I like how she's able to do her stuff live even with all the processing that it goes through.

I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords. Maybe they'll finally take care of those pesky fire ants at Cape Canaveral.

Ah well...next year, then.

I don't think enough time has passed to *promote this, but let's give it a try...

*livemusic

*religion

I love the way Bob and David take the premise of a scene and turn it completely on its head.

*rocknroll!

Nice song *parody.

whoops. Sorry 'bout that. *discard

The bike gets the trophy, and the rider has to go stand in the garage.

*wtf

Not every school in the US does this (I don't recall ever having to do it), but it's considered a traditional way to begin the school day. I suppose it's appreciated for its symbolic nature (in that the idea is to have people acknowledge that they want to be good citizens), but I think making kids say it every day in school reduces it to routine and this degrades its (arguably) meaningful symbolic value to that of a dogma. Not to mention that the primary beneficiary of the pledge is not the country itself but an object representing it, which seems unnecessary.

I lived in Germany for a year a few years ago, and I definitely remember that one of the most jarring things about returning to the US was the way people wear their nationalism on their sleeves (so to speak) here. Everywhere you go in this country there are flags and slogans plastered about on cars, houses, t-shirts, you name it. Contrast that with Germany, where the national flag is most frequently found in souvenir shops and perhaps on some government buildings/monuments. It's not as though pride in one's country its citizens is absent from German culture, but it's certainly not paraded around the way it is in America.

I mean, come on! He's got the word ROM in his name! He has to be some kind of robot!

I wonder why everybody looks like they expect the flag to hand them their change.

Good to remind folks that there was a time when it wasn't expected of you to profess in school that the Judeo-Christian God was responsible for your nation's well being.

Republican "humor" - guaranteed to make the angels weep.

Would be considered dead, but for that it's still in the queue.