Yes, slaves were expensive and the proportion of people (white, Indian, or even black!) who actually owned slaves was far lower than, say, the proportion of modern Americans who own cars or houses.  But, many property-owners lost almost everything due to the war and Reconstruction, dislocating many, sending them in…

Hey, if it's anything like "Bang a Gong," I want to hear more.

^This.  Big time.

Why feudalism was a much better system than free market capitalism, II: No upward mobility!

Jeez, we've barely mentioned her weight!  Thanks for the reminder!

"…This year was a successful one for all our daughters.  Little Susy got into Harvard, and started there in the fall.  Helen graduated from Northwestern and landed a job with a media company in Chicago.  And Eva realized her long-held ambition by publishing the Women for Aryan Unity Cookbook.  She is pleased with her…

Stormfront's cooking page is great, but the best white-supremacist recipe I ever got was the KKK's Klan Chowder.

@avclub-07563a3fe3bbe7e3ba84431ad9d055af:disqus , John Paul II found a way to short-circuit that by just throwing too many cases for canonization at them, overloading the system, and not approving any budget increases to hire new staff, authorize overtime, etc.  So the Devil's Advocate office naturally began to slip…

I think you just described one of those "internships."

It's "history" when you study it as things that happened in the past, which still shape the present.

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus , was that a speech O'Brien made before the G8?

I particularly liked "them self."  Bravo.

"Someone needs to defend Paula Deen's right to free speech!"  — Facebook post from Sarah Palin that I expect to see someday.

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus , that ozone layer isn't going to destroy itself!

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus , they're doing some incredible things with machines these days, so automation could one day take over the entire industry.

It's a shanda!

You guys are really milking this line of puns.

I totally want to cut up some carrots, potatoes, and celery into the bathtub while I'm giving my 2-year-old a bath.  No one would get the joke but me, though.

Hey, we're not 100% sure he's not Jewish!

There's probably a good stand-up act, or at least a skit, featuring a character who tells jokes that gratuitously mention people's ethnicities, but it has nothing to do with the punchlines.  Kind of an anti-humor thing.  It'd be challenging, though, because, as you say, ethnic jokes almost always hinge on the joker…