I haven't seen much criticism thrown at the south, to be honest, but I don't think there should be. Regional fingerprinting just causes resentment. Nearly half of Ohio voted for Clinton. There is a lot of support for liberal ideas there, just as there is nearly everywhere in the country. Admittedly, not enough to…

There is an American food section in the grocery store where I shop in Korea. It is mostly filled with condiments and candy. It alternately saddens and annoys me, because every time I see it, I think, "Americans don't eat like that. We eat real food, not just garbage!"
Then when I visit America, I remember that we do,…

It annoys me that this gets pinned on the Rust Belt/the Midwest. Every major city in those regions went blue. Huge swathes of rural California went red. This isn't coast vs. "flyover;" it's rural/suburban vs. urban.

There are few things that can lift my spirits more than listening to 70s dance or funk. This lady brought people joy, and will be missed.

The person you met was probably a moron; there is no rivalry between New Yorkers and Clevelanders. What Clevelanders do have, however, is a deep resentment of being looked down on, being condescended toward, and, for decades, being the butt of jokes.

Hope you cleaned up after yourself.

That sort of makes sense to me. I would imagine that the idea is the passenger might be perusing the magazine on the plane, a public space where some poor devout soul in transit to the toilet might inadvertently catch a glimpse of bare lady shoulder in the magazine. It's to protect others from your filth.

My assumption is that some people approach pizza toppings like they would soup stock—just throw whatever old junk you have in the fridge in and boil it down/throw it on top of the cheese.

You've just filled the entire state of Pennsylvania with rage.

This. The folks north of Bismark got all NIMBY, so the pipeline was rerouted. (source: http://bismarcktribune.com/…

Yeah, I understand that. There's the optimistic part of me, though, that doing my part to contribute to a majority minority nation might help expedite the process of making the country better. Then again, my babies would be half white, half-Asian, so they are less likely to have to deal with being shot by cops and…

I get that it was specifically depicting a Japanese ad, not a generic "Asian" ad. I think I've just noted a lot of clumsiness towards Asians in shows that I otherwise like (Kimmy Schmidt and… I dunno. I don't like many shows).

Yeah, I felt the same way about the ramen ad. It seemed tone-deaf to me. Yet the next episode has a more nuanced approach to race. Maybe mocking Asians doesn't scan as racist to anyone but me?

I always thought repressed memories were twaddle, but reading this forced me to recall a horrible 2002 bus trip across France wherein a beanie-wearing American uni student was (evidentally) listening to this song on repeat on his Discman and mournfully wailing the chorus aloud each time it came round.
Jesus, that was…

Me, I'm all about the Rowlf the Dog and John Denver version.
No, seriously. I think it's the simplicity of the piano accompaniment. Either that or the fact that it was the only Christmas album we had—on 8-track!—when I was a kid.

I did not know of this. But he seems so affable!

Ringo Starr. He gets all the perks of being a Beatle, but without having to deal with the downsides of genius.

Because I saw Bob from Sesame Street sing it live at the Brooklyn Public Library and it pretty much made my life, I choose "Sing."
PS I was thirty when this happened.

This show was amazing and led me to the comics. It was the only series I followed as a teen because other comics (and, often) comic book shops always seemed to be less than welcoming to those of us with vaginas.

If you think Watterson is preachy, avoid Frazz.