Yes, this is as heartwarming story of valiant labor struggle as we've seen since the French World Cup team.

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Our motto: where our manipulative ability meets your psychological pliability!

I'm sure Ice-T's life insurance provider will be very interested to hear that he doesn't wear seat belts. To the actuarial tables!

Yeah, you musta had a great view of that routine traffic stop . . . FROM YOUR DESK!

Prettypants, I actually kind of like Slate, and I was thinking the exact same thing.

Unfortunately, my name is Step Up 3-D Smith.

Fidel—based on my Persian friend whose middle name is Cyrus, pronounced Sigh-roose (i.e., rhyming with my-moose) with the second syllable accented, it's not as clear as you think.

Oh, yeah, definitely belongs on the list. I just think the write-up is way off base. And, as someone pointed out below, it incorrectly suggests the whole song takes place in a day, when obviously it stretches over at least ten years. But why bother listening to the song before you write about it?

Just want to second JMP's call out to "Talkin' World War III Blues" by Bob Dylan. The humor really comes out when you hear live versions (only on bootlegs, until the "Live 1964" album came out). The delivery of the punch lines and the audience reactions are great. Plus the mixed-up Lincoln quotes culminating in…

Excitable Boy
I really don't think it's right to say that "Excitable Boy" is a "case in point" of Zevon's saying that killers are "okay guys." In fact, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the opposite of the point. The whole song is about how people pooh-pooh all these warning signs of deeply anti-social violence, and…

Like the song, and musically chipper, but the lyrics are hardly cheerful. It takes itself pretty seriously, if I remember right (not that that's a bad thing).

Wow, it's like I'm reading a comment by Plato!

Alamar—or should I say . . . Sheltem!
Any other nerds out there who kinda hoped this would tie in to the awesome "Might and Magic" RPG series whose first mid-80s installment centered around a rather shifty King Alamar? That game had my seven-year-old self absolutely glued to his Apple IIGS.

The source material for the comment (Principal Skinner, an authority figure explaining why he refuses to challenge students) was meant to indicate irony, and to suggest that the problem is that the media has undue contempt for its audience, and is partially responsible for such defects as its audience exhibits. If…

If they raised the intellectual standards of the local news, then it would be the stupid viewers in here complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.

A good samaritan has posted a link to it on the second page of comments. Nah, I don't have the energy to cut and paste it here. He's a better man than I am.

Friend, you have performed a great service.

Yes, we saw Ben's reflection in the microwave door. The camera lingered for a little while, and it looked to me like Ben saw his reflection.

We're not taking care of Guam, are we?