Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.