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Donnie Baseball got canned. No surprise there.

That's not in Yountville is it? Nope, it's not French Laundry, which is pretty famous. It's a fairly new place called Manresa in Los Gatos. I think the most I've spent on a dinner was about $400. That was at Nobu in Vegas. Well, I figured it wasn't Famous Dave's. Are you considering plonking down the $400?

That's not in Yountville is it?

John Boyega and Daisy Ridley are English. They have to secretly be evil.

This Back to the Future timeline may be in jeopardy.

It was a throwaway joke. And yes, it's been documented that PKD took his fair share of psychedelics, including LSD.

I did and I found it ripe with historical inaccuracies The author must have taken a lot of LSD.

That Zidane headbutt gif was classic.

Sucky news.

Do they really still ask that? It's been a while but I don't think they did specifically. They did ask whether I am a foreign agent.

America is built on traditions that allow us to discuss, debate, and even ridicule our country, people, and especially government. If foreigners want to do the same, I'm secure enough in my belief of Amerikan Exceptionalism to not care. There's plenty of faults but the USA is a very good country. I come from an immigrant and minority family. My parents escaped persecution and had to start over and work from the bottom when they immigrated and finally got decent middle class jobs working for the Post Office. They earned citizenship and strongly encouraged higher postgraduate education in two of their three kids. One is a mid-management public policy bureaucrat in Capitol Hill and the other is a Lt. Col. in the USAF J.A.G. Corp. Me, I'm the lazy asshat who got mediocre grades at a UC and spends too much time reading computer game oriented Internet message boards and also works for Uncle Sam on the side. (Debatable whether I passed my polygraph when they asked if I've ever been a card carrying member of the communist party) So I suppose I'm a little biased.

Uggghh. Rotatable camera control. Feels like a game out if the NWN era. And the font choice seems out of place. That said, it seems promising. Mind blowing that ever since Vault Dweller announced the game, three Dragon Age games have been released.

The way I would phrase it, is he's one of the less terrible ones. You guys and your cynicism...who do you like as a political commentator? Generally speaking, not the media hacks from cable news shows, and especially political commentary shows. Pretty much anything from PBS or NPR is solid though. MacNeil/Lehrer were dry back in the day but they weren't sensationalist. Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff follow the same sensibilities. Mark Shields and David Brooks are respected and insightful. The same can be said about All Things Considered on NPR with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, and Audie Cornish --as well as Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.

To be fair, the Catholic Church --especially the Benedictine monasteries preserved and advanced knowledge in Western Europe for hundreds of years through the "Dark Ages."

I've been a lifelong democrat and generally like Bill Clinton. Hillary...well, rubs me the wrong way. Like Bill, she's the consummate politician, but lacks all of his silver tongued, country-boy charm and general likeability. Whether it's her stance in issues or her personality, she's become far too polarizing, unfortunate as it is. That said, electing a socialist like Sanders just won't work in today's political climate either. My God...I may have to end up voting a Bush...

Hmm... I suppose perusing Playboy just for its articles is now going to be a real thing. http://www.mtv.com/news/2347704/playboy-nixing-nudity-magazines/ Sixty-two years after its debut publication — which featured Marilyn Monroe as its inaugural centerfold — Playboy magazine has decided to make a major change and offer no more nudity in print. Yes, you read that right: Playboy will no longer feature nude women in its pages. Secondly, the Playboy team now believes that the original purpose of the magazine — to revolutionize the picture of sex in America, essentially — has been completely fulfilled. “That battle has been fought and won,” Playboy’s CEO, Scott Flanders, told NYT.

So what's the early verdict?

That's not the worst thing that can happen from the Democrat perspective. It's not like a Tea Partier can be the next Speaker. Let them have their civil war. This is the crows coming home to roost.

Kevin McCarthy withdraws name for Speakership. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/08/kevin-mccarthys-implosion-signals-that-republicans-have-a-revolution-on-their-hands/ The Republican establishment is kaput.

213374U. Lols.

Not all voice actors --let alone for video games-- are card carrying SAG members. May as well go exclusively with the scabs.

Airman Stone seems to have a lot of bad luck with knives. http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/us/california-spencer-stone-stabbing/

So do you think that it wasn't a good movie in its own right? I thought it was excellent.