I’m 100% on board with you there. I’ve long believed that one cannot continue to exist as a practicing conservative if one possesses a functioning irony gland. And without irony, all humor except the cruelest slapstick just sort of passes you by.

I’m kind of locked into the roller coaster at the start of the ride Ms. Dion describes—the part where the cars are clackety-clacking as they’re pulled up and up, towards the crest of the first giant hill, and the  inevitable plummet that follows.  See, my wife passed from colorectal cancer 6 days ago, and once her…

Me and a buddy were making the drive from L.A. to Gilroy, which means the hypnotic blandness of the 5, the Golden State Freeway. Somewhere on that interminable stretch of nothing between Coalinga and Los Baños, we were treated to the excitement of a big, leather-exterior, Oldsmobile 88–probably a 1985 model,…

I shouldn’t be throwing in good argument after bad weaseling, I really shouldn’t. But I’m pretty sure I’ve lost a few IQ points from the unrelenting juggernaut of dumb that is your take on this matter, and I’m no longer quite clever enough to avoid engaging you, so....

“Rutger Hauer never saw things that I wouldn’t believe. He never glittered in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. But I would like to wish his replicants well. He failed the Voight-Kampff test, and I respect sociopaths. I respect fake humans a lot, you skin-job people a lot.  He was a real replicant.”

NEVER FORGET:

A ladder, you say? Hmm...

I’m shocked to hear that it’s only 3%.  I figured that, if nothing else, the usual colonizer-rapes-locals/servants/slaves atrocities would have resulted in a much higher incidence of Spaniard DNA in your average Filipino—especially since Spain owned the PI for, what, 333 years?

Have you heard Ice Cube’s “Bop Gun” with George Clinton? It’s damn amazing, and really outs Cube as a true scholar of the Afro-Futurist Mothership mythos.

I’m not terribly comfortable defending anyone (even a fellow Filipino) who appears to me to be clearly lying about having cancer, especially since my wife was diagnosed with colon cancer 4 years ago. But Filipinos as an ethnicity are pretty much a blend of indigenous Philippine Islander, Spanish, and Chinese/Malay,…

Maya Rudolph, formerly of SNL, says that Ivanka always talks “like she has a sexy secret.”

Your uncle was Irwin Mainway??  Awesome!

Some of your best work, right there.

Hey, now! Arby’s “Traditional” lamb gyro is pretty damn tasty. And while I’m defending fast-food’s favorite punching bag, let me add that their cherry turnovers are top-fucking-notch, and I’m prepared to defend that position unto death. Unto death, I say!

Goddamn brilliant.  

councillor for Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze

Oh, mos def. Dude puts on a terrific show, and he goes through more costume changes than a Vietnamese bride.  I’m talking Amish, Devo, White & Nerdy, the full fat suit from Fat...  And his band has been together for-fricken’-ever, and mesh fantastically in performance.  

The flimsy pieces of crap are Bret Stephens.

Magnificent killer instinct shown by Zhang. I have no idea why Andrade’s reflex after getting rocked by that right hook, and especially after eating those knees, was to stay on her feet, curled forward even after the clinch ended, with her hands held wide, but it did her no favors.