Docked points for failure to mention Avery Brooks.

No. Movies are much, much worse now.

Like, who’s to say the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Harry Potter won’t be seen as “universally beloved” in 30-40 years

You guys have seen those galleries of images of horror-show interiors of desktops opened at like the Geek Squad, right?

I’ll come clean: I covet my neighbor’s ass.

I once did the frozen hard drive trick! And it worked!

Looks like fairly average game concept art. Throw a dart blindfolded into Deviantart and you’ll hit about 50 things like this.

While probably mathematically correct, I feel like including “have fewer children” in these comparisons is a category mistake. People have children. It’s normal. Thanks to modern technology and culture, people can often control exactly how many children they want to have. To suggest they have fewer children for…

I’d also say: We need to burn more trash. Yeah, that’s burning carbon and reducing use would be better, but we happen to have a lot of trash lying around, it has nonzero effects on the environment itself (all those strangled turtles in plastic rings, etc), and we’re going to have it for a while to come. Also, modern…

There’s something I heard: That for ordinary working- or middle-class wage earners and modern-day price structures, a debt of more than 7% interest compounded daily is essentially unserviceable. Either you pay it off immediately or you will never pay it off, not before paying like 50 or 100% more than you borrowed.…

I think the problem with all these attempts to revive long-dead franchises is that studios always see them as launchpads for more sequels...

I really, really did not care for Lethal Weapon 4. For me, violence against children is a nope-out (which is why I stopped watching Game of Thrones 20 minutes in when they pushed that kid off the tower). So the scene from LW4 where a Chinese mafia guy holds a knife up to Rene Russo’s pregnant belly in order to get…

Danny Glover gave a speech at my college (this would have been about 20 years ago). He’s very vocal. Damned if I could tell you what about because the speech was a *thing to behold*. This being in an age before ubiquitous pocket-cameras, there’s probably no record of it anywhere but the man was obviously either VERY…

I’ve tried to watch various ‘naughty nun’ schlock like this before but my Catholic-school-educated (specifically: the Carmelites) wife just can’t take it. It’s just a category error to her: “No. No. NO! No? No. Nuh-uh.” she says. Nuns to her are just these incredibly dowdy, nonsexual disciplinarians. The idea of them…

Guy at 0:12 is egregiously greasy.

This is a manufactured controversy and you’re the PC police.

Savage. Savage savage savage savage savage. Savage. Voldemort.

that’s just because the whole groups shrank

People giving and/or HEAVILY recommending things for you to read is that a.) they are invariably books I do not want to read and b.) I often *don’t* enjoy them, just as I suspected I would or c.) I occasionally *do* enjoy them but I can’t let the person who gave/recommended the book know that otherwise they get this…

But then again the thing with Disqus is that there are the people who use Disqus.