I had a Dutch friend who told me that they often show cartoons there in English, with Dutch subtitles. So kids are exposed to the sounds of English from the get-go. I don't know if that makes a huge difference, but it seems like it could be a factor. (I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in France, pretty much…

Upvoted, tragically.

I think their beef (genuinely) is that they're frustrated that they have to accept that you guys are human. It's a hard knock life!

Of course. Self-described libertarians acting out of naked self-interest? What on earth was I thinking?

Not long after Team America came out, I recall either Parker or Stone saying that it was being misinterpreted by a lot of people. "America, Fuck Yeah" was in no way a parody: they really meant "America, Fuck Yeah," because as wealthy, white, straight, cis-male Americans they were pretty much the top of the global…

Somewhere along the line, identity politics and social justice turned into the very thing it was meant to be fighting.

No, it is not "one of the." You're flat-out wrong.

"Safe spaces" are described as voluntary places where people can choose to determine which topics or idea are okay, but the actual spaces are not like this in practice.

Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude…

Would I perhaps feel less antipathy towards Trey Parker were it not for this photo where it looks like he's posing for the cover of Douchebro Monthly?

So where's Jello Biafra when we need him?

I don't know if that says anything about Colbert per se; studio audiences went from "enthusiastic" to "slavishly adoring/borderline hysterical" a long time ago. When I used to watch Letterman there came a point when I realized that the audience was giving every single joke in the monologue a round of applause. Every.…

Parker and Stone stand to reap a bigger tax cut from the Republicans than all the money I'll make in my lifetime.

I moved to New York in 1987, having never heard of him, and quickly discovered that he was a "household name" here (along with Leona Helmsley). SPY Magazine (R.I.P.) got me up to speed.

He pulled a Palin.

Pittsburgh, from what I understand.

I'll go with "progressive post-meta arena disco."

They meet cute at Smorgasburg. She's checking out a new line of small-batch, locally sourced quince-teaberry chutneys, while he's listening to a sales spiel about this amazing new Paraguayan hemp-oil beard emollient. They lock eyes, and he says, "Hey, do you know where I can charge my phone around here?"

A lot of people think that, and they're not wrong. But they're still wrong.

C'mon, it's New York. Passive-aggression is our civic religion.