That actually does come up. At one point you visit a greasy spoon in New Mexico and the local Kommandant comes in for a milkshake, says it’s one of the few worthwhile things about America, and then orders the owner to change the rest of his menu to traditional german cuisine.

Wait, you’re telling me that the Penny Arcade guys were completely and totally fucking wrong about the video game industry?

Basically BJ’s maternal grandfather had a successful business on the Texan gulf coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. BJ’s dad, Rip, wooed and married BJ’s mother mainly so that he could take over that business. But he ran it into the ground because, well, he’s an incompetent failed salesman. The…

So... just like was policy under Obama?

Too little too late.

This is the most fucked up rhetoric + imagery combo since he touched the orb.

If anything it makes them more likely to embrace it as just another reason why they totally aren’t bigots, they can’t be, they love the Wachowskis. And look! Milo got gay married to a black man! Please ignore the Zyklon B behind the curtain.

Ah but you see, our fancy new neolib PM has a haida themed tattoo and made a speech, so no problem here.

Of course they did. The US is the country that’s been pushing anti-gay laws in places like Uganda hardest. Now all of a sudden it’s the party that doesn’t have to pretend to tut’s go.

For me, the most memorable Ultimate Warrior moment was when someone photoshopped every panel in Gavin Aung Than’s tribute to him with the phrase FAGS AND MUSLIMS OUT OF AMERICA.

There was a pretty great episode of SWOTI this week where they talked to a redneck leftie, a Bengali Republican and a Black Hard-Righter.

Nope, Sorry. Gaymos and Andy was bad then and it’s bad now and honestly I’m kind of offended that they can get away with reviving it.

It could be inessential if it were the Japanese version, which ditches Earthbound for Goemon and Tetris Attack.

Nope. Sorry. Anyone involved in the Obama presidency has to go away. The Obama-era presidency was an unprecedented failure. I don’t care how many pretty speeches you wrote, his legacy is at best precarious and the legislative seats lost at the state and federal level are... well, huge.

In the late sixties, Mad ran a piece called The Preamble Revisited. I’m not going to post it, because it features a lynching photo, but it’s basically a Jewish artist who survived Tittmonig (a camp where the Nazis imprisoned Jewish and Black American civilians) tearing into America’s toleration of the Klan by…

I’m really sorry to hear that. I just know they were a big thing for me when I was a teenager and they were a really great way of finding other people. It’s not like I’m in the garden of Eden. I mean, I’m from Calgary. But in the nineties they were super accessible and way better at talking about queer stuff than my…

I’m reliably told that The AV Club was just a way of selling overpriced Hifi speakers to the credulous.

Mailing lists. There were mailing lists. You had to reach out through fan publications but let’s not pretend those things didn’t exist. I think that’s doing a huge disservice to the frankly shocking volume of midwestern housewives who wrote queer erotica styled on Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, and to a lesser extent,…

I like it when they get bitchy towards each other. It’s the main redeeming feature of this format.

It doesn’t help that they keep getting into so many wars. When Deep Space Nine was on, they kitbashed a bunch of old ships back together in order to build new ships that were supposed to look like cobbled together nonsense. The idea being that because the federation keeps fighting the borg, and the romulans, and the…