No. "Portrayals in media" are irrelevant. They are affirmatively a distraction from electoral politics, where power is actually wielded.

Yes. I would certainly argue that. Media doesn't matter. It has no effect on things. You win power and affect society by voting your candidates in. FIFTY YEARS ON, liberals have still failed to learn that.

We deserved Trump.

No she doesn't, shut up.

Or the Radiohead song Plastic Trees?!?

Yes. That's where you could buy the aforesaid bird or hamster.

Ever had a woman command you to "eat me out like Cookie Monster"?

Mmm, true. Or for positioning a solar array.

"Hey baby, wanna learn how a boatswain's mate mates?"

She'd do well; her tiny, birdlike physique means she'd probably consume less air, water and food than a human being of more normal, um, carriage.

I know exactly how they feel: I missed my chance to buy a pair of those $400 Team Zissou sneakers . . .

I dated a punk girl in 1997 with a shaved head. Certain possibilities of depilatory hair-fashion had been opened by the mid- to late-1990s, both by Ms. O'Connor and by Empire Records.

Semper Paratus

Would you believe it was the day I left home for Coast Guard boot camp?

Looking more and more like a decade where the world sat, looking at it's watch, tapping it's foot, waiting for something more interesting to happen. And then God saying, "Ooooookay, you asked for it . . ."

Supposedly Edward Gibbons was wrongwrongwrong to attribute the collapse of the Roman Empire to it's obsession with the minutiae of christian belief (viz. almost what specific percentage human was Jesus and what percentage divine? Get the answer wrong and be impaled alive).

That that blockquote is supposedly a good sum-up of current liberalism is current liberalism's problem in a nutshell.

Google it. Or don't.

I can sorta meet that standard!

More like the JAV Club.