The b-side to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", "Pharaohs", is legitimately great. Got included on Groove Armada's "Back To Mine" comp. Or was it Orbital's? Here it is:

"Discount condom"

"Voidance Apron"

Also on the list:

Who the hell goes to these sorts of concerts? Unbearable pseud-ironic hipsters or cranky old assholes who wear polo shirts and aviator wire frames?

Comment/Username synergy deserves half a Xanax, at least.

There was a show called "My Mother the Car" and "Dog with a Blog," so anything's possible, technically.

No, "Old Yellering."

Okay, but are those people so stupid that they'd be likely to put themselves in danger even if he was three counties away? That's the real question.

Bewilderbeest

Honestly, Tom Green did exactly that and it was pretty great, at least for a couple of seasons.

Who the fuck is this Post Malone guy? What kind of name is that? Is he named after a law firm or something?

My little cousins used to be way into Barney. My aunt (by marriage, mind you) isn't really a stellar human being, but I mentioned to her that the kids looked a little weird. She said that they'd all need therapy one day and that the oldest girl clearly was getting breasts and that the costume department was…

The Mob should use this term for guys they whack.

Or maybe three or four cigarettes.

True. But those annoying little speeches that Kyle gives at the end of every second episode tend to boil down to "THESE people are dumb and THOSE people are dumb and we don't know much better and so there's really nothing to be done." This is textbook nihilism and do-nothingism.

Well, that's the 64,000 dollar question. It's difficult to quantify the impact of any cultural artifact on real-deal politics. But I've read enough sharp cultural analysis that I think these discussions are probably worth having. Also: they're fun.

There have always been pretty good reasons to distrust your country's leaders. Skepticism is healthy. But what distinguishes current far-right (and far-left) politics is a pervasive distrust of all government institutions in every context. It's one thing to say that governments are imperfect and another thing to say…

If anything distinguishes the alt-right, it's a pervasive cynicism about the usefulness of traditional politics and liberal (in the larger sense) values as a whole. The movement is full of callow cynics who treat politics as a vehicle which to offend and not a way in which to solve problems. "Both sides are equally…

But that's part of the issue. Roger Ebert pointed this out when he reviewed "Team America: World Police". Comedy without a coherent viewpoint tends to result in either absurdity (the Marx brothers) or cynicism. South Park, in their "we're right, but everyone else is wrong about everything" is squarely on the cynical…