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It's almost like you've heard a song of theirs ...

Metallica post-1990 is, in fact, shit beer.

Metallica ceased to exist in approximately 1989. As you were ...

Somehow, a shower beer is just the epitome of sweet, bad-ass, it's-a-great-day-to-be-alive, all-American freedom. A shower beer always gives me a such an overtly aware, uplifting feeling - truly one of the great simple pleasures in life. (And go with a can.)

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Your point is well-articulated and I appreciate that more than you know. However, the Boston Tea Party, tea dumped into the harbor was not altogether symbolic - it was a rather literal obstruction and destruction of the goods being unreasonably taxed (as I understand it). Frankly, on that note, I get the burning of…

How you took what I said to mean black people don't deserve justice - I can't even make that leap. But this whole concept of "justice" is pretty abstract and, frankly, growing more difficult to understand by the day.

And now you hit the nail squarely on the head. Couldn't have said it any better myself. But it's not superiority, Rev, it's common sense. I never intended any of what I said to sound condescending, though. If me calling rioters idiots is condescending, I gladly look down my nose at people too stupid to not shit where…

Hot take, Smalls. And it wasn't a lecture, more of a personal account - which I stated clearly above. It's way too easy to devolve a dialogue into a case-citing (from 15 years ago). I can then counter with the little white girl who got her head blown open in a drive-by while she sat on her grandfather's lap. None of…

That's part of my point, Rev. Life can be hopeless and nasty for EVERYBODY. Hopelessness and nastiness knows no color. Despair isn't exclusive. Like I said earlier, the true beacons of light in and around this situation are to be commended and supported, and they should be furious with the idiots. The idiots are…

In the most simple terms: horse and shit. Catharsis for a hundred lifetimes, eh? Let's just toss personal responsibility out, or in this case THROUGH the fucking window for a hundred lifetimes' worth and then we can finally call it even? Break it down, Rev: set the black-owned store on fire = "the cause for black…

I can't - he's dead.

It is sort of great, but it completely mosses over the part that flat-out enrages white-breads like myself (and many others). I live 30 miles away from Ferguson and watched a lot of this unfold in real-time. The overall POINT is solid; value all life equally regardless of skin color NOW, and we're not bullshitting.…

I grew up about 30 miles away from Ferguson as a middle class white kid in the white-bread suburbs. I had long hair as a teenager and got hassled by the police constantly. Pulled over for no reason, taken to jail for getting jumped in a parking lot while they let the other guys go, got shoved backward down half a…

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Hearing Clayton dish-dish with members of the local sports media at a training camp practice when he thought only 4 or so people were listening (they herded up and stood right in front of me) made him sound exactly like the nerdy kid dying to be liked.

Chimay is as good as it gets. Just had to throw Unibroue's name in the mix. The Blanche de Chambly is my favorite, but I had their holiday pack a handful of Christmases ago and was blown away ...

... and the Packers