I'd like to know about Crown Royal rates, because the ads for that take up half my phone screen when I'm trying to read this site.

What often gets glossed over is that her experience is a very Irish one. We’re a similar age and our upbringings were full of the same cloying religiosity and stark hypocrisy that passed for “normal” back then.

National Socialists are to socialism as American Cheese is to...food.

Yeah, I’ve always been leftie, but when I hit my fifties and particularly now I’m staring down the barrel of the big 6-0 (fuuuuuck!), I’ve shifted so far I’m half expecting an email from Noam Chomsky saying, “dial it back, dude.”

I think the young are less conservative, but they don’t vote. By the time they do get around to voting, they're middle aged conservatives.

I remember reading an article many years ago that said the Columbo format was a major factor in the show’s huge popularity.

I was ready to think “well, maaaaybe it was a good-faith error because someone didn’t read the rules correctly.”

That’s only true if you assume its a zero-sum game.

I believe it’s eating Mountain Dew-dipped Hot Pockets while watching reruns of “The Andy Griffith Show.”

She doesn’t “consume.” She has people for that.

To be fair, he was alluding to the lifetime of a mayfly.

The name Joe is used as shorthand for all sorts of down-home, salt-of-the-earth, real-man, all-American values, but the Biblical Joseph (after whom so many latter-day Joes are named) was that dude who got cucked by God and stuck with raising His brat. Joseph was, to put it bluntly, a credulous sucker.

Same here, after a short period of confusion and, ultimately, disappointment that it didn’t actually turn cotton into gin.

Up until just now, that Microsoft ad with Common “lecturing” about AI (and pronouncing it in a way that made him sound like the fifth Teletubbie) was the dumbest take I’d heard.

Followed by screams of pain and an uptick in emergency room admissions when all those bullets come back down.

“Gentrifier from the block" knocked me out. Perfect.

Yeah, my dog obsessively licks me at every opportunity. I used to think it was love, but I'm beginning to suspect he's just checking to see if I'm done.

Nope. They were wiped out by the Middle Ages.

Yeah, it certainly seems connected. A quick Google produced this:

So she'd be totally fine with a statue of Osama bin Laden, right in front of the Freedom Phallus in NYC? I mean, as a way of teaching about the evils of terrorism? Someone should ask her about this.