Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]

Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes “attractive and successful African-American”) and I’d be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.

The obvious joke here is “If that substance is being marketed as ‘beer’, and if we’ve all agreed to tolerate this, then we’re already on level 2.”

People make fun of a video of someone’s toddler only eating the very tippy-tops of strawberries. They recommend a healthy dose of beatings.

The internet really is exactly the same in every language, isn’t it.

If the USSR wanted to keep workers in, that means it understood that it couldn’t function without them. Does your current country act like it understands this?

Bob and Linda Belcher. Healthiest marriage in the history of American television.

Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that’s the best you can hope for.

“I should not have written this story.” -Ayn Rand

Sorry if I’m misreading your third paragraph but I’m not sure if balkanization along strictly racial lines is either practical or desirable, except possibly to Turner Diaries types.

Why should we destroy Canada? It can be reformed in ways the United States cannot be.

What are you basing that on? IMHO the first thing that’s going to happen if the US balkanizes is the Canadian government announces that Canada is willing to serve as a lifeboat for the American ruling elite.

[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]

[It begins leaking]

What in the goddamn

So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?

What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you’re renovating a basement?

And maybe a Roma state somewhere east-southeast of there.

In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of “Spontaneous Councilism” (Opossum’s Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I’m pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen’s fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.

Finland

Oh.

The truth is that life on farms from the Atlantic Seaboard to California bore little resemblance to the nostalgic ideal suggested by contemporary imaginings of the family farm. […] Camps, bunkhouses, lodges, taverns, and saloons were spaces rife with intimate and sexual relations that directly contravened dominant middle-class notions of sexual propriety: homosexuality, sexual barter and commerce, public and semi-public sex, and cross-dressing and gender fluidity.

If HBO made a show about this I would probably watch it.