Some of the most damaging moments for Republicans in recent elections have been when people caught them saying shit they thought only the base would hear. If I was an activist I'd devote my time to hanging out at their rallies and waiting for the next "legitimate rape" or "47%" moment.

I don't think Occupy or the Tea Party were major threats to the status quo either though. Occupy might have been at one point, but they petered out because they were more about image, sloganeering, and so forth than a workable plan to change policy, which kinda reminds me of this situation. The Tea Party was literally…

It's a point that's been made a sufficient number of times, in my opinion. And the people it's aimed at never seem to get that they're the punchline. Baumbach isn't the first satirist to have that problem, of course.

And jeez, what a dumb moral crisis. What's the concern, that a raging egotist would NOT love being featured in a college-equivalent New Yorker? If writers were banned from using their friends as inspiration, they'd all have to quit.

I'd be willing to give this a chance if it were set literally anywhere other than the most self-absorbed, auto-fellating city since Imperial Rome.

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What's everyone's favorite DFW? A Supposedly Fun Thing stuck with me for a while; his editors probably didn't want him to get too weird, but he managed to get a lot of good stuff in there anyway. I also liked Brief Interviews: rarely do you see such an honest and unvarnished description of how weird male sexuality can…

Funny, upthread some folks were just complaining how young people are so disgustingly saccharine and averse to any kind of negativity. I guess it could be both; they're disgustingly saccharine, but only because they think that's how everyone else wants them to be.

It felt (and still feels) very uncanny valley to me, like the logical conclusion of all those studies about how such and such tempo or chord goes straight to the dopamine center and makes people want to hear a song regardless of whether they like it. I'd totally believe it was written and produced by eight men in…

Remember mustard gas? Fav this if you're a '10s kid!

This sick feature.

If you stare at that picture long enough, Tim winks at you. Try it, it's fun!

Sometimes I get annoyed with poptimists…then I read an actual That's Not Real Metal/Punk/Rock/whatever complaint and remember why they seemed like such a breath of fresh air at the time. I'd be more sympathetic to the Real Music purists if it seemed like they were having any fun at all, instead of engaging in a sad…

This kid's got moxie. Believe you me, she's gonna hit it big one of these days.

That's the funniest shit I've ever seen.

Well, at least they've finally moved on from Tweety Bird and Betty Boop, right?

Not Mulan!

Literally every region in the country has a reputation as especially crazy/terrible drivers. Except maybe Iowa.

"That feeling when you're sucking another dude's hog in the back of a psychotic redneck's van."

I wonder, are kids who read these today (or the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, or any similar books) confused at all by the lack of adult supervision and authority in-story? Seems like such the opposite of how people raise kids these days, I just wonder if the kids themselves notice.