It's from a Philip Larkin poem :)

I think it's more an Internet thing than an American thing. I'm American, and I've only seen it done online— mostly here/Gawker, Cracked, and Tumblr. I think it's done for emphasis/sarcasm at once— it's a deliberate oversimplification often done to mock something. So here, obviously there are more factors at work than…

Exactly. I don't go on Twitter to tell everyone how happy I am, because I'm busy being happy. I go on Twitter to try to make other people aware of something problematic. And yes— though I have a special place in my heart for Dawkins and especially Hitchens, because reading them made me realize that I was neither alone…

Wait, hold on. How do they know people aren't hate-following someone who believes the opposite of them— or whether some atheists aren't curious about hearing what the Pope has to say, and some religious folk about what Dawkins is saying? I just think this methodology sounds a little questionable...

This sounds like my baby brother (10 years younger). When he was about 5, we left him in his clean room for about ten minutes and came back to find a room that looked like it had had a visit from the Incredible Hulk. We asked him what happened to his room. He looked around, bemused, and said, after a moment of…