In 1995 my grandmother's best friend was murdered in her home in Queens by a 16 year old who smashed her skull with a hammer while she lay in her bed before stealing her purse, a necklace, and her rosary beads. This year he was released from prison. I don't know how to feel about that.
With Lost coming to Netflix everyone has been bemoaning how binge watching and streaming models of television mean no one makes filler episodes anymore, and it's just kind of sweet that we all so fondly remember these.
I get that freedom of speech is important but can we pass a law making it illegal to ask "what was that loud noise" on social media during the first week of July
It's very odd to me that I've never seen An American Tail streaming on any service. You can buy or rent it off Amazon or Google, but it doesn't stream anywhere. Who owns the rights to it now, anyway?
Someone please explain to me how the "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney" song has persisted amongst upper elementary school kids, despite the show Barney & Friends being off air for over a decade and none of these kids have ever seen an episode.
Apparently all the country's problems will be solved if BlueSky succeeds in cyber bullying Jamelle Bouie into quitting his job and working at McDonalds. Who knew.
I know there's a lot of terrible news at the moment, but please join me in grief as I realize the annual hospital fundraiser that my daughter's dance studio performs in has changed locations from a random hotel to the Great Wolf Lodge.
"Fun" hypothetical is if the president gives you an order to conduct an illegal action, can you still be prosecuted under UCMJ or local laws for completing that action? Can you also be prosecuted for refusing the order, because it's legal for the President to order it? Catch-22 possibilities abound.
Talking about wanting to assassinate government officials is a great way to play the "um the feds showed up at my door, do I need a lawyer now" lottery
PSA: if you're talking about doing actual political violence on social media in public, you are a dangerously ignorant twerp who lacks the situational awareness required to do anything useful for anyone.
Rent and Tick, Tick, Tick....Boom! are two Jonathan Larson pieces where a main plot point is the protagonist tries to write one great song and the difference between the two shows is that the song in Tick, Tick, Tick.... Boom! is actually good.
Every four years a new generation gets to boldly claim that the presidential candidates are so terrible that they are thinking of leaving the US, as if that is an easy thing to just decide to do.
The strongest indicator that Gavin Newsom fans don't know what they're talking about is how many times I've seen people earnestly argue that his nomination would guarantee Democrats the California electoral votes, as if California currently has a chance of going for Trump in 2024.
Millennials make fun of Boomers for having a bunch of collectibles that no one will want when they die but it's better than what Gen Alpha's inheritance will be: a bunch of flattened Amazon cardboard boxes in the garage that their Millennial parents have been meaning to get rid of for thirty years.
You will also never stop being told that if you go west from the Cumberland Gap that you will not hit Johnson City, TN, as Johnson City is about 100 miles Southeast of Cumberland Gap.
As life goes on you realize you’ll never stop being told by someone that “South Detroit” in the Journey song isn’t a real place as if you hadn’t heard that before.
The New Jersey woman who was trying out for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders on the Netflix series... I was assuming her dad was from the south or something, but no, those parents were straight up out of North Jersey central casting. Where did that obsession come from?
