But think of all the tea bags it took to yellow the paper. Surely, that kind of dedication is worth something. Read more

Dostoyevsky is also very funny, even if he appears constipated in all of his daguerreotypes.

Probably around the same time that everyone had seen Requiem for a Dream and being addicted to heroin became too mainstream. Read more

amen — that gibbon looks like it could already beat most adult humans in an arm wrestling contest Read more

wow, I just realized how much that headline sounds like an AFV clip intro Read more

Can you understand what he's saying? It's like, when they get in front of the megaphone, all I hear is amplified gibberish. I feel like they'd have better luck just cornering random people on the street and being like, "If you were friends with Jesus, you wouldn't be throwing up right now. Jesus is like the Pepto… Read more

I popped over to Decadence the night after these guys were arrested — everyone seemed super-stoked that the cops got rid of them. Anyone have any street preacher confrontation stories (or been to Bourbon and experienced their awfulness)? A friend of mine once tried to climb one of their crosses...it didn't go well. Read more

just going to throw it out there — the guy third from the left looks a little bit like Rick Santorum... Read more

or not...which is sort of the point. Sort of — obviously there's a finite amount of space on the planet in which people can exist. I think the really interesting thing about talk of how trends cannot be sustained is what it means for short-term human adaptation. How do societies reorganize themselves to deal with… Read more

What about increases in population? There was a cool Talk of the Town a few months (?) ago that was all about how scientists have been worrying that the planet can't sustain another billion people, but the world population number keeps going up and, with it, the supposed ceiling of how many people can really exist on… Read more

tender mercies Read more

God. Could you imagine being a relative who had to go through a deceased hoarding relative's stuff? That could get sooo creepy. Read more

It's so true! And I want to see that cat skeleton show on TLC. Read more

The little boy is so me — my older cousin used to destroy me in checkers. It's so humiliating when someone shouts, "King me!" in a maniacal fit of triumph. Read more

I missed the Body Heat instant watch window on Netflix a while ago and I'm still reeling. Kathleen Turner is sooooo good. Read more

Yeah, dogs love walks SO MUCH. Mine is super skittish, so walks can get pretty interesting. I just wish I'd been able to teach her how to play Frisbee so there'd be something else to do other than to walk next to her while I'm holding a bag of her poop. I swear I think she realizes how, in those post-poop moments,… Read more

Has anyone seen that Morgan Spurlock product placement movie, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold? It's got this hilarious mock ad for Mane 'n Tail shampoo featuring a shetland pony in a bathtub. Read more

That's true, but, especially as immigration becomes a more divisive political issue in Western Europe, does a law like "no foul language in public" possibly open an avenue for xenophobic/bigoted politicians or law enforcement to single out certain segments of the population they believe to be primarily responsible for… Read more

So, in terms of everyday enforcement, could this law eventually become a method of racial profiling (since, according to the Guardian article, the street harassment problem is largely tied to the city's north African immigrant population), maybe similar to laws in France and the Netherlands? Read more

that movie is also about a big movie star in a scientology-like cult and omg I'm just backtracking now...watch Bowfinger, don't look at the man behind the curtain Read more