It’s bad out there. I recently sold a car privately, and got a fair a amount of scammy-sounding offers from CL. One spooky one claimed he needed to immediately drive several hundred miles “to a funeral” so could I meet him somewhere TODAY to take several thousand dollars in cash?

There’s been enough weird crap with electronic voting that we should be doing some form of auditing anyway. Ohio always seems crooked for Republicans — the look on Karl Rove’s face last time sure looked like someone who thought he knew the results ahead of time.

Watch last year’s Black Mirror Christmas special with Jon Hamm., especially “Part II.” Maybe with a friend. :\

I dislike Hillary as much as any Democrat I know, but I see a pretty leap to reach the conclusion that Hillary “almost” committed a felony or put the nation at risk with her email. Of all the things she may or may not have done, why would anyone be most offended by that? She took her cues from not one, but two…

People who secretly resent nods to cultural sensitivity have trouble understanding context. They think it’s hypocrisy to differentiate between people condemning the actual use of some offensive term to seriously discussing its use because they think the argument is that “words” are inherently good or bad, rather than…

I’m so tired of the “you must be ruthless to survive” ethos of this show. No sliver of hope or collective endeavor (outside of fighting) ever succeeds; it’s the cruelest and most violent strategies that work.

A lot of pop culture right now seems to be reflecting fear of ourselves or elements of society taking on godlike powers over others.

1. “Jost was not ribbing his viewers with the idea that Hillary Clinton lost because Democrats focus too much on the intricacies of identity—which would have been fine, we can laugh at ourselves”

No, but the fact that no more of them voted for Trump (less actually) than for prior Republicans suggests that there was no special level of racism or stupidity responsible for Trump.

In the end, a ham sandwich could have beaten Trump, and we put up the most disliked Democrat to ever run.

You know, I thought that too, and that IS Trump’s demo, but those people vote Republican every time. We can say that they failed to reject Trump, but outside of a few areas like rural Pennsylvania, no new ones signed up in droves to vote for an extra-repulsive Republican, and fewer voted for him than for McCain or…

We can thank the DNC while we’re at it. They fought like badgers to put the son of a big contributor on the ballot, despite his fake resume and odd habit of voting with Republicans. Republican lite loses to Republican Classic every time.

Reid and Schumer have nothing to say about this situation, unless maybe “We’re sorry” occurs to them, which it won’t. They methodically snuffed out every flutter of progressivism in the Democratic Party and stuffed The Most Qualified Unelectable Candidate in History down our collective throats.

Yep. Trump likes yelling on television. $400k a year won’t cover his housekeeping bill, and he doesn’t have the ambition or attention span to do the job. It won’t be surprising at all if he simply resigns, ala Sarah Palin, at some point, to pursue other things.

Sorry, but it’s likewise not true to imply that “racism” is the reason we got Trump. We lost because Hillary was a terrible, unelectable candidate. Trump got fewer votes than McCain or Romney. A ham sandwich could have crushed him.

Seems to me “downsizing” has worked just fine, but like everything else, delivers diminishing returns as you continue. My last two cars have been two liter 4 cylinders making north of 200hp with tricks like variable valve and cam profiles and turbocharging, while weighed down with increased safety features, and…

Isn’t the critical difference whether art is consciously reflecting social ills vs. unconsciously perpetuating them?

A little more reading on this particular woman indicates she is probably ill.

We will be turning in or 2011 Sportwagen TDI and are satisfied with the proposed settlement, provided it pays out as advertised. It’s well over book value, even taking “diesel gate” into account, so the payments on a new car of similar price will be substantially lowered. Considering that most consumer class-action…

Jeepers!