Burrito Boy

Okay. Sorry for jumping to conclusions again. Personally, I would set the spectrum at 0-500, but otherwise I think we're good here.

Is your emphasis on the word actual a sarcastic reference to my saying "actual Nazis" in a previous post? I used that phrase because you used the word Nazi in your earlier post, not the term Neo-Nazi. I assumed you were using the word the way it's used so often recently--as a slur against anybody with opposing views. It seems like everybody is a Nazi these days. There are soup Nazis, grammar Nazis, and so on. Then you have people calling the president Hitler. George Bush is Hitler. Barack Obama is Hitler. Donald Trump is Hitler. The words Nazi and Hitler have been thrown around so much in recent years that they're losing their meaning and belittling the enormity of what the Nazis did. Which is why I made the distinction between "Nazis" as the word is commonly used and "actual Nazis". It was stupid of me not to realize Neo-Nazis were also involved when the KKK was present and I apologize for assuming that you were using the word Nazi simply as a pejorative. However, if you were making a sly attempt at insulting me, I'd appreciate it if you would stop.

I thought about that after I posted. Not only about Stalin but also Pol Pot.

I never said that they are. I simply stated that black supremacist groups exist.

I can agree that actual Nazis were their own special category. The Holocaust qualifies them for that. I will not put white supremacists in a special category when there are also black supremacist groups. They may not have the same history that the KKK has but the ideology is similar. Racism is not exclusive to whites.

When you're going through a crisis, I stay on the phone with you for hours, listening to you and giving you advice. When I'm having a hard time you "let me go so I can keep processing what I'm processing". Why are we still friends?

The fact that we do these things to each other is a good point. Both sides have their problems. When I read comments on Facebook (Yeah, I know I should never read the comments.), it isn't just liberals talking trash about conservatives or just conservatives talking trash about liberals. People on both sides throw around insults like "snowflake" and several people think that the childish misspelling of Trump and Obama's names is clever. And neither side is innocent of violence. We all know the history of the KKK. Their legacy is a brutal one of lynching and murder. Then, as Michael Hopcroft mentioned, you have people shooting at Black Lives Matter protesters. On the other hand, you have Black Lives Matter protesters chanting that they want dead cops and the ambush and murder of five police officers during a BLM protest in Dallas. And you have Antifa calling for violence against Trump suporters. As DShomshak said, it's become hard to tell which side is which.

Which song do you think is more popular?

Damn. Beat me to it.

Brain

Clemenstein ("Oh My Darling, Clementine" and Frankenstein)

Babatar (Babar crossed with Avatar.)

I tried to get into both of those shows and they were terrible. One episode of each was more than enough for me.

One of the greatest comforts in life is knowing that all those hours of listening to Hendrix weren't wasted. He didn't mean to take up all my sweet time. He'll give it right back to me one of these days.

[Pedantic nerd]Robocop is a cyborg. [/Pedantic nerd]

Even Bender? Even Marvin? Even Wall-E? Even Robby? Even Gort? Even Johnny Five? (I could do this all day but I'll stop now for the sake of everyone's sanity.)

I can't believe I just defended Al Gore! But since I was defending his right to free speech and not what he actually says, I can sleep easy tonight.

Courtesy of autocorrect: Dalmatian Alley.

"One good thing about having a bad hip is that I kind of walk like John Wayne now."

I went dumpster diving today and salvaged a few hundred feet of barbed wire.

High five! Hmmm. We've agreed on a couple of things lately. Could it be that we were separated at birth? Could our rivalry be... sibling rivalry?

I think Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are hacks. I've only read one Asimov short story that I liked--"The Bicentennial Man"--and one Asimov novel that I liked--The Caves of Steel. I haven't read anything by Clarke that I enjoyed. In fact, 2061: Odyssey Three is on my list of worst books ever because Clarke takes some amazing ideas and makes them dull and boring. More recently, I don't get the hype surrounding Neil Gaiman. I loved the movie Stardust so I decided to read the book. I got two or three pages in before the stilted writing style overwhelmed me and I had to run to the bathroom to puke. Seems to me that he's another writer with great ideas and poor execution.

Abstinence is the only way of making sure you don't get infected by this show.

Clay