Just because the only bears you've ever seen are brown- it doesn't mean that there aren't white bears somewhere on earth. You're using a form of logic that is common in pre-literate societies.

No. I'm saying that if I'm given two choices: a world in which this speech happened, and a world in which this speech didn't happen- I'd choose the former. Because that world is marginally better.

I find the fact that Americans care about football this much highly troubling.

There's some deep Id shit in the vocabulary to this game. Really unsettling.

I know a lot of people in the Peace Corps, for some reason. Whenever some "western minimal responsibility" thing is being discussed in polite conversation, be it about how we should recycle, or use less electricity, or take the bus more- I find (at least among the people that I know) that it's hard for them to not…