A simple flyer reading:

"Check out our great value deals!"

Followed by 600 pages of nested footnotes both exploring how value is calculated under modern economic conditions and being unbelievably catty to various 19th century economists and finally promising to return to how these deals are struck in volume two of this ad flyer for Toothless Sam's Car Emporium.

Do you take this pregnancy test by having your water break on it? That lady is unreasonably pregnant.

I bet Air Force One looks strange enough to freak out a bored patrol cop and make him fear for his life.

If those Barcelona caves get explored this is a price I am willing to pay.

This is an Alan Wagner. He makes lots of stuff like this and it's great!

Assad's gotta go

-The Grim Reaper

I'm glad someone took the time to reach out and touch the life of someone who has touched so many lives.

Did he hear him described as a "John Doe" without having that term explained to him?

Trolleys are wonderful and I use them in my daily life to get around. I don't want to be late because they're cleaning the Thompson cartiledge out of the tracks just because you can't frame your moral problems around high intensity lasers or something else that doesn't affect my commute.

If they could have had a slightly more heroic jawline the police might have let them be. It's just the cost of feeling safe.

Except instead of killing one stranger to save five you are killing one person to earn $10 and saving no one and then repeating the process, letting you kill more people to earn more money. Still apparently a moral mystery to some people, but I think framing it around an operator of public transport starts to fall apart.

It is, and I have a really easy time imagining Parenti adapting it for his time.

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

Now, this is not exactly the same as what Rosa Luxemburg was talking about, but I sure don't feel like I'm twisting and misrepresenting the quote by using it in this context.

If I was inclined to give one former Cigna executive tips, I would tell them that if they think this is the moment to go public with what they find "most disturbing", whatever that is, then one former Cigna executive may have misread the public mood slightly.

Whether human or robotic dog, I am baffled by the decision to cover your drug courier in advertisements for drugs.

Ok, they will not catch him and I know none of us are surprised, but is no one going to ask the NYPD why they already have an AI trained in phrenology? Guess at least they'll have fun looking for a man with the sinister slanted nose bridge of a cowardly Saxon wheelwright or whatever their AI comes up with after training itself by reading every work ever written about studying the bone structure of the human head.

We need to send our thoughts and prayers everyone. If this can happen to the CEO of a health insurance company it shows that our thoughts and prayers are working and we need to be doing more of them.

The first season could be watched by someone like me who knew nothing about the game or its universe and it worked great. The second season not so much. There are a lot of things obviously crammed in just because they're in the game and they're not just little easter eggs but important plot points that just come out of nowhere as far as I'm concerned. Still, I'm not too disappointed. The animation is fantastic, I like the voice acting and there are a lot of good individual moments in the show even if it doesn't quite add up to a coherent whole.

Who needs all those use by labels anyway?

Oh great, I get all the problems of a Doctor Who companion with none of the benefits. There's a primordial black hole in my building and I don't even get to visit a Celtic spa with weirdly modern morals. This sucks!