Being an American who traveled around Canada a bit during those grim Bush years (and saw that was rather difficult for me to immigrate there, even with national relatives), there indeed was a certain smugness that towards Americans that gradually transformed into sympathy around 2007.  I think a film like Sicko,…

It's unfortunate that there are very few things these days that will literally have me rolling on the floor laughing, gasping for air because I'm in hysterics.  I remember this episode as a kid did just that, to the point where I think I remember laughing through the commercials.

It's unfortunate that there are very few things these days that will literally have me rolling on the floor laughing, gasping for air because I'm in hysterics.  I remember this episode as a kid did just that, to the point where I think I remember laughing through the commercials.

Apart of us all, apart of us all, apart of us all!

Apart of us all, apart of us all, apart of us all!

I've saw Memento a couple of times a decade ago and loved it, but haven't watched it since because I heard a rumor (somewhere) that it diminishes greatly with repeat viewings. Did anyone have this experience?

I've saw Memento a couple of times a decade ago and loved it, but haven't watched it since because I heard a rumor (somewhere) that it diminishes greatly with repeat viewings. Did anyone have this experience?

All the Presidents Men:  Use the CIA to sabotage Democratic candidates who might stand a chance to defeat Nixon in 1972; (misinfo, spreading rumors of affairs, blackmail, possibly lace Muskie's drink with LSD so he melts down on live TV) Illegally wiretap, control slush fund for bribery… gets away scot-free by…

All the Presidents Men:  Use the CIA to sabotage Democratic candidates who might stand a chance to defeat Nixon in 1972; (misinfo, spreading rumors of affairs, blackmail, possibly lace Muskie's drink with LSD so he melts down on live TV) Illegally wiretap, control slush fund for bribery… gets away scot-free by…

Can't believe you are the only one on this board who got that joke.

Can't believe you are the only one on this board who got that joke.

I've actually been to a Free Pussy Riot rally in San Francisco.  Not as Smug as some may think, but it certainly needed more blaring of punk outside Russian Orthodox churches

I've actually been to a Free Pussy Riot rally in San Francisco.  Not as Smug as some may think, but it certainly needed more blaring of punk outside Russian Orthodox churches

Food stamps aren't the only part of a social safety net.  The Civil Rights generation abandoned it's young people by rolling over and letting the Drug War under Nixon ramp up incarceration to the point where there are more black people in jail than at the height of Slavery.  The Civil Rights "leaders" have had the…

Food stamps aren't the only part of a social safety net.  The Civil Rights generation abandoned it's young people by rolling over and letting the Drug War under Nixon ramp up incarceration to the point where there are more black people in jail than at the height of Slavery.  The Civil Rights "leaders" have had the…

By not flooding it with cheap crack (smack in the 60s/early 70s) in the first place?  Now that it's there… well legalize it: cuz as horrible as a drug that crack is, racist police enforcing and a for-profit-prison industrial complex is worse.  Use money not wasted on a bloated police/lawyer/prison budget on rehab…

By not flooding it with cheap crack (smack in the 60s/early 70s) in the first place?  Now that it's there… well legalize it: cuz as horrible as a drug that crack is, racist police enforcing and a for-profit-prison industrial complex is worse.  Use money not wasted on a bloated police/lawyer/prison budget on rehab…

Sure, gun control.  How about Reaganomics gutting the social safety net of inner-cities while the CIA flooded the ghetto with crack?  Maybe address those issues first?

Sure, gun control.  How about Reaganomics gutting the social safety net of inner-cities while the CIA flooded the ghetto with crack?  Maybe address those issues first?

Yup, that was about the moment for my mom as well.