"All these girls are grown girls, but they sure dont act like it. They are all imature and need to grow up. I hope yall aren't planning on starting a family, because your kids would grow up in a mean world."

and

"this really isn't funny. the question wasen't to identify the US. obviously i could do that. what is with yu girls these days. why do yall feel like you have to be mean to other people to make yourself feel better.your not hurting anyone but yourself. i dont care about your little messages. they dont hurt me. so leave me alone and live your own life. stop trying to change myn."

...I'd agree more if you found a "stupid/silly broad comment" made by the same people who don't like silly comments. See, the internet is a pretty large place. You can find an upswell of any sentiment you like. All the same, it's very disingenuous to take comments form a bunch of idiots on YouTube and then attribute it to your average Salon reader.

When every Black person in the country is on their best behavior at all times...at all times...only then will individual Black people be worthy of equal treatment under the law.

(Honestly, whenever this line of reasoning comes up, I want to propose that we all start judging White people based on Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee, and Courtney Love. "Man, White people love hard drugs and sex!")

Even many progressive fans will oppose a change because that implies that something was wrong in the first place. People worry that admitting any sort of misstep in the area of race is equivalent to being a card carrying member of the KKK. That kind of absolutist thinking is probably the biggest obstacle to honest dialog about race in the US. Newsflash: you can be a good person and a smart person and say/do something racially insensitive. It happens to the best of us (even us Black folk). How can anyone see Soul Plane and not think we have a ways to go? Now don't act like a 3 yr old who broke a vase. Man up, address the situation, and move on.

I have a feeling that if the Steelers used a buck-toothed, bug-eyed, caricature in a set of Dickies, the answer would be yes.

If a discussion continues long enough and one side is able to make a reasoned argument against something, the side that's arguing in favor will strike a disingenuous pose of virtuous misdirection. (e.g. You make a good point about X, but if you really cared about X so much you'd focus all of your attention on Y.)

I think 10% of the comments in this thread attempt that (invalid) argument.

First, does authenticity have anything to do with how the music sounds? How do you feel about the Monkees? The Yardbird's version of "Train Kept a Rollin'?" What about Green Day or Justin Timberlake? Does it have to be "real" for the music to work? I believe the author is thinking in a pre-Like a Virgin mindset.

Christian Bale! He was great in American Psycho...and in Newsies!

...you don't have to know about a topic before applying criticism, but in practice, people don't look to the National Review for reviews of the the new Micheal Moore movie or to Gramophone for a review of the new Kanye West album or to Metal Hammer for a review of a Wynton Marsalis album.

The reason for this is simple. Appreciation of a genre breeds familiarity and vice versa. Where you have neither, you end up with a review that paints in the broadest of strokes and is unsatisfying for those who do have a great deal of familiarity.

I'll admit it, I was a bit of a coward. I reserved my full support until I saw that he was viable and that this could actually work. For that, I thank Iowa.