As deeply troubled as Cookie Monster is, he's not unteachable.

*pats otterhead*

Aww, who's a little otter?! Who's a little otter?!

Looking forward to it, though I'm still waiting for someone to write a song about Elizabeth Bishop.

I won't be satisfied until every single comment on this site is written in this style.

She does that in this!? I hadn't read the review yet, but I will be looking into that.

"He's a smart dude".

She is a sexy, sexy woman. Not a deeply insightful observation and yet I feel compelled to make it.

Ah, yes. The Troops purportedly fight for the freedoms that only a coward would seek to ever exercise.

SURE, GET INTO THE MOVIE BUSINESS. GET INTO EVERY BUSINESS, YOU TOTALITARIAN BASTARDS.

Or bathed, I think? Like never bathed. Been a while since I read it but I thought Jon Halliday's biography related that.

Couldn't agree more.

Dear Nudeador,

Dear Nudeador,

That more or less exhausts my thoughts on this topic. I was thinking that Nigel Hawthorne couldn't have fully appreciated that display until I realized it was Mel Brooks.

We are. Sorry if I sounded a little ornery. I appreciate that this is the only place I know of online where anyone talks about this kind of thing in a civilized way.

Burns: Look at them. Smug and secure in their finery. Mocking us.
Homer: Uh, they’re just snowmen, Mr. Burns.
Burns: Ah, snowmen have peepers. Peepers to watch. To watch for a moment of weakness and then BAFF comes the knock in the head and we’re down!
Homer: What do we do??
Burns: Oh… wouldn’t you like to know.

I do, despite weilding ever so slightly less influence than those guys. I just also think it might be helpful if atheists who pride themselves on being paragons of logic were slightly less reductive on the subject. (I don't mean you, just as a general observation).

I abhor those people as much as you, but exactly by virtue of their reading them that way, they aren't serious (i.e. informed, intelligent) adherents. In fact, what they actually believe is anyone's guess. I'm sure they're ignorant enough to believe what they claim to, but they may also be merely playing to their…

I don't deny that at all. Nor can you deny that Jeffrey Skilling thought Dawkins' The Selfish Gene sanctioned him to commit financial fraud, or that the Nazis thought evolutionary processes entitled them to commit genocide. There are stupid and fanatical people who falsely infer all kinds of shit from things, but it…