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So, only if life is on the line, only in the one situation where it matters the most that they're clearly guilty, only then will they no longer need to be certain. OK, who specifically is he trying to get rid of? Because he wouldn't be doing this if there weren't someone specific he's trying to...

Plenty of cops have enough body armor that they almost never have to fear for their lives now, and it doesn't seem to have helped. Because it's not about whether their excuse is plausible or not. 99% of the time, they're not actually having to make their case to the general public, or an...

Also, given how most police departments are, a "shortage of officers" isn't even a problem; if anything it's the solution to one.

Lady and the Tramp II was the first Disney sequel that actually annoyed me with its lazy casting, particularly the title characters, who sound nothing like their 1950s counterparts. (I even know who would have been perfect for Lady: Kate Hutchison, who played the librarian on Arthur.) Oh, and a...

Ironically, this is also the movie that planted a lifelong confusion as to why we don't refer to our native peoples as "aborigines", as John does early on in the film. Australia doesn't have a monopoly on that word! Fun fact: That opening song is on a three-disc collection of Disney songs that...

It also depends on how Twitter is operating. A company that big probably has offices all around the world, meaning it needs to have business licenses (or the local equivalent) in all those countries, which presumably means it is legally obliged to abide by the strictest laws of all of those...

Hmm. I never considered that our refusal to let certain countries go nuclear, backed with the threat of war, meant that we might be dooming them to a future without sufficient power. If you believe the stories about renewables being insufficient to meet a modern nation's energy needs, anyway...

It's probably the best non-ironic adaptation of the book ever made, for what that's worth. For as many attempts as have been made over the years, it's notoriously hard to adapt because it's so aggressively weird and full of references that modern audiences (which is to say, virtually everyone...

She was in the game for like one chapter, then she got bit and I think Joel shot her dead, either at her request or at least with her consent. Part of me wants to spoiler tag that, because it's likely what's going to happen on the show, but it's literally what happened in the game all of us...

"Could God make a rock so heavy he couldn't lift it?" "Could Musk unban a user so toxic Musk had to re-ban him?" Same energy.

I've just realized how often this sort of thing happens. Trump is seen associating with this or that problematic person, gets called on it, denies he knows who the person even is... and he's just dumb enough that he always has plausible deniability. We could put the classified-documents incident...

And neither can the UK.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this the first version of the story (on record, at least) to establish that Snow White and the prince had at least met prior to him coming to the rescue in the end? Same with Sleeping Beauty. Oh, and speaking of records, did you know this was the first movie...

Frankly at this point I wonder if this is one of those things that a lot of outgoing presidents have done, and this is just the first time we're finding out about it.

Well, it's how left-wing movements burn out, anyway. The far-right has already succeeded in overrunning one of America's two major political parties, and that comes with a sort of permanent legitimacy akin to being in the UN Security Council. No matter how evil you are, you'll always have a seat...

If corporations are people, then it stands to reason that they deserve the death penalty when it's clear they have killed people on purpose.

It does make one wonder why there are so many Americans willing to loan so much money to their own government under such generous terms that it's never had to actually pay any of it back. They've always been able to do the equivalent of opening a new credit card account to get the debt...

I want to have a good laugh about this, but as long as it remains cheaper (and legal) to just import those from third-world countries that use slave labor, those deposits will probably stay right where they are.

And the credit card companies won't cut you off because of the implied threat that you'll come to their houses and murder them.

Generous indeed; the more and better reasons he has to not seek reelection, the more certain I am that he will anyway. Not that anyone else who has a chance of winning would be any less ineffectual as a leader.