Good.  I'm very thankful that some people are willing to raise their
voices against injustice, stupidity, and national attempts at suicide.

Love your username.

That fucking Byron MacGregor thing.  That got trotted out after 9/11, and I had to laugh when I learned that it was almost 30-years-old by that point.  I mean, whatever it might have meant to people in the early-1970s, it was surely referring to a much different America than we knew by 2001.

Isn't it strange that the voices that seemed to have coalesced into consensus about the wrongness of American involvement in Vietnam have been utterly quiet since 2003?  I mean, George Bush the Elder even said that Vietnam was a mistake in his inaugural address.  But 14 years later, his son went and led us into an…

"I'd rather see you dead in a rice paddy or held captive by the North Vietnamese and tortured for years on end than learn that you had the temerity to refuse to participate in our military involvement in South Vietnam!  Why, I'd have strangled you in your crib if I had known you might grow up to defy your country's…

All my likes for today, @avclub-6422e3b9b5a4d5582042acbf6096cb8d:disqus !

A friend of mine did some history research about the demise of the in loco parentis doctrine at his school (University of Colorado) in the 1960s and 1970s, and he said the funniest thing he came across was a meeting of the Board of Regents (or some similar group) in the early-1960s where one of the members complained…

Signs, signs!  Everywhere, signs!

You're making me want to track down and listen to this record, when I know it can't possibly be as funny as Partridge.

"Mikhail, let me introduce you to my MX missile."

John McGivern looks like what you'd get if you crossed Glenn Beck with Forrest Gump, and out comes a guy who's nice but hopelessly corny.

Using "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in a plea for racial equality hardly seems nonsensical to me, Kyle.  Since it began life as an abolitionist anthem during the Civil War, I would say that it's pretty appropriate.  Overwrought, maybe, but not thematically misplaced.

What @avclub-8eb12b45c6eb5b9675c0976c8ece470c:disqus  said.

I would love to be able to call to mind the entirety of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" right now, so that's my pick for what to pass on to the people of the future.  It's a record of a society that doesn't exist anymore to us, so I don't think it would be any harder for future people with no civilization to…

See, I would think that a society living amid the rubble and ruin of our civilization, having witnessed God-knows-how-many instances of man's cruelty to man would perfectly understand what Picasso was depicting in Guernica, and that work of art might be the one thing* people of the post-civilization future would not…

Short version (and a two-fer, since it's a Reservoir Dogs quote): "You don't know what you're talkin' about," @avclub-4cfd158c4a8894b07b5dd245343609e0:disqus .

Nope.  You're blinded by whatever event ended civilization, and all the paper burned up, and all the electronic devices were rendered unusable by an electromagnetic pulse that somehow didn't reset everyone's hearts.

Why the King James Bible?  Why not a translation that uses contemporary words?

"Dear Die Hard:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."