Ryan should be removed entirely. He's at least three-fold ineligible for a) policy wonkishness; b) running marathons and c) lying about his bodyfat %.

Seriously, who drives an M3 except for [potentially indefensible generalization redacted]?

If the guy were coveting a Boxster, I'd join you in whacking him.

"That's taken out of my colleagues mouth, he is literally bummed that he can only buy a brand new 70k BMW M3 instead of the new 911 he wanted. I was like, dude, I killed for this job, and here you are complaining. I want to murder you slowly."

Coveting a 911 aloud is mildly irritating.

As bands go, Bauhaus were wise to reference an architectural style that the Nazis disliked.

Haha.... glad I asked. The Shoney's reference makes it all too clear!

I don't get the implication of "buffet" as a slam - what am I missing?

I was sticking to your chosen logic: if 450K imported slaves are enough to taint the antebellum South all the way to the present day, as you argue, then surely one million slaves has the same effect for the Barbary Coast?

Because logic and internal consistency are useful concepts in discourse? And have been deemed as such for several millenia?

You nitwit - the Vikings were Scandinavian... they raided elsewhere, as one does.

You'll be missed. Happy landings.

He's a rage-bot... put together by a programming team at 4chan as a joke.

There was a lengthy LA discussion here a month or so back. It's awfully arbitrary to deem some historical references problematic (or romanticizing) but not others.

If LA's lyrics indeed romanticize the era, I'd expect them to get flak for it. Don't know the band hardly at all, but I don't get the impression that's the case at all.

Yeah... 100-ft Confederate flags as stage backdrops made for an interesting look.

Yup. I suspect there's some sneaky dog-whistle appeal w/the name for some of their fans... but for anyone that remembers the old Skynyrd days, things used to be soooo much more extreme and overtly regressive.

It'd be "emulating" if the band went around dressed up as a plantation.

Did Serena also apologize to the journalist she tried to throw under the bus with her original weasel-apology?

Those are half-measures.