Perception is reality, and right now Dems are perceived as slaves to the cultural elite from Harvard, Hollywood and Manhattan. The party needs to go in a different, more egalitarian direction — even if it means nominating a candidate in 2008 who isn’t Ivy-educated (shudder!). But do the party honchos have the cojones to try it, or are they worried it will cost them campaign contributions from the techno-elite?

A) My vocab is strong. As steel, but with ice cold blood running through its veins.

B) I forgot to mention that the shark jumping is actually an extended mid-air pause. The Simpsons began the jump during Who Shot Mr Burns. The Jump was completed with the Spinoff Showcase. Just thought I’d resurrect that old chestnut for you.

C) You wound me sir. But then, your utter wrongness about the Simpsons has caused you to lash out, ahem, blindly. I’ll choke back my tears of sadness, and I’ll be back.

D) Did I say “blindingly stupid”? I meant “Entirely evil, subsisting on the souls of the damned”, and also, “pederastic”.

E) But seriously, The Bible Stories episode, the global warming episode, the trip to England, the carney episode, the episode where milhouses’ parents reunited, the episode with Tony Hawk where bart gets emancipated. And end scene.

F) You have me at “haven’t written anything.”

Even if you are blindingly stupid about the Simpsons

Blindingly stupid? I was wondering why you haven’t written anything in almost two months and now we have the answer. Because you were saving all of your energies for the most biting and witty insult in the history of the English language. Bravo, my friend. I stand humbled in the presence of your superior vocabulary.

Even a “bad” episode of the Simpsons is still funny and watchable. With the exception of the occasionally preachy Lisa episodes, I’d be hard pressed to use the word “sucked” to describe any episode of the Simpsons.

In fact, I think I can point out the exact moment – The Simpson’s Spinoff Showcase episode. It’s one of the funniest of all simpson’s episodes, but it ended the last season containing consistently funny episodes, and preceded the first season when, rather than the biting satire they previously exhibited, they instead spent more time either putting the simpsons in wacky situations, or just jiggering about with the established cannon for lack of better ideas.

(See Mrs Crabapple and Principle Skinner romance, Apu marrying, etc for more info).

You could even argue that everything since that episode has literally been a fullfillment of what they “promised” in that episode, only without ironic, knowing intent. (And sadly, without ever revisiting Chief Wiggam, P.I.)Certainly, the next three seasons occasionally had a good episode or two, but the show has been consistently terrible during the entire 2000s. Even the treehouse of horror episodes suck now.

Of course, word up, way up, to everything else you said. Even if you are blindingly stupid about the Simpsons*

*BURN! How ya like me now, G?

It’s a standard way of talking about Democrats – If a guy makes a great, visionary speech – Like Barak Obama, then “he doesn’t have a plan”. If a guy lays out a plan “he doesn’t have a vision” or, still, remarkably “doesn’t have a plan.”

Just like any Democrat is “way out of the mainstream liberal” even when they are WAAY too middle-of-the-road already.

Also, when a Republican takes a stand on something, he’s “standing on principle”, but when a Democrat does, he’s “positioning himself”.

“Munich” is the best-ended Spielberg film in nearly a decade.

It coulda been “War of the Worlds” if he’d taken my idea and ended the movie with a dying E.T. falling out of the tripod.