so your problem is with the now obsolete sexual mores of the time, not the song. I don’t have an issue with that, as such. but its important to aim righteous indignation at the right target. the song isn’t about supporting it, its about bucking it.

so since that oppressive system is mostly defeated now, why not…

The stigma that still applies today in some areas of America that for a single girl to spend the night with someone is scandalous and inappropriate? People were still sleeping in seperate beds in the movies in the 40s — America wasn't exactly a bastion of sexual enlightenment.

How is “a woman afraid of what society thinks eventually overcomes that fear and does what she wants” not an improvement over “a man roofies and rapes a woman who just wants to get home to her family”?

Then get off of Foxtrot Alpha.

Noted. Don’t click on political articles in the future. Everybody wins.

Dear Santa,

private debt collectors will now go after people for unpaid taxes,

Really, he looks like Michael Cera 45 years from now.

You seem to have me mistaken with someone else. I don’t see how your non-sequitur has any relevance here.

Except that, no, that’s not actually the case at all.

Well considering were looking at $100 Billion out here in CA for a kinda-sorta fast rail system, I’m not sure $300 Billion spread out through the rest of the country is gunna do all that much. But hey at least its something!

Truly, this may go down as one of life’s great unsolved mysteries. I’ve tried everything. Even searched for clues in The Guardian’s headline.

Wenger [singing]: “I shot the sheriff...?!”[Points to Özil]

So Arsene Wenger is a man in his 60’s who likes music that was popular when he was in his 20’s and 30’s?

WHO COULD IT POSSIBLY BE?!

Are you really trying to argue Batou’s case that it’s stupid of her to choose a less physically strong model?

Ah, maybe metaphor. I’ll leave.

The real hero is the guy who managed to film the crash in landscape mode.