“they were about to start singing when I stopped them (politely)”

“The whole adding milk before your tea dates back to a time when tea was being consumed out of glasses that would crack if the hot liquid was poured in first.”

“Why does this song feel like being transported into a hell dimension, tortured for a thousand lifetimes, then sent back to the second you left?”

The way I see it, racism and authoritarianism are mutually reinforcing. It’s not like either one is the main cause and the other one merely a sidekick.

How many millennial-bashers can spell “Oświęcim” (the actual Polish name for what the Germans called “Auschwitz”)?

The word “awful” used to mean “awesome.”

The idea that covering a song in a style different from the original is “disrespectful” is mysterious to me.

Here’s what I wrote about Paul Ryan six years ago:

I was about to say this. By Roman standards we all dress like barbarians.

Oh, I screwed up; they weren’t pedestrians. Doesn’t change the main point tough.

And if he’s going to harass people, surely it would be less bad if he were doing it on social media rather than following people in person.

Give me a break. What about the hundreds of thousand of Muslims killed by the u.s. government and its clients around the world?

Thank goodness Christianity has no history of torture, slavery, murder, and terror.

He drives to work v e r y s l o w l y .

“I guess my fear and paranoia, I just yelled out.”

He may be a terrible person, but on the other hand, he’s also a terrible actor.

“Featherless biped” was once offered by Plato as a definition of a human being — to which Diogenes supposedly replied that in that case a plucked chicken should count as human. Though I reckon Plato had in mind a being that was by nature featherless and bipedal. (Hence a human who loses a leg would still be human.)

I dunno; all the various trailers showed so much, and what they showed looked so good, that I and the people I knew went in pretty optimistic.

Balrog wings are like Buffalo wings, only even hotter.