I'd forgotten about that aspect, but yeah I was thinking largely of Vir too. I'm maybe too young for Animal House to be a thing for me (though parodies and homages of it were common) and perhaps too old for Freakazoid.

I don't think I'd call them great artists. If you want Trump voters though (and I don't think that's necessary to count as a conservative) James Caan, John Ratzenberger, and Nick Searcy have done some good work. Loretta Lynn did at least some significant things in country music. Scott Adams is a bit goofy, but some of…

Pretty ridiculous considering how many of Russia's republics are in Asia and are Asiatic. (Finland is both whiter and I think projected to remain so. Iceland is also fairly "white" if one cares about that.) But she is ridiculous.

Weirdly the first Jewish congressman was a Know-Nothing. And the party did dominate the Massachusetts legislature once.

I didn't like Wall-E as much as I hoped I would. I loved Pixar movies at that point and I've loved robots as long as I can remember. The early part of it has something of an austere beauty, even if plants being dead for a thousand years than somehow coming back seemed a bit weird to me, but maybe a tad too austere at…

Yeah. There's parts of the country where Walmart is practically "it" if you don't have the money for certain other stores. So it's kind of easy to say that kind of thing if you have a good income or live within a Target or Costco rich area.

I remember when I was little we did kind of love it. It was started in Arkansas and we were poor so it was nice to find things cheap enough to buy. Although I think we also called some of their items "Wal-Mart Fall A parts" so it was maybe always tinged a bit.

"Such is our modern dilemma; such is the blood on our pants."

You don't really know that. And I gather you're not really in a position to judge her or her viewers.

It turned out to be a pretty great trip. Some money was won and pizza was eaten. Also the dental stuff was completely painless stuff. It was just biting down on some goo, and that's it. Not even a cleaning or whatever.

In fairness I think they had conspiracist radio back then. Father Coughlin might be an example, come to think of it. Although maybe not a conspiracist Joe Pyne, who my folks told me about, courted controversy in the 1960s. (He also did TV and had Jorgenson on TV in 1966 or 1967.)

An advantage she has is, even after the Trump thing, I think many conservatives will listen to her or at least are still curious about her. So even if she doesn't do what you'd like she could make him look bad to the kind of gun-owning Trump voters who might be interested in him. (Although I will say again the US is…

That I would watch. Start a manatee week! (Well maybe I wouldn't watch, but I think manatees get less exposure. And if you want to go even less exposure to Americans have him swim against the manatee-related dugong of the Old World.)

Seems kind of Soviet to go "Sure we're miserable, but we're all equally miserable!" (Not that that ever totally worked. Party insiders I think had certain added perks even if they maybe did not officially have all that much more money.)

I'm waiting for that on the Paralympics, but that might still be too linked to "freak show" reactions.

So it's just altogether wrong.

Well yeah, of course they can. Jorge Luis Borges, Frank Capra, e. e. cummings, Edgar Degas, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Clint Eastwood (sort-of), T. S. Eliot, Julian Fellowes (well he at least made some entertaining things), Zora Neale Hurston (more like a libertarian), Lillian Gish, P. D. James (well in that she…

I think this has been a source of confusion on the Right too. In his debate Pence came out pretty strong against Putin. When they asked Trump about it in the debate after that he just said he disagreed with Pence on Putin and that's that. McCain has certainly been staunch against Putin. As have several others on the…

Yeah, but it's a bit close to, "He's bad in the ways he's a Right-wing dictator. The ways he's a Left-wing dictator I find begrudgingly appealing."

"This bit of the article reached out and slapped me in the face too."