Agreed. And to simplify, this is a form of dad-humor. I have adapted such speech when trying to talk to my teen.

Despite the fact that Barack Obama is inherently cool because he is Barack Obama, I’m cool with him not knowing what twerking is. In fact, I hope he never knows what twerking is. It would be as awkward as when my dad associated every rapper with RUN DMC and any video game as a Nintendo (even though we never owned a…

Coates talks a lot about how Obama hectors black Americans.

It’s one thing to criticize the objectification of Black women as well as unrealistic standards of masculinity in mainstream pop culture and another to blatantly ignore the roots of the dance in the Bounce scene in the very Queen of Twerking herself, Cheeky Blakk. Not to mention neither of these problems could exist…

Wait! Are you trying to say that I’m NOT going to achieve this item on my bucket list?

I’d be concerned if he knew more about twerking than this. That is a perfect balance for a 57 yr old former African American President with a wife and 2 daughters. 

BOOM!

Not sure if this article is serious...

Isn’t Obama speaking more towards pop culture imagery here than specifics? Unlike, say, Bill Cosby, I assume Obama is savvy enough to know there aren’t roving bands of twerking women looking for rich rappers to dance around.

I get that feeling, but I comfort myself with the thought that making it to the end of life having been a basically decent, moral person throughout is no mean feat in today’s world. At 40, I think I’ve made it (at least) halfway there.

Except "we will ruin your life" is literally what Scientology does. Auditing is their version of collecting blackmail data. 

I guess it makes a difference if your main public face is “that girl from Smallville” or Tom Cruise.

“...so if Mack is guilty, the argument runs, then Scientology must be, too.”

He probably started in the middle of the previous pay period. “We’ll just hold this for safe keeping until the next pay period. Not like you were unemployed for months or need to eat, right?” You might say I’m still bitter two years later.

What is so difficult about the pronunciation of her name? One of the many virtues of Spanish is that words are pronounced exactly as they’re spelled, and there are even accent marks to tip you off! Show a non-native speaker of English the common name of “McDonough” and ask them how they think it’s pronounced. Or for…

And let’s just point out one of the husks at the table is Judith Miller. Every one of her fake laughs goes over like a cackle. If she seems out of touch, it’s because she doesn’t seem to realize not every journalist gets a Fox News parachute after feeding the world stories to fuel the invasion of Iraq.

They’re obsessed with her, yet they stumble over her name every single fucking time they try to say it. Stick to monosyllabic words instead, dimwits.

Fox and trumpanzees’ obsession with her is super creepy

People who have no moral compass or any idea what the real struggle is like, literally let them eat cake mentality.