Chomsky did not blame America for the Khmer Rouge. He said America's invasion of Cambodia helped contribute to their ascendancy. Their were other factors as well, the Khmer Rouge leadership being foremost among them. He never said that American was the sole party at fault, and neither did he argue that mass…

Not digging most of this list Psychic was pretty fucking awesome.

This was undoubtedly the year of phony outrage, armchair moralizing, righteous pablum, etc, etc…And every year we move closer to Idiocracy's founding.
Also, can anyone who is musically literate provide evidence that Kanye West is an artist of talent and originality? At least Robin Thicke has good taste in sunglasses.

Half of those lines come from T.I. and Pharell, why this is not noted I leave to professional protesters and doctors of outrage to determine. As for the rest, drawing a straight line from " You're a Good Girl" to 'This is what rapists say" makes me shudder t o think of how a genuinely good song like "Under My Thumb"…

Your phony outrage makes you powerful…

Why is it "offensive." Is Chomsky's suggestion that America's invasion of Camobdia, and its destruction of much of the country's farmland through ceaseless B-52 airstrikes personally offensive to you? What you said is stupid and makes no sense.

I just think that she is fine…

Anything up until 1977.

Finally! An article by the AV Club about music that I actually give a shit about! Whohooo! Fuck grunge, fuck ska, fuck everything alternative, fuck teen angsty pseudo intellectual social commentary bullshit!!!!

Speaking as someone who was a student during the most recent spat of unrest, I am convinced that the occupation of Sproul plaza would have been avoided if the police had responded to the occupy fanfare with an unarmed, non-aggressive, but resolute presence. if they had shown up in dress blues and quietly monitored…

This is coming from someone who was born in the north bay, grew up in Chico, went to school in Berkeley, and has spent an extensive amount of his life traveling everywhere in California north of Santa Barbara, and I have been up and down the rest of the west coast as well:

The Mexican food in Berkeley is fucking awful, especially on Telegraph. "La Burrita?" Cone on now, let's be sensible.

A simple wrong would have been okay…

The relative realism of those props is superior to the CGI of the remake. Those props had an inherent advantage in that they were actually real things that you could touch. Those props were also superior aesthetically to the derivative, instantly dated adobe illustrator crap that was in the remake.
I never thought…

Danzig could crush everyone period.

Is pretentiousness now synonymous with good taste and thoughtful words? I though being pretentious meant you were claiming a level of intellectual and emotional sophistication that you had not earned.

The practical effects from 1982 still produce a visceral reaction, and genuine horror. in viewers, or at least this viewer. But perhaps by "dated," you have something else in mind that does not pertain to artistic effectiveness and achievement.

"I didn't like [the first album] and I never bothered to listen to [the second album]

Early dawning, Sunday Morning…

McCarthy's biggest problem is that all his books betray an insecurity about sexuality, especially female sexuality, that one would expect to find in the ranting of some papist preacher. "Bottom-feeding catfish…" as Butthead would say, "Uh…okay."