Did the election teach you anything about false equivalency and whataboutism?

I wouldn’t say that the 20 million people who got health insurance for the first time, or the 15 million who found jobs, or the middle class workers who saw the biggest year-over-year earnings jump in history, were screwed by Obama.

Counterpoint: blimps are dick.

I see no particular reason to respect the office of the President when its current inhabitant doesn’t do the same.

Came here to write the same thing. Silver harped endlessly in the run-up to the election that Clinton was spending too much time in states that were out of reach and not paying enough attention to the Midwest. The day of the election, he said that there were three equally likely possibilities: Clinton in a blowout,…

“(If the average American household earned $9,000 more per year, Donald Trump would not be president, I wager.)”

Remember when we were all told we should be very upset at Hillary Clinton’s terrible conflicts of interest, because she got paid to give speeches, her daughter is married to a guy in finance, and banks gave money to the Clinton Foundation?

I was going to ask the same thing.

I disagree. This gives them plenty of time to win before the 20100's are over.

Two sports radio stations in Boston: on 98.5, all the talk was about Peyton’s romantic postgame embrace of his sponsors; and on 93.7, all the talk was about Donald Trump. (Highlight: “Is there anything Trump could say that would be the third rail and actually hurt him?” “Maybe if he said something racist.” “[THUMP]”…

How long before the good folks at RedState are posting photos of Lamar Odom as proof that Trayvon Martin was actually 6’10”?

This is such an obvious point, it’s remarkable that it even needs to be made. Throw a brick off a building’s roof, and you could be charged with murder if it hits someone in the head, or suffer no consequences whatsoever if it hits the ground instead. There’s a reason that we have different crimes for murder and…

Absolutely - but there was also mass systemic slavery in 1820-1864, which was also ranked ahead of the not-as-many-slaves-in-the-dominant-economies 1440-1819 period. And, frankly, I’m not so sure that being a serf in the late middle ages was all that much better than Roman slavery.

You cannot possibly tell me that it would be better to live in 1442 than it would be to live in ancient Rome. Possibly functioning sewer systems, roads, literacy, written penal codes, trials by jury, etc.

I went to high school (very old, very British) with Stevens; he was a few years behind me and I remember him well. My senior year (equivalent), the senior winter play was Macbeth, and Stevens, then in what would have been ninth grade, got the lead. He was already the size of the seniors, and he stalked around the…

Nader voters for BLM against Sanders!

Unfortunately, tens of thousands of actual New Yorkers have to go to Times Square every day for work.

This is not “slightly distorted info.” This is specifically reporting that a dozen balls were at a specific pressure, which was wildly wrong. That’s called “lying.”

What a bitchy statement by Mortensen. He’s been the centerpiece of the story since the beginning - his tweet is what elevated it from “The Colts are whining after getting blown out” to “The Patriots are CHEATERS! Look, they deflated all of the balls by 20%!!”, and was outright false - and his reporting remains the…

The “irreparable injury” standard here is trivial. Brady is a (shortly) 38-year-old quarterback, being asked to miss what’s likely a tenth or more of the remaining games he’s able to play in his career. The only question is whether they can show a likelihood of success on the merits, but it’s a balancing test anyway -…