Considering that Italy's national pastime involves going to theaters in order to be able to shout that at the people on stage, I can't say that I'm surprised. (There was a performance of Aida at La Scala a few years back — speaking of Milan — in which someone in the audience started shouting about how awful the cast…

Just the same old few, eh?

But they didn't bathe as often.

Ah! Swede mystery of life, at last I've found thee. . .
For 'tis love and love alone the world is seeking. . .

You really aced it with that comment.

"And then Harding, showing the kind of class that Richard Nixon can only dream about, died." — Dave Barry

But they will both agree on what the term "fake news" means, as you apparently are unaware that you just conceded.

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We have great ducklings on our side of the street. The best ducklings.

I believe that most people understand the term "fake news" to mean "lies that are being presented as news."

All together now:

It means that we are in fact inside the Matrix, and all of my prior comments about how little sense any of it made appear to have been wrong.

What you describe is actually (AFAIK) a fairly well-known phenomenon: if X feels that he is getting less than he deserves, he will gladly give up some of what he has if by doing so he can ensure that Y will not get more than X thinks that Y deserves.

Is "Jewish" an ethnicity?

If you claim to be white, then you are proud of the crimes perpetrated in the name of whiteness.

Kind of amusing that you define people as good or evil based on their ethnicity, while I do not — at least not consciously (you can ask my African-American college roommate and the Muslim with whom I shared an office when I was a post-doc to confirm that I'm not fantasizing about not treating people differently based…

It's been done at least once before, in 1994's Threesome, a movie that might have been much better if the filmmakers had not gone to such great lengths to avoid exploring the possibility that any of the characters might actually have been bisexual.

The "Did any of the people who wrote this movie about getting into college ever actually attend college" conundrum goes back at least to Risky Business, in which somebody forgot to tell the screenwriters that SAT scores always end in zero.

Hey, it worked for Christy Mathewson.

Remember that Peanuts movie in which Charlie Brown's class is on a field trip to an art museum, he somehow ends up in a supermarket, and then his essay about his trip gets an "A" because the teacher found his comparisons of modern art to things like stacks of canned goods to be witty and amusing? It's kind of like…