You don't flip a switch and go from being the party of slavery to the party of civil rights. That took some time. But FDR was when the ship started to turn. And of course, in terms of workers' rights and fighting for the bottom 99%, the Democrats were on the right side the minute Roosevelt took office,

Wait, Texans spontaneously busting into song is a negative stereotype?

And that's damn impressive, given the competition!

Too soon!

It's going on my list!

I was certain the moment of our downfall would have been when U2 found a way to hack into everyone's phone at once.

Yeah, Bush cheating six ways from Sunday will always be a bigger issue for me than Gore not campaigning hard enough in Tennessee.

Yeah, I can tell Korean by sight, I just didn't look closely enough. To tell Chinese from Japanese, sort by stereotype: Chinese characters looks like rows of little factories; Japanese characters are either Samurai slashes or cutesy little squiggles.

I do try and do my research for these, but I draw the line at learning multiple languages so I can tell a movie poster's origin. The movie's still based on a Japanese legend, regardless of where it was filmed.

Well, we did get that Facebook meme of the map of radiation buffetting the West Coast that was actually a map of currents in the Pacific or something innocuous.

If you press the "more comments" button three times in a row, I hear Zodiac Motherfucker appears and murders you while blasting Slayer. Totally happened to my friend's cousin.

That sounds more like a misnomer than an urban legend. My all-time favorite misnomer worldwide is from Korea, where many people, up to and including the Surgeon General equivalent, believed that leaving a fan on can cause you to freeze to death. (Fans don't make the air colder, they cause sweat on your body to…

They were so preoccupied with whether they could build that waterslide, they didn't stop to think if the should!

Quiet, you.

That's amazing. You had a way better experience than I did!

I also want to add my second-best experience (you get this one for free, A.V. Club!) Times Square has two vertical multiplexes, with 2-3 screens on each floor. But it used to also have a warehouse-sized single-screen theater with surround-sound speakers it bought at Metallica's garage sale. Seated about 10,000 people.…

I AM SPARTACUS!!!

I actually do have a staff badge. I have an older pre-staff login that my laptop still defaults to. I guess I should really fix that…

I was with you right up until that last sentence.

I feel like, in this country at least, we don't fix things until they get really bad. Things weren't great in the '70s, but there weren't bread lines and tent cities, so we weren't motivated to make any big changes. We really are like Homer Simpson — it takes a lot to get America off it's ass, but when it does, things…