I am one of the people who would actually prefer that outcome to the alternative, so I wish you were right. But I don’t think you’re right. It’s been a while since Democrats swept a midterm, but only because a Democrat has been in the White House for all midterms in the past decade — and midterms punish the party in…

Like what? You can’t impeach a guy for being belligerent. And you can’t 25th Amendment him for being a nincompoop.

I always thought it was because her first role was as Wesley Crusher’s girlfriend, and so it was hate-by-association. (Even though she was actually fantastic in that episode.)

These are the same arguments the NRA uses to oppose any kind of gun control. Since they are bad arguments there, I tend to think they are bad arguments here as well.

“Don’t wrap your entire life around one piece of culture, until your identity is indistinguishable from it. Think twice before making the characters your avatar and screenname, or comparing absolutely everything to this one piece of culture. Love it, recommend it, point out all the ways it’s excellent, but don’t let…

At the Supreme Court level, stays and other procedural rulings are normally per curiam. It would be unusual to see a dissent on this. It would be particularly unusual to see an opinion attached to the dissent. It would be EXTREMELY unusual to see a concurring opinion responding to it.

Could we... not? Trump is a misogynist guilty of sexual violence (by his own admission!), and I’m no fan of DeVos, either, but the Obama directives seriously eroded the basic due process rights for people accused of rape... and, as Emily Yoffe recently showed, for rape victims themselves as well. They aren’t helping.…

My wife is a big A.V. Club fan, and told me that I should go find someone named “Rappin’ Jake Sisko” now that you have all moved over here. Where might I find “Rappin’ Jake Sisko”’s treasured comments in your new layout?

These violent delights have violent ends.

I think if you’re the villain in the marriage, and you know that, you should *never* be the one who says, “Let’s get a divorce.” Because what if the other party really doesn’t want a divorce? What if you’ve just blown up the last good thing she had, the thing that was her rock despite all the suck? And what about the…

Based on the description in the article, I very much doubt this was an intended effect of the measure. Indeed, I’m not even convinced that the bill *has* the effect the ACLU claims it does. It will be interesting to see what the Arkansas Attorney General’s office says in response.

“I stand with The Bible and Scriptures that make some things pretty clear... For me, the whole LGBT/etc. is an insult to your parents and family lineage... if you choose that life unto death... it ends there... forever with a fiery pit of hell waiting for you in eternity. Plus, men and women are designed to be…

I don’t think this is a very good way of understanding religious belief or “faith.” I know you didn’t originate this idea, and, indeed, an awful lot of people who profess religion deploy “faith” as an excuse to avoid justifying their beliefs... but when the Catholic Church calls “faith” a virtue, it isn’t saying that…

So you also boycotted Bioshock, then?

“That’s how we can become just like the right we demonize.” 

Nice work! I once spent two weeks locked in a room with the NSFG parsing its statistics on contraceptive use, so I got familiar with some of these statistics just by proximity— and I know what a bear it can be to comb through them. (That codebook!)

Do you really think we wouldn’t be in the same place, impeachment-wise, if Clinton were in office instead? I sure do.

This worked for Pope Benedict IX.

“the gospels always portrayed Jesus as being not a fan of the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, religious purist types.” 

The Marist poll is nevertheless one of the most highly-regarded in the country. It’s in the Top 10 in Nate Silver’s pollster database.