The hero here is the cameraperson. The cheerleader and the girl right after seem to have to have the most personality, though some of the folks with shorter bits might have shined brighter with more time. And dang their school is nicer than mine was.

Probably the power was cut by the force of impact, or the cam was damaged.

Well, let's see - there was a fair amount of religious ferment in the Roman empire at the time, many new cults were developing. Clearly a lot of people looking for something. One trend was many people moving to Judaism, and with that a number of people who were attracted to Judaism but did not convert. If you look at…

Mega churches strike me as "not getting it," but it's not my bailiwick. But mega churches do compound the issue of churches not paying taxes.

Nah, he just turned the words of a long-dead peasant faith healer into non-tax-paying megabucks. Not that that's new or anything. Fleecing the gullible never goes out of style, it seems.

Holy Ghoooooost! Holy Ghooooost! Holy Ghooost! (5:20ish)

Yeah, I'm sure these quick snippets are the sum total of father-daughter interaction. Or maybe not. Maybe it's partially staged and edited for laughs. On second though, I'm sure of it. Here's a good reason to never be a parent - not wanting to be judged by everyone in sight.

Exactly. Why should your worst enemy have an awesome kid?

Hmm, I've had it work just pasting in the URL. No clue.

Once again we southerners are reduced to a couple of stereotypes - the SEC college frat boy and those weirdos in Texas. What about the Adlana (Atlanta to you foreigners) bro, who might have actually gone to an ACC school and just wishes he was as cool and sociopathic as those Silicon Valley guys? Or the Nashville bro,…

I practice the "hurl it as hard as you can" version of bowling. Meaning I get gutterballs and strikes in roughly equal numbers. All or nothing, baby!

If you think what Colbert did was "racism," you need to get out more.

There was a certain point in the early 90s when, if I were not the elegantly cultured individual that I am, I would have happily smashed the equipment of any DJ who dared to play "Love Shack."

This is actually a photo from the mid-23rd century that somehow got timeslipped here. This is one of the "artweaks" - people who tweak their bodies for artistic purposes. Something of a hipster group, what we see here is one of the milder forms. That "hat," by the way, is roughly a cyborg equivalent of Google Glass.

100% straight up evil. Please shun these people if you live anywhere near them. They deserve nothing but our contempt.

I'm a southern academic. Understatement is written in my genes. (Figuratively speaking, :) )

Well, I guess I'll just quit my job then, as I study cultures not my own. Or I could point out that this kind of essentialism is not all that far from nationalism, and just as reactionary. And "knowledge is acquired exclusively through proximity?" What? So, books, teachers, all that - useless? That's kind of absurd.

Nonsense. An outsider brings a different perspective, perhaps, but not an inherently invalid one.

In the annals of dumb reasons to break up with someone, that is definitely stellar. Wow.

Still made he didn't get the role: