Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.
Greg Gutfeld
For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.
It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows.
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 truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.
In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.
Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.
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.
At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.
We are all better served by objectively diagnosing trolls so they can change.
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 don't care much for Hillary Clinton.
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?
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.
When I imagine my viewer - and it sounds saccharine - but it's a family thing. People in line for my books came as families.
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.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.
I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.
I don't think Trevor Noah got his job by being a conservative.
I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.
There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.
For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
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.
As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.
Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.
Here is the problem with legacy: You'll sacrifice stuff that is not even yours to get it. Take President Obama's Iran deal, when he gave the shirt off his back - and ours, too.
Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.
If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.
Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.
An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.
The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.
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.
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.
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.
As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.
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.
The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.
By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.
I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.
I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.
Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.
