FUCKING STOP IT, YOU ASSHOLES.
I want to PUNCH THESE PEOPLE IN THE THROAT for this unclever, unfunny bullshit.

Fuck you, Ratner.
What the hell is wrong with you?

It's like how every review for Suede's album Head Music mentioned the deathless couplet "She live in a house/She stupid as a mouse." How could you possibly NOT bring that up?

Fire, Desire, and/or Liar. C'mon.

I would argue that you can't separate "aesthetics" from sociopolitical questions. The latter inevitably inform the former. That's a whole 'nother argument, though.

Point #2 is a good one (didn't Terry Eagleton make a similar argument?). People just naturally assume that English is naturally "easier;" ergo, it should automatically be instantly accessible.

Alas, it's true. I actually got my parents to buy it for me based on the sweet commercial. It proved to be most underwhelming.

As I've said, I totally agree that academia is, to a large extent, a big ol' circle-jerk with no value for anyone outside the academy. You HAVE to write papers to advance professionally, which obviously does encourage writing for the sake of writing without have anything really new to offer—and for, oh, ninety…

As an academic, I will not argue that a lot of academic writing is not extremely bad. That's not a winning argument. I will, however, also note that there IS such a thing as writing that's complicated because the IDEAS are complicated—and there's a tendency (understandable, but still confused) to conflate the two.

Some academic criticism is bad, of course, but this comment strikes me more as vague, generalized theory-phobia than anything else. Otherwise, it wouldn't equate people saying that gays in hell makes Dante bad (which isn't a remotely scholarly critique) with post-colonial readings of Conrad (which are)—and what…

"The Beatles are also mocked in "The Crying of Lot 49.""

How exactly are we defining "New Romantic?" here. The first bands I think of when I hear the phrase are Visage and Ultravox. I don't think of Roxy Music at ALL.

AGREED. I suppose this was MARGINALLY clever the first time, but it played itself out more or less instantly and now it needs to stop.

Yeah, it really kinda pissed me off the way the writers so stacked the deck so heavily against Karen. I mean, you KNEW that that was the way it had been preordained, and so that was the way it was gonna BE, dammit, but it still sucked. A big part of the reason I stopped watching The Office is that Jim and Pam just…

Sure, it's like The Office in some ways, but two things: 1) People LIKE The Office; 2) P&R right now is HEAD AND SHOULDERS above The Office now (I want to say The Office EVER, but I haven't seen the earlier seasons in a long time, and my perspective may be skewed). Seriously, you non-P&R-watching, Office-loving…

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It was sort of surprising at the end of the South Park episode with Robert Smith where Stan (or possibly Kyle) shouts "Disintegration is the best album ever!" Wow—Parker and Stone unironically liking something that could easily get them labeled uncool? THAT goes against everything those assholes stand for.

So this isn't the long-awaited Phoenix Wright movie?
Pffft—what a letdown.

Poop.
Heh heh.

"Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
I had never heard this song before, and I must say, I find it virulently catchy. Cheers.

No, I'm afraid people like you are wrong. Also, dumb. With bad senses of humor. Ultimately, I think you should seriously consider killing yourselves.