I don't care much for Hillary Clinton.
— Greg Gutfeld
No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.
A troll's life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.
If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?
Trump has manufactured the first-ever Celebrity Immunity Bubble - rendering him incapable of offense, no matter whom he offends. It's brilliant.
I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.
'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow - and then when it's over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.
Thanks to an immersive lifestyle that involves Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we've created a psychological three-sided mirror for our social impact on others.
At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.
My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium.
Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.
I hate 'Rolling Stone' - because I loved it so much. I had the 'Cheap Tricks' cover and the Clash cover on my wall for years, and I just hate what happened to it. It just became the smarmy grad student that sits next to you on the bus.
I've done two shows every day for years, but I don't think I could work on just one show a week. I would go crazy, and I would drive everybody nuts. I've got to feel like I'm under pressure.
Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.
Here is a fact: If Facebook were a religion, it will be the third largest behind Islam and Christianity. Its success is rooted and capitalizing on the human desire to bond.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.
Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.
Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.
We are all better served by objectively diagnosing trolls so they can change.
It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.
Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator's insecurities - using the deep desire to be liked or noticed by Trump as a method to keep their criticism of him tamped down.
I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.
FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.
If you can have a skewed sense of your body, it stands to reason you could develop the same kind of thing about your relationships with others in a social network.
Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic figure, he'd wander the set like a cherubic, more likable Jim Morrison. His songs would be all over KFRC - the way Boz Scaggs ruled for one summer with 'Silk Degrees.'
The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.
It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.
I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republicans on who, I guess, were unclear about what Stewart was up to, and while Jon Stewart was being nice, he was building a case for drowning them.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.
2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.
Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations - sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.
Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.
How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.
I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.
Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.
The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the street! The good: nothing physical erupts; the bad: there are no brakes to stop it.
Work together. Do not purge your allies because of purity.
Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows.
Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.
Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.
The girls I dated liked or disliked me, whether I weighed 140 or 150; and six-pack abs had no relevance on their love or repulsion.
I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.
If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
I don't think Trevor Noah got his job by being a conservative.
In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.
Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.
