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Say what you will about Obama, but the man knows how to own someone in a way that's fucking effortlessly cool without coming across as mean-spirited. I didn't watch that debate, but I can hear his cadence and imagine that slightly-self-satisfied look of, "That's right, dumbass."

Trump is a master bullshitter.

Was The Donald on drugs? Because he kinda seemed like it.

Awesome. The Jean-Claude Van Johnson pilot is damn funny, especially JCVD starring in the gritty reboot of a certain classic American novel.

My dad still wears a "Don't Make Me Use My Spank Ray" Space Ghost shirt while doing yardwork and stuff. It's a gloriously bizarre show, especially if you first knew Space Ghost through the original HB cartoon.

The Arnold Palmer is the flagship beverage of every Dollar Tree and 99 Cent Only Store I've been to. Always have cases and cases of those huge bottles.

Yep, that's what we called it in California.

Old-timey detective slang is the best. "Take a look at that gunsel packing a Chicago typewriter over there!"

MacGruber is dumb as fuck, but I laughed my ass off.

Yeah, the drudgery and blandness are key. Most other workplace films I've seen involve some zany slapstick plot, obvious villains (a la Scrooge), or shadowy conspiracy.

I watched Office Space for the first time in 10 years.

Holy shit, I forgot about that guy. Would he be a Web 1.0 equivalent of a one-hit wonder?

Counterpoint: while modern civilization has many benefits, it has nonetheless allowed far too many people like Tucker Max to feed themselves and their families by being Tucker Maxes.

How about that theme from the original? Holy shit is it good. Once I drove through the Utah desert with it on repeat for about 30 minutes — never got old, I just had to stop and take a leak.

Pop-Pop gets an Emmy?

You're fired.

My uncle of all people loaned me the DVD. He's one of those guys who's watched maybe 10 movies, ever, and three of them star John Wayne, but for some reason he loves Idiocracy and still quotes it.

That's flat-out wrong. Colonial and early-republic America was one of the most literate societies in history at that point. We could learn a thing or two from them about education, literacy, and a culture where the written word flourished across a broad spectrum of society — all using fairly limited resources by our

One of my favorite moments from the show. Zevon has this brief look of seething rage before starting the song.

LOL. That's probably the best one-line summary of Sunny and the Gang.