"A man who is born to hang need not fear drowning."

Hey, I've got some Buzzfeed quiz results that prove I'm sexy, open-minded, and should live in London!

Well, when gay marriage is legal everywhere, prostitution is legal and regulated, and marijuana is decriminalized and heavily taxed in every jurisdiction, then I'll begin to consider that the US has caught up with northern Europe in terms of individual freedoms. Then we should probably talk about social and economic…

Yep. No one hates us (the United States) because of our freedoms. I saw a comedian once who pointed out that if al Qaeda really hated free societies so much that they wanted to destroy them, then the Netherlands and Scandinavia would be nothing but barren wastes of glow-in-the-dark-for-a-million-years radioactive…

Totally looks like some producer insisted, "We gotta work in that Rosy the Riveter that the ladies like so much."

Hey, this is America, you pinko! We're not concerned with getting things done right; we're concerned with getting things done cheaply! That's the American way (since about 1970).

"oddly cheery war posters"
They're called propaganda.

Of course you say that, but with your avatar, I don't think yours is completely impartial testimony!

"its emptiness a mirror for Batman’s weary soul"

From what I've gathered since that student shot up that college town in California a few weeks ago, men are never, ever, ever supposed to describe themselves as nice guys. It's just not an acceptable term for males to use anymore. Get used to it.

"Cheryl, do you respect wood?"

I guess I had in mind that some kangaroos (probably the big ones you mention) are like deer here in America: so numerous that they regularly get hit by cars when they try to cross the roads.

They say that spicy food acts as an appetite depressor, and that probably explains why people in places where the food is so delicious but also so mind-alteringly spicy are thin: they simply can't eat very much of it.

True story: my college dining hall was really pretty good. Sure, it wasn't like home cooking, but for a place that fed thousands of hungry students all day, they did really well. They even brought out some exotic stuff from time to time, like frogs legs and buffalo steaks (I think you had to pay an extra $1 for…

@avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus is on to something with the bitterness of the coffee. As I'm sure you know, bitterness is one of the four (or five, if you count umami — I submit that what you're describing is itself umami, and that umami seems to me to be a combination of tastes into a composite…

I couldn't figure out what ATK stood for. All I could think of was the BTK serial killer out of Wichita. "Science Desk" finally clued me in that it was America's Test Kitchen. Now I can't escape the feeling that Christopher Kimball has abducted people, tortured them (with arugula, turmeric, and kale), and then kebob…

I guess you're right. I thought the test she meant was that, when someone is asked to name their favorite marsupial, they would be judged based on which one they picked. I had no idea it actually meant, "We'll see who knows what the word 'marsupial' means." Because who doesn't know what a marsupial is? That's the…

That sounds delicious. Worthy of being a last meal!

One of the sources of great pleasure for me while traveling in eastern Europe was that some of the major cities had Irish pubs, so I could occasionally get a respite and speak with other native-English speakers. There was one in Bratislava that served the whole Irish fry-up breakfast all day on weekends. I ended up…

I like this guy. He's very quick and has a bit of a dark edge to him. I like that. He had me at the sleeping pills crack: "Just take one and see how it goes." I also LOL'd at his Verne Troyner thing, about being an old person who's like a little kid.