Cookie_Monster: "Isn't it right wing who conflate cronyism with free market capitalism? Every time someone try to regulate cronyism, right leaps up to ardently defend free market capitalism, as if they same thing. Reason cronyism is so rampant in this country is because GOP will move heaven and earth to prevent, say,…

"Take your capitalist propaganda out of our Lego Movie comment thread."

Well, aren't you pleasant?

Or maybe Fox News made the same mistake as many on the Left; namely, conflating cronyism with free market capitalism.
In any case, whoda thunk that The Lego Movie (of all things) would be the pop culture phenomenon that united liberals and conservatives.

Conservative web site The Federalist is celebrating the Lego Movie as "an ad for personal responsibility, individual choice, meaningful work, natural constraints, the dignity of the individual and the fight against a government that desires control of the lives of citizens."

Beautifully stated.

I still say this line jokingly in casual conversation. Invariably, nobody knows what it's from, and my wife looks vaguely uncomfortable.

But, but, but…that's not The Narrative!

And your joke would've prevented that?

TheGhostOfDBoonsGhost: "stealing my youth"

Oh, yeah, scissor! Scissor me timbers!!

They give black people jobs in Charleston? How regressive!

Hey, UninvitedChristopherGuest, what's the difference between a Jew and a pizza?

I think it's pretty fucking callous and small-minded to make ironic jokes about any hardcore murderous dictatorship, whether Nazi Germany or the Khmer Rouge.

Horrific Prison Torture State Played for Laughs by AV Club Hipsters, Part CCXLVIII

I used to not really get what was so important about Bowie. Then when I was 30, I saw the Ziggy Stardust 1973 (?) concert film in a tiny art house theater in Paris, on a whim. (This was 2002, I was there for a week for my honeymoon.) The print was old and scratched up, and the sound system was what you'd expect in an…

You're right—how dare I insinuate that modern Western liberals are anything but pure-hearted angel-babies. They would NEVER offer apologia for the historical crimes of the International Left, or tacitly promote (sometimes by omission) the inaccurate notion that most genocides were perpetrated by "right-wing" regimes.

"Unlike other modern genocides, the Indonesian killings were committed mostly one by one; individuals were strangled or beheaded, had their throats cut, or were simply beaten to death."

ICP are often great, and always at least interesting—if you are capable of setting aside your terror at finding out you actually appreciate what they do, thereby incurring the wrath of elitist dickhead nobodies. They fully embody the DIY ethic that hipsters and punks claim to embrace. When they (as 20-year-old ghetto…

ICP are often great, and always at least interesting—if you are capable of setting aside your terror at finding out you actually appreciate what they do, thereby incurring the wrath of elitist dickhead nobodies. They fully embody the DIY ethic that hipsters and punks claim to embrace. When they (as 20-year-old ghetto…