Most of the Oscar voters in 1977 weren’t 10 year olds.

If you don’t get Starship Troopers, you probably don’t get satire. Sorry.

Kind of an overreaction. The Deutschlandlied is not a “Nazi era” song. It is a 19th century song, and the first verse was originally meant as a liberal call for provincial Prussians, Hanoverians, Saxons, Bavarians, Tyrolians, Silesians, etc. to put the idea of “Germany” - at the time a cultural concept, not a country…

The Boston metro area is the 6th largest in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. Because New Englanders are incredibly provincial and don’t like change, the “city of Boston” is stuck in basically the same geographic size as it was in the 18th century, and doesn’t even include towns like Cambridge,…

Toxic clams from the polluted Gulf of Mexico? No thanks.

I have been going to Pats games since 1976. Compared to a lot of NFL franchises, Pats fans really didn’t have it that bad. The Pats were never great, but we fielded great teams at least once a decade (76/85/96), appeared in two Super Bowls, and were robbed of one in 1976, and got to watch exciting players like Mike…

The Pats will be at least competitive as long as Kraft is the owner. They were already a fairly regular playoff team in the 1990s in the Parcells/Caroll eras. Kraft knows how to hire good people, and stay out of the way. In the modern NFL some owners care about winning (Kraft, the Rooneys, the Maras), some just…

The South has gorgeous weather? There is a reason the South was an economic backwater before the invention of air conditioning.

The truth of course is that New England is, by far, the best part of America. The best educated, most creative and most moral population in America, with the lowest divorce rate and lowest crime in the country. Patriots hatred I can understand, but anyone who hates New England has allied themselves with the Trump…

“invade” Iraq? We never left. There are still at least 5000 US troops on the ground.

Tom Brady the football player can hold any political views he likes. Doesn’t bother me, I will still root for the Patriots. Tom Brady, endorser of products, can go fuck himself, and I think it is fine to let Under Armour, Uggs, and Movado know how you feel.

No. Soy sauce does not need to be refrigerated.

I am from New Hampshire. You do not put real maple syrup in the refrigerator. That is just plain stupid.

Actually, Hitler did need help from the Russians to gain power. Moscow told the German Communist Party not to make cooperate with the Social Democrats in the 1932 elections, which gave the Nazis their opening. Stalin thought Germany moving to the far right would wipe out the moderate German left and create the…

Hitler was also a germophobe, and also enjoyed being peed on (and the occasional Cleveland Steamer). At least those were the rumors in 1920s Munich. Just sayin’.

England are notoriously not strong, and haven’t been for some time. Their performance in the Euros was an utter embarassment. They have maybe one player in the top 100 - Harry Kane - and he hasn’t exactly shone in international play. The US needs to measure itself against countries that have decent homegrown players…

Everyone interesting prefers a scramble band to an earnest Midwestern or Southern marching band that thinks their formations, tacky uniforms and crappy renditions of Souza and pop tunes are somehow entertaining. And some of America’s comedy geniuses actually did write for the Yale and Harvard scramble bands.

What are you talking about?

The Patriots basically have played the same teams the Jets, Bills and Dolphins have played. Somehow the Jets haven’t found the schedule that easy.

I noticed the absence of a number of artsy movies that were actually good and possibly could have a wider appeal - The Lobster, Paterson and Toni Erdmann (the best German film of the last few years), among many others.