@Parlet—don't mean to imply that Boomers are not responsible for their suckiness—talk about a bunch of self important douchebags—just mean tha i tire of the nonstop adulation for the old folks, usually BY the douchebags. I mean, have you LISTENED to some of this tripe?

I think i need to stop reading this website for a while, because these threads are actually starting to make sense to me.

I personally don't object to the WWI generation per se—most of the vets that I take care of from WWII are awesome—I do object to the near deification that has gone on in popular media(I'm looking at YOU, Tom Brokaw) without allowing recognition of their fallibility. Yeah, they did a lot of awesome stuff. But they…

Yeah
I vote Yeah!! for Burl of this thread.

It's gotta be the shoes
Spike is smart and makes beautiful movies. He's also unbelievably self righteous and seems to overestimate his own importance. Does anyone else remember what a hash he made of a genuinely great book with Malcolm X?

@lexicondevil: word.

One more thing
I do agree that it's good that the AV club is giving him an outlet and treating him with respect. He was a great man once.

Ralph Nader
It is a sad testament to the disaster of the past eight years that Ralph Nader, who with his tireless advocacy for consumer safety (seatbelts, anyone?) has probably saved more lives than any other American, living or dead, has USED UP so much of the goodwill that that advocacy has engendered. Furthermore,…

NERD ALERT
Polar bears and penguins do not coexist. Penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere exclusively, while Polar bears are purely arctic critters.

So, Goop is Norwegian for Santorum?