I deserve that.

Well, when I say that metal ruined rock, I don't mean to say "there was rock, and it was good, and then metal came along, and suddenly rock was bad."  I mean that metal prioritized certain expectations in the rock scene that, over time, had a corrosive effect.  Things like aggressive, hyper-masculine posturing and…

Nu metal, old metal. Fuck…who really wants to sound like any of it?  Metal ruined rock, end of story.

I disagree, @avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus.  The smug smile is a dead giveaway.  See: every Ann Coulter cover ever.

Because really, it just follows.

Honestly, I think blaming the Bush administration is more naive than blaming the institution of the military.  The Obama administration hasn't exactly reigned in its worst aspects, because we still have secret prisons where people are probably getting tortured, we still have drones with the authorization to…

The vapidity signal for me is usually when the author is pictured on the cover.  It's doubly so if they're smiling, and triply so if they are smiling smugly.

Thank you.  I compulsively scanned down to the comment section as soon as I read that, eager to correct it myself.

I remember when the war in Afghanistan started, and it seemed like a real sea change in our foreign policy.  I was fourteen and everything in the immediate vicinity of 9/11 seemed like a sea change, but the start of a big war seemed really unique to me.  I remember wondering if this was going to change America in some…

Lots of people like the Jersey Shore, which is the televised equivalent of a canvas smeared with shit.

There's nothing wrong with painting a pretty picture.  What's offensive about Kinkade is the fact that he made a career out of self-righteously decrying the "elitism" of anyone who ever tried to make interesting art.  That he combined that faux populism with a massive scheme to get rich off of Christianity only adds a…

HBO has a show about Dark Age tits?

Everyone's got their favorites, I guess.  Their terrible, terrible favorites.

…I'd watch it.

You never fail to amuse.

Story of my life.

We're off our game.  We need to get our edge back!

I didn't drink for most of college.  Not until senior year, really.

The problem here is that you are seeing the issues in black and white.  Is being forced to get a boob job as bad as having your tongue cut out?  No.  But the whole boob job incident is a minor aside that doesn't even amount to anything.  There are no pages upon pages of weeping about social pressures on tits: it's…

Yes.  Yes yes yes yes yes.