Wish I could like this post more than once. All the Asian influences are visual aesthetic signaling: the neon, the night markets, the foreignness. The same sleazy, greasy feeling that I get watching white people use Tokyo as their Funland Good Time Playscape in Lost in Translation is present here as well. The…

I’m sorry that happened to you.

Other people can correct me if I’m wrong, but as an NBA fan, it’s always been my perception that NBA fans have generally changed and grown less racist in proportion to the amount that the country itself has grown less racist. Not perfect by any means, but you can’t exactly say that about NASCAR or NFL fans.

God-spectrometer it is!

Amazing! You’ve done what decades of constitutional scholarship couldn’t: “simply” deciphered the single correct interpretation of the First Amendment. Thanks for telling us all what it clearly states by paraphrasing its first five words.

No.

“Nobody”? There’ve been at least three posts in this thread alone with the grisly details. Or by real evidence do you mean a God-spectrometer that can divine whether he’s “truly racist in his heart”?

Not to mention the extension of freedom of speech into public institutions in general, none of which is Congress.

Holy crap, where did all these “here’s why both sides are wrong” and “liberalism is a sickly [sic] mental disorder” creeps in the comments come from? Did someone post a link to reddit or something?

I’m old enough to have been semi-conscious during Bush I’s administration. To me he seemed like a highly privileged man whose social status allowed him to remain deliberately uncaring of the consequences of indulging and intensifying some of Reagan’s worst policy decisions. (Admittedly, many of those policies…

And yet you read it to the end, formulated a comment, went back to the body of the article to pull a quote, and decided your sputum was worthy of publication...

So much culture vulture in one song. Why listen to this when you could listen to Peaches’ ‘Operate’?