Agreed, that was excellent. Also, no Mariner's Revenge Song?

True. I finally got around to owning a turntable (vinyl is an expensive fetish for someone with no money) and listening to my dad's old Zappa albums have been one of the highlights so far.

And how much is this free resort weekend?

I can see why all the kids are going crazy for Paul? Who doesn't love a cranky old man who believes that the wrong side won the Civil War and the 19th Century was the height of our country's economy? It's the perfect ironic candidacy.

This has all the makings of a very special episode.

I'm going to transverse the content/comment boundary and say hats off for all the Critic references. and a good nilknarf to you!

All the episodes are in three part-segments on youtube last time I checked.

You nailed it exactly Pretentious Guy. Monocausalism is pretty much at the root of the truly great disasters and failed ideologies. It never fails to amuse me when someone will go about ripping another's worldview to shreds (let's say, over the existence of God), and proving that the other person's overwhelming…

Now THAT'S a complaint!

Yeah, some people here find women funny. A lot of us also think a fear that America will be destroyed by "Islamo-Fascism" pretty laughable too.

Do you ever see clips of Hitchens or Maher debating with some religious nut and just think "how could two people who disagree so completely both be so self-satisfied and utterly wrong?"

The One… Cohesive, hip-hop record of the year..

Yeah, hearing a Wilco version of "You Are Not Alone" would have blown my mind.

Also, how about a Chicago roll call? I'm going Jon Langford night, holler!

Since this is inevitably bound for the National page, I'll just say it now - **something snarky about Dawes**.

We'll call you "Big Andy".

You can't go around calling soemone "Black Andy"!

Raucous Dukakis

Fortunately for this poster, the long-term odds are in his favor.

Radiohead Trivia Time: The name "Radiohead" comes from the band's fondness for performing joint fellatio on old transistor units.