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Not the only bad thing; just the worst thing.

It would be better if she called it a "car-hold."

I think distilling is a whole different animal, and therefore the laws regulating it are much stricter. As I understand it, brewing is different from distilling in two fundamental ways: first, beer and wine don't carry the same risk of methanol poisoning; and second, beer and wine brewing don't involve a heat source

He should be remembered for his run for the presidency after his one term, when he ran on a disgustingly anti-immigrant platform.

I have a hard time with those labels, too, because they're applied so broadly these days as to be meaningless. I have a cousin who is severely developmentally disabled — he understands a few dozen ideas and can speak maybe a couple of dozen words with purpose (e.g., "thirsty!"), but mostly just mumbles as he rocks in

Oh, it's just like Big Journalism to heap praise on yet another white man in late night!

Something, something, men with skinny arms…

Isn't that what we're talking about?

Hah! Dothraki men don't ask to have sex.

You can take the Skywalker boys out of Tatooine, but you can't take Tatooine out of the Skywalker boys. Mostly because that sand gets in everywhere, and once it's in, it stays in.

I'm intrigued by the idea that people's standard of living actually improved under the Empire, and has completely gone to shit since Luke Skywalker took over. It turns out that the stark economics of moisture farming (which Luke didn't even really study too closely) aren't good preparation for the immense

I only care about talking dogs, near the golf course or not.

In France, they are known as "les gens de poubelle"; in Germany, "Gülle riechende Menschen."

Especially Black Smithers!

There are lots of demonstrable similarities between the US and Australia, and I find them fascinating. When traveling in Europe, I always found the Aussies to be the English-speakers I got along best with (even better than my fellow Americans, on the whole). But then there are the inescapable differences, too, which

I agree with everything you've said here.

"Star Wars V. Stiviano."

Toronto: The New Orleans of Canada, Apparently.

When I was in Rome, I was walking through a church and the priest greeted me and we chatted as well as we could, since I don't speak Italian, but know a few phrases. He asked if I was an American, and I said yes. He said, "Me too! I'm from Columbia!"

The United States is a Cubist painting of faces from all over the world. Look at people from different angles, and you can see different ancestries.