Ha! I'd steal that line if I didn't live in my hometown.

Fine with us.

The sun bear at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle does the same thing, making the same loop over and over.

Whiz in a bucket, that's a paddlin

My farting tattoos (?) aside, I don't care whether the Dutch "get a break" on their history, my question is why is it important for us, our country, to mythologize our past? Why is it better to pretend real events didn't happen. You say it gives a "sense of place in relation to the world." But isn't it a false sense,…

What do you mean when you say the loss of mythology "hurts"?

See, I'm in over my head here. I had thought the issue was the aesthetics of the Diva belt, not the relationship between the men's and women's belts.

Oops sorry!

Thanks, I've been lurking for years.

He should thank God he doesn't have *too many* vestigial limbs.

I like that he criticizes the women's pro wrestling belt for being "garish".

Crypto-fascist!

You make a great point. Part of the job description of a public intellectual must be trying out new ideas on the public. Odds are most new ideas are bad, and all new ideas are uncomfortable, so part of being a public intellectual is saying a lot of dumb/icky stuff in public. If the public is too swift to kill these…