For what it is and what it's trying to be, Merrymakers is very nearly perfect.

My partner mentors an 11-year-old girl, which in practice means she comes over to our place to hang out and do crafts and stuff when her mom works nights.

I've still somehow managed to hear only one Gotye song: "Heart's a Mess," which was one of those "Play on endless repeat while sobbing over a breakup" tunes for me in 2006 or '07. If the rest of his stuff is in a similar style, I'd probably dig it, but I've just never got around to looking it up.

Hey now, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think.

"[N]one of the Ferengi seem particularly inclined to defend the purity of their beliefs"

"German" isn't a race.

Stuffy, dogmatic and uptight I'll grant you, but thin-skinned? Dude's literally been called a Islamofascist baby-killer who defrauded his way into the Presidency and when he mentions it at all, it's to crack jokes — stilted and unfunny jokes, sure, but he's hardly flying off the handle.

"Stop using dismissive shorthand and start building coherent, persuasive arguments that engage with the actual topic instead of lazy stereotypes" would have been a great thesis for an article.

"Bin Laden had the right idea! He was just an underachiever!"

"Matt Bomer" and "ugly" should never be printed that close together.

Anchor Manner

I went to my 10-year high school reunion last fall and all I could think about was stabbing someone in the neck with a pen.

I've spent some time around Courtney Taylor. He's one of the least pleasant people I've ever met. I don't think his music is bad enough to inspire intense hatred, but his personality sure is.

Wikipedia: "The fallacy of petitio principii, or 'begging the question', is committed 'when a proposition which requires proof is assumed without proof.'"

"White matters because his music is a vehicle for understanding how contemporary dudedom views and relates to women."

@pcloadletter:disqus :(

Maybe you shouldn't get so emotionally invested in what other people enjoy.

I never thought I'd miss a hand so much.

I'll gladly defend MLP:FIM — it's cute and fun and my wife and I like to watch it on Saturdays when we're sleepy and hungover — but there's really no defending "bronies."

There's something like this in the Robert J. Sawyer novel End of an Era.