I don’t disagree Stone has a point of view, or that people should draw their conclusions from multiple sources, but if you saw the series you know it’s far from being any kind of sensational or one-sided rant. Most of what’s presented comes with primary source quotes, contemporaneous film clips, and so forth.

Oliver Stone’s American History series on Netflix dives into the question of using the bomb pretty deeply, and it does not look good for Truman, et al.

Is anyone else just not buying the “Russia hacked the election” program being rolled out? No one known to be involved in the *two separate* hacks of the DNC and Podesta says Russia was involved, but somehow MSNBC and Newsweek have leapt right to “Putin personally ordered this, for the purpose of electing Trump, and it…

I thought a lot of this traced back to the Ukraine, where the U.S. backed a government takeover to oust a Putin-friendly regime. Then Putin out-maneuvered us / flat-out took over. Then we sanctioned the hell out of Russia as though all of that had come out of nowhere. Now Syria’s a proxy-war for influence in the…

Good for Tesla for acknowledging this shortcoming and moving to address it.

Yikes. Sorry, Mixon’s the bad guy here. Respect to all the theories about “anything goes when you put your hands on someone,” (it actually doesn’t — could he have shot her?) but nothing in the video justifies smashing her jaw to smithereens. He wasn’t in fear of anything but embarrassment.

(Anybody want a peanut?)

The cranberry sauce recipe on the back of most bags of cranberries is simple, easy to get right, and blows the jellied stuff out of the water. It’s been our required bring along dish at family gatherings since my wife and I started making it.

It’s not a matter of the goodness of VW’s heart. The settlement is reasonable, and there’s every indication VW is doing what it said it would. Don’t like the settlement? Bring your own suit and keep the car or strip the car or whatever you want. Turning in a stripped car and demanding the payout as well looks…

Agree. We have a turn-in TDI and I feel like the settlement was in good faith, so why not be nice about it? People are getting a useful amount of money. Grab the floor mats if you want, but stripping it just looks childish. I won’t blame VW if they push back on this idea.

So much for the hope that Trump is “post ideological.” He doesn’t understand ideology and can’t articulate one, but he sure seems determined to have ideological extremists run the country.

No one hates liberal Democrats more than conservative Democrats.

Or, maybe next time someone will field a candidate whose most appealing attribute is not “not being Donald Trump.”

The Presidency is nothing like running a business. For starters, a business is selfish, looking only to make money. A President owes a duty to the collective good of the citizens. Something we can already see Trump does not understand. If anything, business tycoons are less qualified, because their entire mindset is…

I believe Trump is the first with zero experience in either government OR the military.

Of course it’s not “the will of the people.” The popular vote did not elect Trump, not by a long shot. The idea of the EC is to tweak the democratic process. If we don’t agree with it, that’s fine, but as it stands it offsets weighted voting with the power of electors to shun a wildly unqualified candidate.

The EC is not a person from whom we need a favor. It’s a legal mechanism crafted to work in a certain way, and part of that mechanism is that it’s supposed to allow electors to prevent a horribly unqualified person from sweeping into power despite geographically weighted voting.

Wait just a minute now. We either have an Electoral College, or we don’t. A lot of people think we should modify or eliminate it for a more truly “democratic” process, and that’s fine, but you work with the system you have, not the one you wish you had.

The M.C. Turing Test?