The Republicans have put more effort into working the refs than developing their game ever since Newt Gingrich became Speaker, which doesn’t require them to actually play the game, but merely prevent the other team from playing. Because they do not need to govern, because they do not have any principles beyond …

The Republicans have put more effort into working the refs than developing their game ever since Newt Gingrich became Speaker. Because they have never had any principles beyond a single-minded devotion to totally unregulated capitalism, which doesn’t require them to actually play the game, but merely prevent the other…

Jeff Sessions is an honorable person relative to his peers in the Trump administration.

Doing that is the worst. Seeing other people do it is the best.

She had to recover from the nip and tuck at Trump Tower, lest the fact that she had a nip and tuck be leaked from the White House.

How entitled do you have to be to complain about being given free things you don’t want in amongst the free things you do want?

That is because no other mammal domesticates and breeds other mammals. If they did, they’d drink milk too, because milk is an excellent source of nutrition.

It isn’t true. Gluten levels have not increased in modern wheat. What has changed is that the nutrient content of pretty much all of our food has decreased as food production has become industrialized, as we select for visual appeal, uniformity to aid in mechanical picking and packing, and durability to aid in…

If ABC had waited until the advertisers started bailing, they would been criticized for doing it for the wrong reasons. Whereas I would have preferred that, because then when the Trumpists went crazy, we could say, “I thought you guys were all about it being all about the market.” Whereas now they have a…

It always amazes me that there are so many people who so confidently state that human beings should stop consuming a food that they started eating before they started building cities.

The thing is, Roseanne has a history of saying crazy shit about everything and everybody. At one time she was on the crazy left, now she’s on the crazy right, because she is actually mentally ill. That is a little different than someone who has just been consistently racist, or anti-Semitic, or Islamophobic. Not…

What is the most famous line spoken by the spokesman for the NRA in that film that came out two years after the Black Panther party was founded, again?

Yes, I am aware of that. However, while there are many, many, many media executives that have willingly provided platforms for terrible people who say terrible things, and then ignored or defended it when they doubled down on the terrible, there aren’t many that have been willing to say enough already with the…

You could easily replace that OR with an AND.

Sure, which is why I’ve long since given up on the articles themselves. But people who write words for a living should, at bare minimum, spell them correctly in the &%#@(headlines.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest one reason our urban streets reek of piss compared to those of other wealthy democracies is because we hardly ever provide public bathrooms, much less bathrooms that any but the homeless would actually want to use, that making people pay money to pee is wrong, and that if…

I agree with everything you just said but also feel like it is nonetheless worth celebrating that the the first black president of a major broadcast network canceled an extremely popular show because of racism.

I just saw there’s a much better picture of her up thread, looking like she’s on a throne.

Actually, it wasn’t about “stones” at all. This is the president of ABC. : )

The point is that if he knew half as much about media and journalism as he thinks he does, he would have known exactly how that would be interpreted.