Yay, fellow Central and Eastern European Studies major!

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus And 20 pounds lighter.

Fortunately, they hate the Chinese even more, so we're all squared up.

Owen Wilson's immediate look of childlike wonder always kills me.

@avclub-ca94d6e1a824e303bc93a05dc947498e:disqus - I'm not sure what your solution would be.  Would you rather that these centrist voters simply stuck with the same party, ensuring their permanent predominance?

@avclub-ca94d6e1a824e303bc93a05dc947498e:disqus - I'm not sure what your solution would be.  Would you rather that these centrist voters simply stuck with the same party, ensuring their permanent predominance?

@avclub-0d4efaa2c9d1041eb9b8b5319eec8531:disqus - This sneeringly condescending view of conservatives as borderline subhuman degenerates crowded in their rural hovels while cradling their Bibles and their domestic land-mines in between sessions of in-breeding and lynching is not only ripe for parody, but also one of…

@avclub-0d4efaa2c9d1041eb9b8b5319eec8531:disqus - This sneeringly condescending view of conservatives as borderline subhuman degenerates crowded in their rural hovels while cradling their Bibles and their domestic land-mines in between sessions of in-breeding and lynching is not only ripe for parody, but also one of…

Yes, truly the only criticism you could make of Michael Moore is that he is fat.  It's not like he is also a propagandistic, editorially corrupt film-maker who has a tendency to eulogise dictatorships simply to spite his government, or that his views on globalisation and capitalism are as insular and antiquated as…

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus - I especially love the idea that we should support anything Aaron Sorkin shits out because it is important and influential, even though it is only watched by his already-devoted adherents.

I am going to also have to dispute the idea that liberals are more likely to laugh at themselves.  Orthodox liberals are just as self-righteous and convinced of their own cause as orthodox conservatives.  If they perceive their principles as being outstanding, then there's no way they are going to laugh at them being…

I cannot think of any one who has done less to fight entrenched power or promote unorthodox thought than hippies.

I cannot think of any one who has done less to fight entrenched power or promote unorthodox thought than hippies.

People tend to go through their 'political phase' at college, and seem to think that having a brazenly uncompromising stance on everything is a substitute for information, knowledge or experience.

People tend to go through their 'political phase' at college, and seem to think that having a brazenly uncompromising stance on everything is a substitute for information, knowledge or experience.

Do you think Armando Iannuci loves New Labour?  Or that John Stewart secretly has a soft-spot for all those conservatives he ridicules?

Do you think Armando Iannuci loves New Labour?  Or that John Stewart secretly has a soft-spot for all those conservatives he ridicules?

Why do people always shit on centrism?

Why do people always shit on centrism?

I am shocked, shocked that liberals consider themselves to be unsuitable targets for satire.