I kinda like The World Is Not Enough. Good villain. I do think Goldeneye hasn't held up that well, though.

Hey, I'm as big a fan of Achtung Baby as they come - I've got a postcard sized photo of a Trabant right here near my desk. But I hear a difference between what they were doing during ZooTV and what they did on Pop. Achtung Baby seemed so natural, to me, where Pop seemed calculated. Or calculated even by U2 standards.

This article just reminded me that, when I was in high school, I dated a girl a few years older than me and "We're The Same" was our song.

Saw them perform at SXSW that year. My wife's a huge Bangles fan, so we got there early and were basically right at the front of the stage. Susanna sang the chorus of Run To Me while looking straight into my eyes.

I always hear about how inescapable this song was but, somehow, I'm the one guy who avoided it. I like Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, but I couldn't hum two bars of this song for all the money they made off of it.

U2's oddball culture chasing with Pop has always seemed like the 90s version of Some Girls to me.

Baby we don't love you baby we don't love you baby NOOOOOO!

Also… what's the AV Club's opinion on the truth of that fragment? Was "Stars" really anything more than a droney song some people liked and some people didn't?

As a kid, I actually didn't like Calvin and Hobbes because I thought Calvin was a jerk, and not unlike some jerky kids at school who I also didn't like. It took me until adulthood to discover how wise and profound the strip actually was.

"Never change, nonorientable".

I'll kind of back you up here, Demi. I've heard the phrase "Mexican" used as a general slur by white people plenty of times here in Texas - sometimes bastardized into the offensive "Messican" and sometimes not. (You can hear a similar usage of the word "Jew" or the word "Black", both perfectly inoffensive words that…

Yeah, well-spotted. That is one of the deepest ironies of the whole right-wing hatred of political correctness: They censure just as harshly, only on different topics.

Of course they can and do. I'm not acting like this is some super-power that only I have. And I don't personally object to people discussing those things with various levels of urgency (I'll do it myself, now: I'm pro-female Doctor and don't understand any argument I've ever heard that says the character couldn't or…

HOW DARE YOU! MY GRANDAD DIDN'T FIGHT A WORLD WAR TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR STUPID OPINIONS!

I'm not sure how much recent traction they've really gotten with their "stamp out PC" nonsense, to be honest. Those morons never stopped railing against PC, even after the initial fad died out. To those guys, PC will never fully die until a white guy can call minorities whatever names he wants without being censured.…

I'm certainly not looking forward to that, if it happens. But there's a difference between fighting for, let's say, measurable results in the country's inflated African American incarceration rates and arguing with some guy on the internet over whether he's sexist because he's not sufficiently angry that the new…

That's probably true.

It does seem like the world has recently divided into shrill MRA morons on one side and knee-jerk Oversensitives on the other. I wouldn't even say it was this bad 4 or 5 years ago. It does, in fact, remind me of the early 90s political correctness movement, to some degree, where a person's demographic category could…

Played out. I liked the one where Cookie Monster sang Tom Waits, though.

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