and then flogged mightily & well with Marshal Pétain's biography.

And hey, y'all! If there's ever another flood, I PROMISE I'll unlock the doors of Lakewood and let y'all in. My bad on that Katrina thing! No hard feelins, y'all. It was just that y'all were so . . . I dunno . . . DIRTY and POOR and woulda really messed up the Jesus sanctuary.

The irony.

I say an adult playing with silverware *in a really serious way* at a dinner table is so deeply weird.

I agree with your distaste of Fox, but you're being hypocritical about free thinking. That's the problem in the US: we cannot tolerate others' freedom of expression. Fox is pure propaganda, but I get to disregard it because I'm educated and can think critically. That's the deal.

Not feeling a ton of sympathy for their crushed souls tbh

You do not want to see those three on the other side.