All Obama has to do is answer a simple question: What did he know and when did he sacrifice the goats to Allah praying for America's destruction?

It is better to rag on your teenage son's wet dreams in this life than to have Satan do it in the next.

Because Andrew Mellon didn't boorishly demand to see Roosevelt's birth certificate.

We didn't have any teen movies where blonde people were evil and shallow…until YOU KNOW WHO got elected.

The premise is clearly a latent metaphor for the theoretical do-over on the so-called War on Terror that the American voters gave Obama and his fumbling of that do-over by making the same mistakes as his predecessor. Only when we take our violent rage from 9/11 (ejaculate) and channel it in a positive direction (the…

That's a fair enough response. I just think it's overstating the case to say that widely felt alienation and rage have disappeared from popular music since Soundgarden. If you're saying that nobody has done it nearly as well while enjoying the same level of success, I might agree.

Not unless you have the intermediary step of investing the coins in productive activity and thereby further the accumulation of coins without merely collecting them. Otherwise it would be mercantilism, and we'd be savages.

I'm sympathetic to this argument, but I think you'd have a hard time explaining why Soundgarden is a legitimate expression of the anger and disconnect of the masses, and Linkin Park isn't.

What a stunning, unique and timely insight.

I agree, I particularly found fault with Marah's: "there is this sort of vague masculine threat implied in their music."

I agree, but that's not really saying a whole lot.

Spoonman is one of the few songs that totally validates the band's critics. Dumb, repetitive, and meaningless.

The irony is tough to gauge for a lot of people, because there's almost a complete disconnect between the music and the lyrics. Sometimes, you don't know which to believe.

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This is the episode where I realized, simultaneously, that Shane is just as compelling a character as Vic and Goggins is just as compelling an actor as Chikhlis.

That's an excellent call-forward to Chasing Ghosts. It's almost unbelievable in retrospect that Vic still has yet to realize fully the monster he's created. Perhaps he misreads Shane's desperation here as true contrition. Vic, for all his warped morality, is capable of contrition when he thinks he's messed up. …

It's actually a brilliant business model. Build a readership with legitimately good content and then slowly replace it with cheaper, z-grade hackery.

True, but at least it used Sabermetrics effectively. Putting elements of other successful shows/movies in a blender doesn't always work (see:Ray Donovan).

Keep in mind, Grantland was founded by a guy who ragged nonstop on The Departed for the final shot of the rat, and then turned around and claimed that the best movie of the 2000's was Almost Famous. The apple doesn't fall far from the Simmons.

The ideal age to enjoy Sophtware Slump is one where you are juvenile enough to emit Butthead-style guffaws upon hearing the line "We assembled Jed in the kitchen", but college-pretentious enough to think "whoa man, technology might create as many problems as it solves!" is a profound idea.