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I didn't say you did.

Please baby please baby baby baby pleeeease. ...on the other hand, do I really want poor Mick to have to put up with Cole for two hours every week?

Okay, let's just accept for one moment the laughable idea that HilRod would be willing to whack Barack. If she were willing to do it, why hasn't she done it already? After all, her shot of winning the primary is damn near nothing as long as Obama's around.

If you ever look at a breakdown of the ratings, 2001 was the year that the WWF's television really stalled. I'd argue that the insultingly botched mess of an Invasion was the main culprit, but you also had the deaths of both WCW and ECW, the Stone Cold heel turn, Rock running off to Hollywood, and so on. Still, I think I've yet to ever talk to a single casual fan who ever said that they actually liked Invasion, and have heard several of them say that they stopped wathcing the WWF because of it. I want to know what kind of drugs he was on when he thought that those painfully long and boring mock Tonight Show skits were just what they needed to compete with the Austin-McMahon feud. His mindset was probably that Jay Leno drew a higher rating than Raw. Right til the end, WCW never learned that non-wrestling celebrities usually don't draw their fans to watch them on a wrestling show.

Ah yes, the classic "you're only allowed to compare fat Samoans to other fat Samoans" internet debate.

Have any evidence which isn't forty years old?

In theory, they weren't unarmed. Hitting someone with a car is legally considered to be assault with a deadly weapon. Not agreeing with the verdict (especially for the one guy who emptied his gun, reloaded, and emptied it again, come on), but that's how they excused it: these guys tried to kill a cop, then tried to run away. Did anyone else notice the weird numbers in the shots fired? 50 shots fired. 21 struck the car. That means that the majority of the bullets went whizzing off into the distance, apparently striking some homes and a train station, where through luck alone nobody was injured. And also, add up those gunfire wounds: I didn't ever see a number for how many bullets hit the dead groom, but his passengers got 14 bullets between them, plus at least one for the dead guy. Even if you allow that a couple of the bullets might have hit more than one guy, that still means that the majority of the bullets that hit the car actually hit one of the occupants. Now let's slow down and think about that, really. 29 shots completely missed. 15 hit the men. Only 6 hit the car but not the guys? "Incredibly unlikely" doesn't even begin to cover it. Ever gone target shooting? Ever brought back a paper target with a bunch of holes in the bullseye, a bunch more that missed the target completely, but only a few in between? Something doesn't add up here.

After reading this whole thing, two basic points: 1. I was greatly amused by various people trying to turn this into a blacks vs. whites thing and cry RAYC1SM... until it turned out that most of the cops involved weren't white. 2. Absolutely wrong. I wish people would read up on how real gunfights work, and not take their assumptions from action movies. The only way you can really shoot out the tires of a moving vehicle is to be in another moving vehicle yourself. Remember how on Star Trek: The Next Generation, in order to transport from one starship to another while they were in warp drive, the transporting ship first had to pull up alongside and match the other ship's speed? Same basic thing here. Also, how ballistics work, it's not easy for a bullet to penetrate something which is spinning real fast, like a tire. (When you use the alongside-trick tire shoot in a car chase, typically police will fire a shotgun; a spread of shot like that has a much higher probability of puncturing a tire than a solid bullet. These cops only had pistols.) If you're standing still and you're aiming at the tires of a speeding car, then you're either an Olympic-level target shooter or a complete idiot. That being said, treating the occupants of this car like they were Bonnie & Clyde was obviously a wee bit of an overreaction.

That's the problem with breathalyzers: they're often wildly inaccurate. There's a hundred variables that can skew the results one way or another. (Remember the scene with McLovin the cops messing with the breathalyzer in Superbad? You can really do that, if you know how.) And even if the blood-alcohol results themselves were dead on, that still ignores the fact that different people's bodies react differently to the same amount of alcohol. One person can be acting goofy and wasted on a 0.05, while another could be over the 0.1 limit but still seem completely sober.

I think I know that guy. Well, maybe not, "Josh Moore" isn't exactly a rare name, but the one I knew sure loved him some reefer and was totally goofy enough to do something like this. EDIT: I checked out the picture, and nope, not him. Though it does look a little bit like him. Wacky.

Well that was just about the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Sayid finally reunites with Nadia, and she gets whacked shortly thereafter. The last thing Alex hears before getting shot in the head is that she's a bastard and Ben doesn't care about her. Lost has had a real problem with killing people off way too soon, when they easily could've done more with those characters. Aside from the usual "answers that only lead to even more questions" stuff, at least the plot moved along somewhat in this one. The smog monster eating the freighter folk was a nice markout moment: Welcome to The Island, bitches. Plus that shootout, though short, was surprisingly badass and violent for network tv. I admit I LOL'd when three people in a row came out all "dude, what's going on AHHH" and got shot. How many Red Shirts are left among the survivors now?

Please explain exactly how all this stuff works to the 99% of us who don't have access to medi-mari. What kind of health problems must you (pretend to) have in order to qualify for it? Where do you buy it? How much can you buy at once? What are the prices like? How do the standard drug laws affect you? If you're pulled over and they find it in your car, is that a crime? Can you only smoke it in your own home? Do the cops still bust people using medi-mari anyway? Did you say that there are THC-laced gum and suckers?! Help educate a poor brother trapped in Red State hell.

I really have to move to Cali as soon as I'm able to.

When it's lazy repetition of the same stereotypes, oh yeah. Like pretty much any time that Family Guy takes a random potshot at the South. It just comes off as being the whining of some hippie douchebag who's never even been there. My geographic experience is limited, but from many of the people I've met here, lots of Texans seem to still think they're the sovereign nation of the Lone Star Republic. Is it PC for me to refer to Annie with the word "freak" on this one? I see your Husker fan Lushus, and I raise you with an Aggie fan. You have to see the high school stadiums here in TX to believe it. An utterly appalling amount of time, money, and effort is spent on football here. Fixed that for ya.

I thought it was pretty good. Not blowaway Tenorman greatness, not nauseating Towelie suckfest, just pretty good. The jokes about the 1864 folk are funnier if you've ever been to a place like that, or a renaissance fair, or whatever, where you get those incredibly annoying fuckers who refuse to break character. It's like, dude, you don't sound even remotely like how people actually talked back then, please shut the fuck up.

So we hate this movie because it's good? Interesting logic.

Missouri seceeded into the Confederacy in 1861. ONE OF US, ONE OF US.

This is maybe the single most succinct yet accurate description of TNA and Russo's apparent booking philosophy.

Have you ever been to the South? If so, for how long? Where do you live, and where else have you lived in the past? Just curious. That's your debating point? "They had slavery 150 years ago, so they're racist"? You sound kinda like someone who's never had to deal much with racism or racists in your personal life. And he lost. He's also run for President several times. OMG, the whole country is racy1st!!! Hailstorms and dustbowls are very rare. Tornadoes somewhat less so, but they get as many if not more of those on the great plains. Hot and humid... so what? I'd rather be sweating than freezing. And it gets cold enough at times, it's dipped below zero degrees Farenheit a few times during my tenure in TN. How about those horrific earthquakes out West which hardly ever happen down South? Only if you insist on having old-fashioned greasy fried Southern cooking. In some places, you'd have to really search to find a restaurant like that. Southerners pretty much eat the same McDonalds that the rest of the country does. No. The football fanatics in Texas far, far out-crazy the ones in the real South. No. The KKK was founded in the town of Pulaski, TN. A few years back, they tried to do a march there for their anniversary, and the town government banned them from setting foot in town.

Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot the absolute greatest child-killing ever. It's not a horror flick in the strictest sense, but close enough: the original Assault on Precinct 13. Back in college, I found out who my real friends were by showing them that movie, and then seeing who laughed their asses off at that particular scene.

How would that even be physically possible? Until pubescence hits, a male should be biologically incapable of having sex, at least in the role of pitcher anyway. I don't recall getting boners back in my grade-school days.

In Juno's case, the Single Parent question is irrelevant because they're not going through an adoption agency. It's one private citizen transferring custody of their child directly to another.

Dude, don't just start naming every movie EVER where a kid died, cuz then you eventually have to include everything from My Girl to Titanic and the pain would never stop. How'sabout limiting it to actually seeing a child die, on-screen, in a horror film?