“Poking fun at cultural differences”=/ “punching down” This is a red-herring and when people make this argument it sets up a thousand “how can we be punching down at a population this significantly better educated and affluent than the general population” arguments. If there is a problem with Apu, its not because the…

See I don’t think “punching down” is really what this is about. It’s really about when (if ever) is it okay to poke fun at cultural differences. If this were about “punching down” Cletus would be more offensive than Apu. Cletus is the character stuck in poverty who has to eat road kill to make ends meet.

“Canadian Americans”? What is that? I mean, I can figure it out that they are people that can trace their family back to Canada, but wouldn’t they be one of the other categories instead?

Nic Cage as the Joker would be perfect.

Got ‘em!

I almost agree 100% with this except... there is nothing humble about the waffle fry. Waffle fries are the Ric Flair of fried potatoes. Stylin’ and profilin’! Woooooo!

That is the most impressive forehead that I have seen today.

There was longstanding idea that as long as you made fun of everybody, you were in the clear. It seems like that’s not really true anymore. I don’t know where I come on on this one. I definitely see both sides. I wish we were in a place where everyone understood that it is possible to gently mock those that we love…

That’s a bootable offense!

I think Brooklyn residents just naturally think that when an obvious idea comes to them, they must have been the first ones to think of it. As you mentioned, Chuck E Cheese has had alcohol (and drunken brawls) forever. Here in Milwaukee, I think pretty much all of the trampoline parks and bounce-house places serve…

I always thought Frank was the worst, and Genevieve and Vern were the best.

We own a banana holder and I’ve never looked at it the same way since. Literally every time I see it, I say that line in my head. 

“if these major brands all collude to raise pork prices in the US then all pork goes up in the US.”

That’s not how it works. Individual farms don’t get to set pork prices on a whim. Markets set the prices. If I have lost buyers, I still have excess product. I can’t just sell at a higher price to make up the difference, because there are thousands of other farmers that would also need to jack up their prices.…

Hold on there. So a lower demand means higher prices? It’s been decades since I took Econ 101, but I’m pretty sure that is not how it works.

Who?

He’s no Longfellow.

Like I said: when I was growing up we bounced between free and reduced lunch depending on the tax year. That was not my experience at all. I can’t disprove anything you say, but my inclination is that in those scenarios something else is going on that is not just lack of money.

They are talking about kids with slacker parents that forget to put money in the kids accounts. As a former free and reduced lunch kid myself: no children in America are denied food because they can’t afford it.