A "special interest" is one I do not share. One I do share is "the public good".

A rock 'n' roll songwriter and performer who had Urban Dictionary pegged before it existed. Some of the same factors that made UD what it is may also have led Reed into self-destructive substance abuse at one phase of his career.

A quality that one would conclude, from browsing through Urban Dictionary and other websites, has died out of the world.

A form of self-worship, which permits dishonest politicians to persuade the people to surrender their liberties and even act against their own material interests. See example for details. Often a trait of people who have not themselves contributed to their country anything much that is positive, but are trying to derive honor vicariously. (I except from this definition the actions of combat veterans who sincerely believed, rightly or wrongly, that they were fighting for their country.)

To ruin something by discovering it for the white people. From Cristóbal Colón. who opened the Western Hemisphere to conquest in 1492.

The class ring of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. Of gold alloy, it bears a relief representation of the school's mascot, the beaver, chosen because it is an engineering animal.

Originally, satire was a literary form in which the author used irony, sarcasm, and allied rhetorical devices to express indignation against perceived social vices, follies, or oppressions, and to hold the perpetrators up to ridicule and contempt. In the heyday of the National Lampoon, satire meant calling somebody an asshole. Currently, it consists of people submitting definitions to Urban Dictionary in which they call each other gay, retarded, or both.