In Gladwell’s defense (on this point only), he’s a Canadian. Toronto has to default to Purge Rules anytime those two things are happening in the city at the same time just to balance its civil service budget.

I too am looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s newest movie, but this is a thread on the Legend of Zelda games.

Funny joke, but the premise of Outliers is not based around the 10,000-hour rule. It’s based on the idea that people who become outliers do so more by virtue of the circumstances they were born in, rather than from innate ability or “just being that much better.” If not a complete refutation of meritocracy, it’s a…

I imagine that Biden’s staffers are currently preparing a battery of talking points about how the first word in “automatically buy in” suggests that you don’t have to do anything in order to be opted in to Medicare.

No, they’re standing up to leave the stadium early and beat traffic.

Oh, they do respect his butt.

I’m torn between wanting to do my thesis on Classic Jeff or Karate Mark.

Just goes to show, if you’re going to touch a ref, make it count: four knuckles to the jaw.

Philadelphians have a different opinion on that matter:

No, but it actually scans better than the made-up word you used.

The fact that Apt Pupil was eventually adapted into a movie by Bryan Singer, of all people, just makes it that much creepier.

Not to sully your opinion of King even further, but The Shining is, in retrospect, a pretty obvious metaphor for a dad who keeps getting blackout drunk and is afraid he’s going to wake up to find that he’s done something terrible to his family. It’s always been an interesting historical coincidence that the kid King…

Nothing about The Death of Dick Long or the theatrical release of The Laundromat?

I dunno, I’m pretty sure it’s Raymond Burr’s Legs.

If this picture is what I think it is, then Dave Barry is cut out of frame on the left.

+1 username/comment synergy

I misread the title, and thought that the show was about a new senior outreach service in which millenials would pick up elderly, armed boomers, and drive them to whichever public location they would like to go to kill as many people as they could before the SWAT team took them down.

The absolute weirdest part, though, is that none of that unlikely fan base seems to have any affection for his role in The Town, easily his most memorable performance.

“deep down he was a person who wanted only to offer people care and kindness. It took him a while to figure out how.”

How many damn rom-coms does Lake Bell play a romantic rival in? I believe there are 2 separate Nancy Meyers films where she plays that role. Bell should put “sexually threatening to Nancy Meyers” as a line on her resume.