Depends on the country, and depends on the class and education level of the black and white people you're talking about. Latin American and American conceptions of race are difficult to compare. It's not that race doesn't play a part in people's judgments, but there are plenty of places in Brazil and the Southern Cone…

Having lived in South America most of my life, I see the irony but reserve the right to be pissed off about the whole thing anyway. I'm still American enough for that, I think.

To my knowledge, Minnesota has never elected a governor called "Dick Sweat" or "Butch Otter."

They are not back on top. Their standard of living and life expectancy are miserable, their regular army is a joke, their country is rife with corruption and has few free institutions, and without their petroleum reserves they'd be broke and much, much less powerful. They've capitalized on mistakes made by the West, a…

Holy cow, we agree on something.

This is what annoys me, frankly. How nice that they gave Mr. Ventura editorial control! He's free, I tell you, free!

A friend of mine is distantly related to a male Kelly who married a female Kelly. When you call their house, you have to ask for "Kelly Boy" or "Kelly Girl."

What, no new Wilco record?

I'd agree with you. The book had themes, but it didn't quite have a plot. It was a portrait of the sixties and of Vietnam and of the coming computer age, and it worked on some levels, but if you insist that your books start somewhere and get to somewhere else, it just isn't for you.

Well, thank God for small mercies.

"The Best 4 Non Blondes record"

Say, does anyone have the number for Joel Schumacher's agent?

Please cease your Limanous internet posts.

Is this movie gonna be more or less enjoyable than a Milky Way Dark? Fun size, in case you were wondering.

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Nah. Pearl Jam's been uncool for way longer. A band with zero indie cred in an era in which that mattered that took most of its sonic cues from seventies-era riff rockers? Not a good look in 1993. This isn't an original observation, but hipster underground types that couldn't, in good conscience condemn Nirvana for…

Sure you do.

He reminds me so much of Alex Jones in that picture that I'm finding it creepy.

I also liked the one where you had the high-school athlete calling some team called the Spartans totally gay while a Cambridge lecturer on the other side calmly questioned his premises.

I think they'll just hand the new edition of "Our Dumb Century" to those guys at Fangoria. Or one one of those downmarket "history interest" magazines that really just want to talk about bloody and awful wars.