But is it Battletoads or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-hard?” Because those games were damn impossible.

Well, I’m hardly the best at reading people. Usually, I can’t do it at all unless I have a lot of data points to work with. But in this case, I do have some help with the cast-and-crew episode commentaries for Community that I have on DVD. And their evaluation of Glover was pretty consistent: he’s a generational…

Yeah, creating stable, long-term societies probably did more than anything else to shift the calculus that the Norse ran about respecting treaties. The main advantage that the Norse had was strategic mobility: because they controlled the sea, they could roam at will, and hit wherever was not defended before slipping…

*pushes glasses up nose*

Well, given that Fadlan is talking about the Volga Bulgars, while the English are talking about Northmen who lived in what is presently Norway, there’s not necessarily any incongruity there. Both because the Volga Bulgars are separated by thousands of miles from the Norse, but also because there’s a world of…

Okay, first of all, props to Robert James for calling Barnhill’s actions out as unacceptable. Just as one of those gremlin attorneys who sits in the back office and churns out paperwork, I have no more experience with criminal prosecution than, more or less, reading my Criminal Procedure textbook. And even I could see…

Aw, geez Emily, you realize you just pushed poor Larry down yet another rung on the Hemsworth family ladder. . .

Got it in one.