Posted by Peter Zale, creator of the late and much-lamented Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet:
If you show it, will they assemble?
I should stipulate that this only applies to states where the Coronavirus is taken seriously:
If Avengers 5 opened this weekend, would people pack the theatres?
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You Be the Judge: Summer Rentals
If you paid to rent a summer beach home, and everything’s either closed or severely limited, should you be entitled to a refund?
Be vewy, vewy quiet…
The €400 Ice Cream
Would you let the fine stand?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tintin?
Yes, it’s an unqualified classic. But it’s also… problematic.
Giving Leap Day a Bad Name
I just happened to notice today that serial killer Aileen Wuornos was born on Leap Day in 1956, and then fellow serial killer Richard Ramirez on the following Leap Day, four years later.
No real point to this, just an oddity.
Close to Kemosabe
Boise Ed sent me this article from the Daily Cartoonist, with the comment “Does this mean that the whole Lone Ranger series is somehow offensive now?”
Holy Hitman
Okay, here’s the question:
If you engage a hitman to kill somebody, and he fails to compete the job (or he was actually an FBI informant and turned you in, which is your own fault for not having checked him out on Yelp), you’re still guilty of solicitation to murder.
All that matters is that you believed he would carry out the hit. And no money needed to have changed hands.
So… if you call on God (in front of witnesses) to kill somebody (in the sincere belief that God both exists and would be willing to smite somebody on your behalf), are you equally guilty?
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