You talk to Kermit, and ask him what is up with that collar thing around his neck.  I have always wondered.

Everybody has a culture.  But what percentage of Americans with say, English ancestry would say that "their" culture is English culture?  It isn't; their culture is American culture; specifically, the culture of white America.  And it's a culture they share to varying degrees with all other nationalities in this…

I knew there was a way to tie that band to terrorism.

It makes them feel safe.  Nothing like a military industrial complex for a security blanket.

I think it's worth pointing out, first and foremost, that it is at least as meaningful to describe a piece of media as "white" as it is to describe it as "black."  A lot of white people prefer to think that their culture is not really a "culture" as such and can't be described according to racial theories, whereas…

What exactly was he saying in his sleep that gave him away?  I'm picturing him muttering about wearing out yet another pair of boots or something.

The year after I graduated from college, I had a freshman roommate (he wanted to live off campus rather than in the dorms).  When his parents were helping him move into my place, his dad asked me about my partying habits, and proudly proclaimed that his son was "straightedge."

Leave Ted Nugent alone.  Unlike Obama, he knows what it's like to be a persecuted black man.

Keep your government hands off of my publicly-financed speedboat!

Charity?  The slim hope of greater incompetence around us?

Disney is more like Germany; ambitious, and misunderstood!

And now I feel dirty from just reading that.

I suddenly feel an overpowering urge to hunt and kill something, and wear its pelt as a symbol of my status and sexual virility around the cave fire.

But those other "fundamentals" almost go without saying.  The Catholic Church subscribes to all of them, but no one would describe Catholicism as fundamentalist.

Exactly.

…I always liked Tigger.

Not all, certainly, but dispensationalism was an enormous influence on the early movement.  In the past century it's only become stronger.

@hotaugustlunch:disqus, I think Australia may be my new favorite nation.

THIS IS SWISS, MOTHER.

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much.