I like everything you wrote here and I was nodding my head as I read until I suddenly got a stray thought. Maybe they’re insecure about themselves as human beings and all they have that makes them good is the whiteness of their skin? So when they hear that being white isn’t the end all and be all they thought it was,…

I’m late reading this, but I’m so glad I came across it. This is genius, in the way that simple, accurate truth so often is. Everything you wrote here should be studied in college sociology classes.

Yeah, the comedy angle probably makes it seem less serious. Maybe that’s a guy thing, thinking if something’s meant to be funny it gets a pass.

I was told that men just didn’t get what it was about Louie masturbating in front of women that was so bad. That it wasn’t as bad as other kinds of assaults and he shouldn’t have been punished as much as he was. Someone explained it to me in a way that made the light bulb go off in my brain:

A large part of my family is biracial. Both of these girls look biracial to me, or like they have some extra melanation from somewhere.

It happens to me when there’s a great conjunction of sitting too long, my brain is bored, and I’m stuck in some kind of situation I can’t get out of. Stretching the Achilles can give some quick, short term relief.

Hey, how many other RRHOF inductees snatched up a frying pan to save themselves from a genetically enhanced shark? And then sang a song to commemorate it? “My hat is like a shark fin.” Golden.

If a person believes their own lies, how will a polygraph test be accurate? I know a lot of people who, when they hear their voice say something, it doesn’t matter what it is, they are absolutely convinced it’s the truth. They can say the exact opposite in the next breath, but as long as it’s their voice saying it,…

Also, how about we quit using the color black to express negative attitudes?

Exchange the P for an F.

There’s a Peanuts cartoon out there somewhere in which Charlie Brown wails: “Isn’t there anyone who understands what Christmas is all about?”

Yes. Choked me up.

Isn’t it illegal in Germany to overtly promote or support Nazism?

I live where fish is a major staple—if we didn’t put Lawry’s on fish we wouldn’t be able to put it on much of anything, and that would be a sin.

Or fish.

The Hunt For Red October (a very streamlined, exciting version of a book that took forever to get going. Also, Scott Glenn, who has been criminally underutilized, shines.)

Eyebrows are everything!

The essential, every day order of my early adult, dirt poor years: One large fries with several tubs of tartar sauce and a medium Coke. Just thinking about that combination of tastes brings it all back.

He’s also hilarious in Extras, where he plays himself as an opportunistic, ego-maniacal rock star. He obviously gets a kick out of spoofing his own celebrity, which makes it fun for us and makes him quite endearing, as you said.

I think you nailed it—it’s a minority thing. I grew up in such a remote place that people were a minority, forget about what race each of us was. My cousins were my brothers and sisters and the kids I went to school with were my cousins and their parents were my aunts and uncles. It’s the same to this day no matter…