I don't know, a lot of libertarians and conservatives in college are involved with that subculture.

Come on, man. Read the room.

But also, Jabba the Hutt owns half a planet, instead of just licensing his name for a couple cantinas.

In fairness, that quote came from someone calling into the show called Ronald Frump. I believe it read, "His speaking is so great. It's the greatest. Terrific."

Dammit. I knew y'all had secret emails.

The Swedish Democrats are one of the largest parties in Parliament now, and they're batshit insane. Also, Denmark has always been sorta racist, and they're drifting even farther in that direction now. Norway and Finland are pretty cool though. And Sweden is actually under a pretty cool government right now; it's…

I was just in Ireland, and I was treated to several lectures while there. On the other hand, I met an equal number of people who genuinely recognized the complexity of American politics and wanted to learn from an inside perspective. By and large, everyone was pretty courteous, except for a handful of people who had…

. . . batteries.

Because NEOLIBERALISM! I don't know what that word means, but if I repeat it often and loudly enough, I'm sure that it'll win every argument.

As a minority who's family actually lived through a revolution and barely got out with their skin, it drives me nuts when upper middle class white people fantasize about that bullshit. They all seem to think that they're gonna be Katniss Everdeen or something.

As an apocalyptic movie aficionado and economist who is into some really kinky shit . . . what?

Because Paul Ryan has a system of pneumatic pressurized tubes running through his body instead of a spine, so he'll probably float?

I don't think that the absence of Mandarin in international trade is an issue, because English is now growing commonplace in China. But yeah, there are all sorts of internal factors that are going to limit China in the coming years, from sociopolitical to economic. They're more comparable to Japan in the 80s than…

I mean, technically I'm only half-brown, but since Jeff Sessions will be reinstating the one-drop rule any day now . . .

Okay, off topic, but archaeologists represent!

It was a perfectly natural, wholesome incestuous relationship, unlike this sinful sodomy that these gay people keep getting up to.

And like, we actually have some legit geological evidence that there may have been a major deluge near the Caucasus that could have inspired these flood myths. There's also a flood myth shared among some Native American cultures that was likely inspired by the fracturing of the glacial dams during the end of the last…

Now, don't be harsh. Tenured faculty too.

As someone who has been in both American and European departments (though I don't have a PhD . . . yet), based on my experience it seems to differs across the board. There are some programs that have basically no coursework at all (the European model), but all the American programs I know require at least two years…

As Resident Smartass points out, the fact that he has a PhD means that at some point, he had to defend his thesis. Presumably, if he was at UofS, that was actually a fairly strenuous process. I guess there's nothing to have stopped him from just parroting back every paper he read without believing it, but he must…