I can keep a weather eye on the class issues. The others I will leave to people with more talent and impact.

And here's the kicker: lots of queers sound just as dumb and uneducated as the rest of the population. Making it so that we have to get a minor in Women's to be able to articulate our issues in the perfect jargon and with perfect citations makes it so that we don't have the luxury to just pick things up from reading…

Oh, man, that would be amazing to see. The committees!

We'll put it this way: if I had the luxury of relaxing, I wouldn't smoke.

I find that they are the same people. They don't like 'slobs.' Often that's a class thing, sometimes it's just assholery and priggishness. Same personality traits, in any case. At least the anti smoking people have a legitimate health thing with indoor smoking bans. The anti fat people are in general just using public…

Ha! You didn't see the thread in which I dared note that having to wander into Siberia in the winter sucks. You'd think I personally killed science.

He's iconic because people have made him iconic. Doesn't mean the music was fantastic. Keep in mind that Nirvana fans also wear Che shirts, and that should tell you everything you need to know.

I actually am not itching to spar; I just found a thing that struck me, and I commented on it, and then you came back with "but WHY DO YOU LOVE NAZIS." I actually just figured that poking at it would get an "oh yeah, maybe not those words" and that'd be the end of it, because you clearly are in general concerned with…

It is entirely possible to not like classism and also disapprove of Nazis. At the same time, even! A really bad thing doesn't make a different bad thing less bad. If you're going to get all dudgeony about me poking at a throwaway statement you made that struck me as un-self-aware and moderately ridiculous, not to…

I'd love for you to point to the part where I defended either Neo-nazis or domestic violence. What I said, specifically (if sarcastically) was that I saw some irony in castigating eugenics while using a phrase like "these people just breed together like trailer park trash." You know, 'cause that sort of sounds like…

Right? That'd show those neo-Nazis, what with their strict ideas of who can and can't breed!

I also find the mating habits of poor people distasteful. They don't even TRY to get into the "vows" section before they go off having sex willy-nilly, as though adults have any sort of right to have families! I wonder if there is some sort of government program that we might set up, where we could decide whether…

Aaand my shitty day just got better. I always feel a bit smug when I'm not good enough for losers. Maybe I should get a neck tattoo to make sure his ilk stays on the other side of the street?

I have to disagree. There is nothing that could cap off Berlusconi in the history books more appropriately than the following: "and then they made an awful porn which also for some reason involved Vladimir Putin."

Rich fulcher did drunk history a day or two ago.

I think the best response to holiday hours is remarkably industry-specific. I manage a fast-food joint, and we still have to staff at full capacity on holidays because we know that most of the customers will be cranky and rude. So if (God forbid) someone has to wait longer than they think they should because we're…

Um. I can explain that. You see, here in the backwoods of Utah, we refer to non-procreative sex as "promiscuous." Hence, any questions about contraception, oral/anal/masturbatory things, aids d'amour, etc would by extension be "promiscuous."

It's a popularish insult in Cincinnati, but I don't think it's actually meant to be one word. It's also generally sandwiched into a string of other profanity, so it's a bit choosy to go with those two.

Listen here, missy. Every other country in the world had exactly the same experience we did through all of history, and they still only do what we tell them to culturally. And therefore, stuff we consider offensive is, and stuff they cry about is just silly.