Hmm. My prom 'date' backed out at the last minute so he could ask another girl (since I wasn't going to the after-party. I…wasn't very cool in highschool). The whole grade found out about it, though, and gave him shit for it - the other girl refused to go with him, his friends kicked him out of the limo and he had to…

Agreed. Sometimes the goal of a social movement is simply to change the conversation - and in that attempt, Occupy was very successful. I didn't mean to imply that they weren't; simply that the original tactics (encampment, sit-ins) were no longer being used. What's replaced them (Rolling Jubilee, etc.) is both…

I'm not ready yet to completely write off Occupy. Perhaps it's last iteration is kaput - but I'm of the opinion that subversive politics will bleed out from the cracks (growing bigger all the time) in the system. I know it sounds optimistic (and truth be told, I don't necessarily think that the Big, Romantic…

Hah! No way, man - I'm Canadian, so the US gov't can't listen to *my* phone conversations. Nope, no worries for me. In safe old Canada.

Thanks for the responses George_Liquor and Fattypants McGee. I'm not American, and while I try to keep up with the up-and-up, it's easy to get a bit lost.

Blerg. BDDD, my timing on this comment was hopelessly messed up, and I clearly got the responses in this thread mixed up. I tried to fix it but it just doesn't make sense anymore (took too long to respond, read too quickly, etc.)

Questions for you (genuine and snark-free): the NSA spying programs - was that an Obama initiative or something that has been happening (at some level) for years in the US gov't? Also, why (how?) would congress sue Obama? Inter-branch lawsuit?

Thank you! I'm so sick of the "everyone is at fault" rhetoric. Let's call a spade a spade.

Okay but here's the thing about her, though: I don't care one way or another that she seems to have, as my mother would say, lost the key to her brain and begun twerking on everything in sight. If she decided that this is a truer expression of 'who she really is', good for her.

You know, speaking of throwing around racial slurs - even though I don't comment often I do lurk quite a bit (erm, sorry if that's weird) and @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , for some bizarre reason I thought you were Black (like me!) - even during the whole ill-chosen-gimmick-account fiasco.

Hold on, hold on - Esso gas up here (Canada) is the same things as Exxon??

Dirk: it's not always the words themselves, independently, that cause the problem. Sometimes (and I'd argue this was the case in your post), it's the way you arrange them.

No. That's too much, David. And in all the wrong places.

@avclub-577bf73a564d1fd9878f3c70f931a066:disqus : I can deal with fries and cheese - it's the gravy that I don't like. Don't worry, we'll be together in our anonymity.

Yep. There are restaurants dedicated entirely to poutine and they come up with some crazy recipes (and I'm not even in Quebec). It's not a cliché to say that poutine is super popular here.

Sigh. It's my secret shame. Although I accidentally spilled the beans this weekend in a semi-drunken confession. I was duly chastised for not partaking in the butter chicken (yep) poutine.

Be ashamed! Be very ashamed!

Jean Paul Galltier.

Dude. That was way harsh.

ThisIsNot…You sound dangerously close to defending Taylor "you-like-me-you-really-like-me!" Swift in your screed. Perhaps another tack would be more effective.