Azealia, huh? That's a shame.

The Canadian Decibel ("the tunie") was weak against the American Decibel (USD) at the time.

It's pretty and colorful and well shot and lively and the leads are likable. Its ending could be called unconventional and its got some well-executed industry in-jokes. I'm saying this as a person who pretty much hates musicals, so you can consider all that real praise.

Echo chambers, blah blah blah. Yes, there are dangers to isolating yourself from the opinions of others. But I've also seen communities where people from different political factions could get into some pretty good discussions. Debate's not impossible on the internet.

Uh, I do sort of like your screenname.

Well, I think that most of those jokes are sort of beyond the pale. But that response did make me shudder a bit. You are very good at this.

You make a strong case, and maybe you're right. We really do need more context.

I actually think they're both mixing each other up, frankly. O'Rielly's description of Putin as a "killer" is weird and vague: you could throw that description at any leader whose country's participated in any military action anywhere. Or you could be talking about any random murderer. It's not language that I'd…

Look, I've said this before, but if this isn't what America wanted, they shouldn't have chosen a minor popcultural annoyance to be President of the United States. At least Reagan had left acting pretty far behind by the time he ran.

Sorry, I disagree. As per News of the Weird, the obligatory middle name is "Wayne."

Frankly, I feel that the fact that the serial killer has become almost a stock figure in American movies says a lot about our fear of our neighbors and our general, unspoken assumption that most people would do anything for a thrill. If I was some sort of academic lefty, I'd tie this into a critique of a capitalist…

What if I think it's funny that when my overweight tabby is feeling especially loving, she does a faceplant into the rug and then flips her fat self over to show how happy she is?

He's not smart enough to know anything about that, but yeah. A lot of the original version walked a weird line between macho drag and obvious-but-not-stated homo-eroticism.

touchy, touchy!

Von Mises! That's convince me, a middle-of-the-road American liberal!

A licensed restaurant is hardly the private sphere. This should be pretty obvious, as, about fifty years ago, various protesters were beaten up at various Woolworth's sandwich counters for the right to be served there. And there have been lawsuits brought against gay clubs for banning straights completely.

I don't know if I agree with you there. I think the actions of the students-or-whoever-they-were at Berkley cold be called sort of a "heckler's veto," even if the school seems to have done their part by providing security

As to your second point, I wouldn't be surprised if Mussolini was a fan of the New Deal. Historians have argued for a while that the New Deal was indeed part of a worldwide trend away from classical economics and toward a larger role for the state. The difference — and there is one — is that I think the New Deal made…

Did you know that when a poster uses a phrase like "Did you know…" in a casual message board argument, it's more or less proof that they they spend most of their free time trolling sites they don't agree with?

"For instance, they claim that race doesn't exist."