This could be the saddest example of Rule 34 ever, Philo.

How dare you be reasonable and rational when I'm ranting?

On a board about jokes and opinions, I have to prove my right to an opinion. Got it. Do I have to prove my right to a joke, too?

I understand, JEng. You didn't come off as being dismissive of the Garner case. It's apparently just a completely different thing. I live in DC (sort of; my town straddles DC and Maryland. I'm on the Maryland side, really). Lack of familiarity, ethnic majorities that are too large and/or rich, and people who…

AGGGGGGGHHHHHH…. Language evolves, I understand… mistakes become correct ("err" is now pronounced "air" instead of "urr," "hopefully" isn't necessarily an abverb, a "factoid" is now a little tidbit of information instead of an earlier version of truthiness (originally, according to Wikipedia 'a false or spurious…

Beautifully done. I like how you don't claim to have all the answers but have a lot of good questions. That's what life really is: asking good questions.

Let's find out what comes back from the student union tomorrow.

Oh, a homogeneous population. See what I did there? …. glurg..

Apparently what? It's okay, I'll probably back down because I'm one who tends to say, "oh, yeah zhe has a point."

Sweet Jesus, I hate Richard Dawkins. I have no patience for fundamentalism, not fundie Christians, Muslims, or Atheists. They refuse to be happy until they've bullied everyone into agreeing with their positions. Faith is not Science; Science is not Faith. The Farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends. https://www.you…

With Godwin, God wins.

I don't really have enough information to discuss this; I only have that one link you posted and my sense of things from that one piece. It sounds like there's a very long and very complex back story, filled with organized crime, corruption, racism and an amazing amount of complicated stuff. So I'm going to bail on…

Jane Krakowski was not the lead. Give me a joke where the Native actors work in the Pinot Noir episode, the Kimmy's kid sister in New York episode, or the trial episode arc. Anything?

Tom Hanks needs to give back his Oscar and Jim Parsons and Neil Patrick Harris are just fucked.

She was trying to pass, and succeeding after much effort at being as white as possible. Much as in Imitation of Life (1959), it made perfect sense for that character to be played by a white actress. Plus, come on… Jane Krakowski.

Two native American characters who manage to give their own daughter a serious amount of shit over her choice, while still loving her anyway. "Passing" isn't new, and isn't new subject matter for movies, but I don't recall seeing it addressed in a comedy. I think the joke was great and was presented well, ESPECIALLY…

That's a Federal Case and it's always judge roulette in District courts. Working from memory, there are 11 of them in the country, plus a few specialized Federal Courts (Court of Veterans Appeals, Court of International Trade, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, FISA). That having been said, the judge…

If you want to assert something, go ahead, but it's not my responsibility to go prove your assertion for you.

The eclecticism of what was popular and successful is unmatched.

I know a lot of young people. I remember a couple of years ago, my then 12 year old stepdaughter and her friends talking at length about how great the Beatles are. She may not be a hipster at 14, now, but being a hipster is just lazy contrarianism. "Oh, I only listen to music from the New Guinea rainforest; it's…