What are these supposed to be? The 21st century's Lawrence Welk and his insipid, straight-o family? *shudder 'n' puke*

George Monbiot said it best:

Sorry for being all shouty, but THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GLORIOUS ILLOS, DUDE.

I'm not going to comment on all your thoughts because that would take a very long time. Thing is, I totally agree w/each and every one of them, especially your first:

...I have never lived in NYC, but I did live in several other big Northern-Midwest cities. It's about as white and bland as you get. I suppose that's what makes me mad about so many of these North/South debates. So many wealthy northern whites have never been exposed to the problems or groups that they have…

you're slapping a "LOL THE SOUTH" label on issues that are endemic with rural poverty.

Fuck the South apart from those who believe in evolution, science, climate change, Planned Parenthood/birth control/proper women's health care and proven facts, not made-up bullshit.

I've got a teeny-tiny fake sushi box that my sister gave me before we left NYC to live in EU. The detail is amazing. Also, thanks for the Wim Wenders. :-)

Internationally, Singapore Airlines is like heaven.

I think a lot of men assume that their aesthetic preferences are an objective universal standard.

Kim K. looked like a short, fat armadillo with cleavage. I actually LOLed when I saw her.

I wish I could star you more than once for that.

Sit down and STFU. If you don't know how to link straight to 'tech tab', you don't belong on the Internet.

Thank you for saying (and really, she can 'intellectualise' it — or whatever — all she wants, but she's wrong). Also, manamana's 'rich kids playing poor' were nothing but poseurs back then and now.

Having grown up in and loved NYC (until the 90s), I got this weird flash of pleasure when viewing 'I Am Legend', when Will Smith rides all over totally destroyed Manhattan. Then they ruined the excellent source material by introducing the woman and child near the end so it'd have an upbeat ending. In fact, fuck that…

It is also pleasant to imagine hungry 99%ers devouring the 1% when are unable to escape due to collapsing infrastructure and declining law and order.

I would also love to confront a stranger that says, "Smile!" But I never know what to say in response.....I usually just smile.

I've had mine in for only a few weeks now but the pair I had in before were in for like three years w/only a day or so out soaking due to the rare times one of my eyes'd get irritated. (Lather, rinse and repeat, going back to the mid-80s.) My new opthomologist (and my BF) are the only ones to whom I've ever confessed…

That's so funny! (No, really.) We were forced to take Lufthansa business to bring our kitty to Heathrow from Frankfurt in 2004. That was because they were the only DE airline who offered Pet-Air. Leaving from NYC in 2001 was the same but we were on Lufthansa's offshoot, Singapore Air (business class again, thanks to…

Then there's the hassle of going through security upon each visit. I've been through airport security in Germany post-9/11 and it's no less intrusive there than it is in America.