[Citizen Kane clapping GIF]

This is where I need a GIF of Riker turning to the camera and grinning.

I mooted him too here, and yeah - even his essays have never hinted at any particular conservatism, as far as I can recall.

I’ve liked O’Rourke on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and have been meaning to look at some of his writing.

Michael J. Nelson? (Depends on your definitions of “brilliant” and “comedian”, I guess.)

Aha... well, listen, neighbor - I’ve been watching a LOT of “ST:TOS” lately, and the truth is honestly somewhere in the middle. :)

“noisy, incoherent, brutally dumb, and almost studiously unfunny”

Yes, yes, very interesting. But what the HELL is going on in that photo?!?!?

As I think someone else here commented, that movie looks like a 14-year-old boy’s idea of what “adult” means.

As in all areas of life, children ruin EVERYTHING.

I mean this would fit right in with Thomas Friedman’s McDonald’s hypothesis, so... potential win?

More information than you probably wanted on this:

“MST3K” is an obvious one for me.

“trade in your car for a bicycle”

See, with language like that, you MIGHT be part of the problem.

Oh, I have SO been that guy!

“Today on ‘Awful Crafts’...”

I thought he was an animated pile of sunburn peelings and sanded-off callouses?

Oh, I can do it! But I have a little music training. Not everyone does, even if they can still clap a beat at a show.

Naw, it doesn’t make you a dumbass. I think it’s just one of those cases of someone who writes about something they love thinking everyone else knows as much as they do. :)