There's a whole handful of topics about which I apparently have to have a massive argument with a stranger about once a year or so like clockwork. It includes the metric system, the designated hitter, the sorry state of American railroads, the Beatles, the whole "Irish" part of Notre Dame football, the use of "party" as a verb, and the deplorable mascot of DC's NFL team. (And, I'm sure, others.) Fortunately it's usually just some poor idiot at a bar. Unfortunately last year's Redskins rant happens to be immortalized forever in the VN archives. Good times.