What’s interesting is that the law is one profession where a moral code is considered to be a requirement, even if the bar associations hardly ever enforce it. Now they are being confronted with lawyers who are openly admitting to being white supremacist neo-Nazis. What to do, what to do?

Clinton lost because of Russian interference, Comey’s announcement, the media covering her emails more than any other goddamn thing, and the sort of people who like to name check Noam Chomsky ignoring that Chomsky himself said that yes, you absolutely should vote for the lesser of two evils, because if you don’t, you…

People are so ignorant of history that when I pointed out that Hitler only gained power because the conservative establishment embraced him out of fear of his base, thinking he would pivot once he actually was in office only to have him turn out to be worse than they’d ever dreamed, I was called a liar and too dumb to…

When in fact it’s far more expensive, because all that vast entourage has to pay full price for lodging and meals, and he jacked the prices after getting elected. He earns a fucking fortune every time he plays, while Secret Service agents work unpaid overtime because they ran through their entire annual budget in a…

Really? Because I thought she said it was really hard to find out that someone you love did terrible things, because you can’t just stop loving them because they did terrible things, and so she was really conflicted because she loved him but hated what he did.

I go when it’s the sort of movie that is a big cultural event that is better when it’s shared with an audience. Watching Mad Max: Fury Road or Wonder Woman would not have been the same without the women crying and cheering over finally seeing badass women at the center of major blockbusters. But I watch all the stuff…

Uh, yeah, that would have been hard to write, to say the least.  I’m a pretty good writer who used to doctor other people’s dialogue once upon a time, and I have no idea how one would could call out the insidiousness of old-school benign sexism without either giving Doctor a long-winded speech about it, or making it…

Well, he could never properly be called a “bro,” because he’s too feminist for that. By that I simply mean he was one of the many, many, many Bernie supporters who reflexively defended their decision to not vote for her by citing GOP talking points about corruption, who did not really know anything about her positions…

A lot are rushing to criticize 13 criticizing 1, saying the old show wasn’t that overtly sexist. But it actually was pretty damn sexist, even if it wasn’t overt. The female companions were usually patronized and objectified. Their dialogue was often totally stupid, even by the low standards of the old show. Even Sarah…

Oh, they’ve accomplished a lot more than that. Their packing of the courts is going to shape America for decades to come, even if the Dems take over. A Trump-appointed judge has already dismissed a lawsuit against him for violating the Emoluments Clause. And the damage Trump has done to our standing in the world may…

Surely it’s better long term to shop at rich white businesses, sue the fuck out of them when they do shit like this, and then direct that money to the black community, no?

I will never understand not only why so many people are willing to expend the energy to say that they didn’t bother to expend the energy to read something, but also why they always seem to think this is a compliment to themselves and an insult to the person they are dismissing, rather than a shallow performative…

My roommate spent most of the 21st century in the UK pursuing various degrees, and so did not really follow American political news save for what made the headlines in UK papers. And during the Clinton administration, he was too young to really follow American political news save for what made the headlines in US…

Because no one ever has long political discussions with friends in real life in which someone ends up changing their views upon being shown actual receipts. Every political discussion is as pointless, shallow, stupid, and lacking in receipts as the ones that occur on social media.

But the Democrats don’t portray themselves at the party of small government and states’ rights, do they? They honestly believe that a large, pro-active government is better than a small laissez-faire government who funnels billions of dollars of public money to their donors by pushing for privatization of necessary…

It always amazes me how many people will take the time to post variants on “I am too lazy and stupid to Google.”

Libya was a major fuckup that should not have happened. However, that fuckup is completely consistent with American foreign policy under both Democrats and Republicans, and so pointing to Libya or Yemen or Syria as a reason to vote against Hillary is stupid for both that reason and the economic ones I wrote about at…

I did not bring that specific bill up to bemoan the proliferation of guns, but to bemoan the rampant hypocrisy of the Republican party claiming to be in favor of state’s rights and small government unless it suits their agenda, in which case they trample on state’s rights with respect to guns or net neutrality, (Pai’s…

I am a white person who cheerfully lets a couple of dogs that are personally know to me lick my face, and even I am grossed out by the people who open their mouths when dogs lick their faces. I’m like, “you are not a wolf preparing to vomit up food for the pups, close your goddamned mouth.”

You probably knew that calicos were almost always female, and perhaps also that the very-rare calico males are sterile, do not develop the secondary sexual characteristics of tomcats, and exhibit an unusual degree of homosexual behavior.