Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Everybody saw this coming.

Bark louder, little dog.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Second rate reporter says what?

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

Cole is on a roll !

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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  2. 2.

    Keith P.

    I’ve got Nickelback and even Staind (worst band on the radio IMO) in my collection after getting a secondhand hard drive. I don’t believe in deleting data so I still have them in spite of never playing them. I feel dirty as well.

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    Splitting Image

    Nickelback hatred is completely hipster at this point. I hated them before most Americans even knew they existed.

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    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    It’s ok Cole, I still can’t quit Alice in Chains. I’m a grown man now, sort of, and I oughtta know better, but that sludgy guitar work and the harmonized vocals still get me every damn time.

    Hollow

  6. 6.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @Splitting Image: Nickelback hate has moved well past hipster and into cliche at this stage. Makes me wonder if there’s a Slate essay out there defending their artistic vision.

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    Betty Cracker

    It’s probably a leftover from your wingnut days. You’re a changed man, and for the better. It would be beyond churlish to hold that against you.

  8. 8.

    lockewasright

    I catch so much crap for being a music snob (read: for failing to be adequately indiscriminate), but this never happens to me.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @Splitting Image: Amusingly, the article gushes about how much money they make with their ‘by the numbers’ approach. Doesn’t really touch the aesthetic question much. I suppose it’s nice to know he can laugh at himself, but that doesn’t make them less shitty.

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    RepubAnon

    Not to worry, the Nickelback detritus was probably planted by the NSA as a means of discrediting you…

    (Darn, the only tinfoil left in the house is on the leftover turkey.)

    ;)

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    kindness

    Just tell anyone you were loaded when you bought it John. You had to be. You wanted to hear ‘Rockstar’.

  18. 18.

    Woodrowfan

    eh, it’s too cliche to hate them. they have a couple good songs. So does Staind. Alice in Chains had good stuff too. If you like it, listen to it

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    RobertB

    I’ve got Woodrowfan’s back up there. Silver Side Up is a pretty decent album. In fact, it’s so good that Nickelback made it four more times.

    If you put Alice In Chains in the same sentence as Nickelback, you should just throw your iPod away and listen to AM talk radio.

    Staind…I like a few Staind songs. Aaron Lewis is a hardcore Tea Party type. There’s an interesting subject there about, “How do you deal with music you like, from musicians that you don’t?”

  22. 22.

    Woodrowfan

    Aaron Lewis is a hardcore Tea Party type. There’s an interesting subject there about, “How do you deal with music you like, from musicians that you don’t?”

    ARGH!!!!!! Really? Damn. I tossed out my Ted Nugent albums. OK, small loss musically, but still.

    Well, I didn;t say AiC and NB were equally as good. ;P

  23. 23.

    cmorenc

    @John Cole:

    Hey, it could have been worse: you could have found some Captain and Tenille in your collection.

  24. 24.

    Keith P

    @RobertB: I even hatd Staind before I heard that Aaron Lewis was Tea Party. What did it for me was the time the radio played an acoustic version of “Epiphany”. It sounded like a college open mic night performance….just Lewis painfully – PAINFULLY – hitting chords on his guitar while doing what sounded like a bad Eddie Vedder parody. The DJ even apologized for playing it. Then I found out there are actually people out there with tattoos of him (ballcap included)! Makes me wonder what planet I landed on.

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    BruceFromOhio

    Gaia, wtf is with people? Cole, there are far worse things you can find on your hard drive than a Nickelback mp3 file. It’s music. Just like food, beer, wine, whiskey, movies, books, fashion, sex, modern art, automobiles and interior decorating, every one has stuff they like and stuff they do not like. So I despise the Sex Pistols and love Bowie, can’t fucking stand to here another note of Lou Reed, and will crank up Foreigner as loud as Smashing Pumpkins, so and what. Nickelback, Staind, Alice in Chains, Hootie and the Blowfish, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, Imagine Dragons, Rush, Van Halen, Boston, find something you hate and don’t listen to it already.

    Or vice-versa.

    ETA: If it was Men Without Hats ‘Safety Dance,’ then I’d be worried.

  27. 27.

    Hunter

    Hating Nickelback is a cliche. Add in a dash of drama queen and you’ve got this post.

    I’ll give you the same response I gave a “music critic” at the rag I used to work for: You may not like what they do, but they do it very well.

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