Yeah. Pretty neat, huh? Actually, I didn't say that I disapprove of all three of those things. No, I only meant to point out that big, loud, silly movies are also quintessentially American. I adore annoying religiosity and diarrhea-inducing foods but I really hate Jazz. Ha, got ya!

Yeah, and Mattel beat the competition's brains out.

A racing stripe I feel would have been pretty sharp.

I almost don't miss the second bubble. Almost.

Is it wrong to not hate the Transformers? I don't love them, but I don't hate them. They are exactly as big, loud and silly as anything else truly American, including Jazz, Evangelical Christianity, and Taco Bell Gorditas.

The "slippery slope" argument against gun control is equally imbecilic. I believe that all laws, and for that matter all of life, is a slippery slope, but fortunately we possess exceptionally effective natural equipment by which to prevent or limit our susceptibility to that treacherous slipperiness, and it comes in…

Ah, fair play.

You're talking about what happened to yourself, right Cookie? You shot a Muppet in Reno just to watch him die.

I would go as far as to assert that guns actually entice you to kill yourself. The virile potency of a glistening hefty firearm is an irresistible temptation to experience the profoundly cathartic release of self actualized projectile induced oblivion.

I didn't risk my life subduing Hessians just to surrender my God given right to impulsively blow my brains out all over the veranda.

That's when I do my best bank robbery plotting, when I'm stopped at red lights on deserted roads.

I think that you think that I'm arguing with you. I'm not. I'm trying to describe the issue in terms of basic primal human processes. Of course guns don't deter violence, they only create the illusion of security. Just as laws often only create the illusion of justice and order, guns are a fantasy, a mirage in which…

I doubt laws against rape prevent rape as much as do heightened awareness, education, and evolved attitudes. Society is learning that forced or coerced sex is a serious emotional and psychological violation. But people with more serious emotional and mental malfunctions will rape regardless of the laws. Same for any…

Guns are a real concern and even a threat, absolutely, but you are 1,000 times more likely to be injured or killed in your own bathroom. I keep a bazooka and hand grenades in my vanity cabinet. I shit in peace.

You shall be well hung. You wish!

Burocracy is always the most effective response to an intangible threat. Ha! I crack myself up.

Those clowns in TSA and HS are such clowns.

Wrong.

If you chose to discount or ignore the unfortunate assistant's own prior sense of danger—almost a premonition—then it isn't about individuality and freewill. But when you consider the fact of her own uncharacteristic concern as expressed to her father the previous evening coupled to the outrageously alarming notice…

Yes, it's unfortunate that people are often cowed or intimidated by the pressure to conform, to not cross lines, to get with the program. But our innate, natural instincts are often accurate and valuable gauges of impending danger. Our subtler senses are too often dismissed or disregarded or denied in favor of cheap,…