Yeah, I whenever I hear that term, I think of when Ice-T came to speak at my college, really soon after the whole Body Count kerfuffle, and he was kind of on an ad-hoc Free Speech "lecture tour" (it was exactly as hilarious as that sounds). Anyway, he started his talk by saying, "Some people are offended by some…

"they all suddenly decided to acknowledge that the Second Amendment is called the Second because there was another one before it"

I don't want it to get lost on anyone that I characterized her as one of those "people who don't choose their words carefully." Really, if you're on TV, you should be choosing your words very carefully. It's not that hard, especially if you habitually read.

Maybe it was an unsuccessful attempt at one of Archie's patented malapropisms.

I really can't wait to see how they depict this famous event:

I think you're right that this is part of it. I remember when I was a kid vowing I'd never get married because I could never kiss someone in front of all those people! Ewww! You know what happened, though? I grew up, and kissing didn't seem so gross anymore. The older I get, the more I realize that a good half of…

He doesn't have to be that dramatic to get NFL cred. Just a couple of DUIs and a steroid suspension should do the trick. Then people will say, "Hey, he may be gay, but he's alright."

Archie's bigotry was pretty much reactionary and him clutching desperately to what he was accustomed to in a rapidly changing world. It wasn't ideological. He hadn't thought it through carefully. In fact, a lot of the humor in the show was letting Archie explain his point of view, and showing how what he thought…

"Bunker" was metaphorical on All in the Family. The guys of Archie's ilk who survive in 2014, and their ideological descendants, have literal bunkers now. They're well-armed, and fond of toting long guns in public displays at places like Chipotle, where they delight in frightening and intimidating unarmed, normal,…

I think "anti-Semitic against homosexuals" is the preferred term these days, but I'll cut her some slack. It can be hard to keep up, especially all the way down in Dallas.

I'd like to like that twice, for measuring second-hand smoke in quarts!

Man, there is nothing more hilarious in its mismatch between reality and self-perception as the egos of local news personalities.

Actually, just about anyone tangentially connected to the Clin-Ton Administration, for that matter, is a good example of that.

Well, she was probably searching for "bigoted against," but came up with "racist against." Wires get crossed sometimes. And there are just a lot of people who don't choose their words carefully. They tend to say, "you know what I mean" in exasperation a lot.

"throwing her hands up in the air at modernity"

The number of Americans who cannot extricate themselves from really tiresome literal thinking is pretty astounding. I'm tempted to blame it on fundamentalist Christianity, which is infamously more culturally powerful here than elsewhere in the anglophone world. But that's only part of it, because university…

If you live in a city with great mass transit, it will add years to your life by riding it, and those extra years in your dotage will mean more independence, because you can still get around without putting yourself and others at risk because you're no longer able to control a car.

@Levi Williams, this:

What about Bram Stoker's Dracula? There's that super-intense, lovely-horrorshow opening in 1453 Transylvania, with its bleeding-crosses, God-cursing, and beastly howling — then cut to "London, 1898."

Well, methamphetamine is an upper, after all.