Mopening Joe* is a great barometer for how talking point trial balloons are going to float. It’s kind of like Axios in that you follow it to see what passes for conventional wisdom, and what sort of Centrist nonesense is going to have to be rebutted, mitigated, or tolerated.

Cohn also, if I remember correctly, believed in the idea that being gay was more a matter of weakness and submission as opposed to wanting to fuck a member of the same sex.

Causation/correlation problem

By “dates” you mean emotionally manipulates. That’s what you meant, right? Because that’s what he does.

Oh, Ross. Don't dou that.

Would +1, but it would mess with perfection

I mean, if you just went off the pretty pictures...

Also:

Hey Kelvin, you want to not run some routes

Sounds like a Croque Monsieur, but with Turkey instead of ham

There are definitely liberal writers or thinkers that always seem itchy to dip their toes in the alt right pool and so when they have their break from the left it’s not a shock. David Mamet was a liberal through the early part of his career but if you watch “Glengarry, Glenross” it’s not hard to see him empathizing…

Ugh, thank God. I’ve never understood how that 10,000 hours thing got traction. Like you can spend 10, 000 hours practicing free throws, but if your technique is that of a developing 12 year old, you spent 10,000 hours doing something the wrong way.

From a classical liberalism perspective, they are simply operating their ability to associate with other entities that suit their needs.

So, he’s right. Fuck him.

Verne Gagne’s dog is a HELL of a ventriloquist

David Byrne found a way to walk a fine line between insidious and cheerful. Some of his most disturbed people are also the most well adjusted. The aspiring, social young urban professional of “Don’t Worry About the Government”; Bobby and Judy who use a successful production company to save their marriage; the narrator…

“E-Bow the Letter” by R.E.M.

C usually suggests at least competence. I mean JK Simmons, Vera Ferminga, Alfred Molina; ringers doing ringer stuff.

The scene comes after he has been away on tour for a long time and growing more distant with each phone call; in addition, she has seen his interactions with other men and noticed that he interacts more genuinely with them.

It was fine. But even if it was as good as you say it was, can you point to anything that only Singer could have done with the material? 

Pfffftp. The only difference between paint and paint stripper is you gotta’ tip the latter. Ain’t that right kid?