I want them to bring this sound back!

Robbzilla: Thank you for personifying the idiocy of people who don’t believe there is sensible gun control in the middle. You completely ignore that there are gun control restrictions in place already, and that you and your gun nut buddies are continually trying to get them rescinded.

Even if you don’t get killed, there is a huge variation between exploding and breaking your facial bones. In another word, your airbag may only have 99% of the power needed to explode, but that bag coming out is going to do some unplanned face lift to your face!

“ she didn’t know she hit him”. Oh, okay, so your best defense is a reckless disregard for use of a fucking firearm? Like, I deal with a lot of homeless folks. Thanks to our broken mental health system, a lack of social services, and rampant drug abuse, it is totally possible for a homeless guy to, for want of a…

I don’t know if it was an attempt at a joke, but no, A Farewell to Arms is not considered obscure at all. It’s classic literature.

And it is contrasted with “a classic like The Great Gatsby.” You could switch those two and the sentence would read exactly the same. If you were taking a course called “The Classic Modern American Novel” and read just 3 books, You would probably read those two (or The Sun Also Rises) and The Sound and the Fury. Farewe…

I came to post the same thing. If “A Farewell to Arms” is considered obscure, we, as a society, are far less well read than I thought, and my bar was pretty low to begin with.

My thoughts, exactly. Are they not teaching much Hemingway in undergrad these days? I hated Hemingway, but that doesn’t mean he’s not firmly ensconced in the canon.

Chloe Bennet grew up on the south side of Chicago, her father a first generation Chinese-American and her mother Caucasian. Bennet’s family consists of six brothers — three siblings are biological and three siblings are adopted (African-American and Mexican, respectively). Additionally — and to this day — in any…

I’m in a similar boat. I’m a light-skinned, mixed Latina with a foreign first and last name. My siblings have more “American” first names, so they have it a bit easier, but people are constantly asking me why I don’t change my name, or give nicknames to people that are easier to pronounce. I don’t answer to nicknames,…

Long, long history of that in Hollywood. Huge numbers of actors had to change their names to get famous, both for racist reason (their name was very “ethnic” and Hollywood hates that) or because their name was hard to pronounce. For example, for Jews, you’ve got Marilyn Monroe = Norma Jean Mortensen, Kirk Douglas =…

My 77 year old FIL, a military guy, Republican, NRA member is disgusted with the last two. He feels the current Republican philosophy has nothing to do with his ethics; hasn’t been in the last 30 years. He also tore up his NRA card and wrotthat he wants nothing to do with them and that this current iteration is a…

And I’m willing to bet they insist on defining themselves as “moderate” Republicans.

If they ask why, slowly shake your head and say that you’re incredibly disappointed in them for supporting such a terrible person. Don’t break eye contact for a full minute. Then turn and walk away.

“Later, spotting a crowd of people, he said “What a crowd!” and “What a turnout!”

Agreed. I watched the Senna document and he seemed liked just another arrogant asshole often saying god gave him his abilities and wins when it’s like uh, no, a big imaginary man in the sky didn’t do this, you did from practicing like a gazillion times when you were young and by often making dangerous passes…

unrelated, but i drink about 6-8 cups of yorkshire gold a day. it’s great stuff.

Texas: Where stopping one illegal immigrant is worth risking hundreds of citizens lives.