You really, really haven't met many people from all around the world if you think straight white men are uniquely terrible in their bigotry.

I saw Return of the Jedi with my older brother at the cinema when I was 5. I was thoroughly excited but a bit scared of the creatures in Jabba's palace. The images that stayed with me until I finally saw it again on video when I was 12 or so were the Death Star hologram, the lightsabres, the forest, the Imperial guard…

Not to be topical, but Soundgarden's "Like Suicide" has an ASTOUNDING guitar solo.

Have you seen/heard Kazuhito Yamashita's adaptation of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhbition? It's the most bonkers musical feat I've ever witnessed.

Snail by Smashing Pumpkins actually has a decent little one.

Tristessa has a neat little solo too. Corgan is a helluva guitarist.

Tristessa has a particularly brilliant solo.

Tristessa's solo is probably his best.

I think if I had to explain to some hypothetical novice to rock music how a song should be constructed, Comfortably Numb would be it.

Add me as a person who thinks the pinnacle of the guitar solo is either Time or Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. Or Money. Or Dogs. Or Sheep. Or Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

Sounds like Lush crossed with Dragonforce.

"This album" being Achtung Baby.

Best part was bumping Lara into a wall, and she'd say "no, that's not right" in a breathy posh voice that was rather titillating.

It's their youthful abandonment of protocol.

Apparently she was tricked into performing Eternal Flame in the nude ("you'll perform better") so now I find that song uncomfortably titillating.

I'm sure he was a man of his time (which is to say he'd hold some currently unacceptable views) but I'm always willing to wipe someone's slate clean if they renounce their earlier bigotry. I mean, if people aren't willing to do that, there's really no incentive for bigots to renounce their views.

It's worth reading Wikipedia about Ty Cobb to see how he was slandered, and mostly by one journalist who had an axe to grind. He doesn't seem to deserve the reputation he has.

The capital of South Africa is Pretoria.

There was no lack of basset hounds, actually.

The implication in my original post being that all progressives do the things that I mentioned, naturally.