Hitch did the same throughout his career, I'm sure he'd expect no less.

Mike Love sees no problem with it.

The word on Mike Love has always been that he's somewhat anti-drug.  But watching that speech, you can only conclude he's stoned out of his mind.

Nice Dawes connection at the end.

I'd go see them live if Dennis were reanimated with black magic. 

I heard the sound, and I said to myself, "please tell me that's some kid from the touring band filling in the gaps."  And then I saw Brian's lips moving with it, and I cried a little inside.

This notion that Sloop John B is a bad song confuses me deeply.  It has a tremendous bassline, a tremendous vocal arrangement, and that a capella section before the third verse is perpetually stunning.  I'll grant it has nothing to do with the rest of the album, but it's a worthy production.

Neither did the name limit the Beach Boys from singing about non-beach material.

Hey, you heard him.  He has a go at White Christmas sometimes.  That's some old school shit.

I am a big enough nerd to give you a like for that.

Considering the massive amounts of wealth enjoyed by the Beatles for many many years, I don't think they've been shorted.

Indeed.  I'm not saying I wish him dead, I just wish people would STAY dead, you know?

Clearly the sort of man we need now.

People in the South are emotionally invested in believing that, while it's a golly-gee wonderful thing that slavery ended and everyone's equal now, Lincoln and his northern friends were absolute assholes to make them end it.

I feel obligated to point out that FDR was dead by the time of the first A-bomb test.

I'm very pleased with the fact that I had no idea this movie even existed until I saw that David Cross article.  Apparently the all-out onslaught of advertising wasn't considered necessary this time.

Orwell had too much faith in humanity for that.

They probably thought they were getting some moralizing Christian bait that they could put some mouse ears on.

How would he know if they didn't look "affected?"  I bet other people just told him that out of pity.

I think he's expressing regret that women wear clothes.  But he could also be gibbering like a fool.