@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus, seems you may be right about the distribution.  All I know is that I have it, and growing up on the west coast I hardly ever met or noticed anyone who didn't.  I associate the distinction mostly with New York or Southern accents, I guess I just assumed the rest of the…

Why are you so much harder on Lupe Fiasco than you are on Barack Obama?

Exactly.  Obama has failed us in many ways, but he has given us results and those results were worth a lot of the past four years of bullshit.

Do you really expect a recording artist to be responsible for the policies of the corporation that owns the corporation that enables him to make professional recordings?

According to dictionary.com, there are two acceptable variant pronunciations: /ˈtraʊmə/ and /ˈtrɔmə/.  However, anyone with the cot/caught merger (that is, most Americans)  will pronounce the second version as /'tɹɑmə/.  That clearly rhymes with /oʊ'bɑmə/.

It doesn't.  It's short for Guadalupe, which is a river in Spain, and is derived from an older Arabic name meaning something like "river with black gravel."

I prefer this version of history.

What a vacuous space you inhabit.

Well said.  There was a great deal of evidence to be analyzed in finding bin Laden, and some of it probably came through torture interrogations.  It's also possible that evidence that was obtained through torture was of some ultimate importance.

I haven't seen it yet, and I've been kind of uneasy about the prospect of seeing it, because I suspected as much. 

There are some disturbing implications at work here…

If I were evil, I'd vote for him!

He can't go to prison!  I like him!

"Oh, expletive deleted…"

"Oh, expletive deleted…"

Noel is a typically male name, so your "forgetting" that he is a man really seems to mean that you forgot to check who wrote the article before you started making assumptions about the kind of person who would be concerned with how their child was represented in popular culture.

Well, except porn.

Well, except porn.

I remember that interview.  Those were good times.

I remember that interview.  Those were good times.