I think Trump will be compelled to testify (excluding the votes by Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch), but I’m not sure what happens from there. Fine Trump commits perjury AND they have enough to nail him on obstruction of justice AND they can prove he knowingly received something of value from a foreign government/foreign…

So the NY Times article goes on to clarify that sitting President’s have all agreed to be interviewed by special counsels, and the one attempt to stymie a special counsel request (Nixon’s refusal to hand over his tapes) lost at the Supreme Court.

Definitely, if we had a more nuanced understanding of “worst,” Trump would certainly be easily in the running. Buchanan was likely just mediocre in the face of an incredibly brittle situation. Guys like Jackson and Trump actually manage to shape the national character for the worse and make our system less resilient…

The problem with “worst of all time” is that Buchanan let us drift into the Civil War without lifting a finger. You get a situation where a handful of states cut deals in February 1861 and don’t join the Conderacy, you end up with a war with 100th the casualties.

Hahaha! I guess it’s the second book where Nino comes into play again, and my wife was like, “I like Nino. That seems like real love,” and I was like, “That dude is a shitbag.” It was validating because I always peg dudes as gross who my wife finds charming and friendly.

I feel like this was the point of the story. She wasn’t into any of it, and he just kept on mashing buttons trying to get her into it, and it wasn’t working. As an old married dude, I don’t really understand how people generate the trust and communication necessary to have good sex after only knowing each other for a…

The Times’s attempts to “on the other hand” shit is incredibly facile and garbage. “On the other hand, the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of donations to fight disease raises troubling questions.” “On the other hand, antifa is just as bad as neo-Nazis.” “On the other hand, what about the men?” “On the other hand,…

This is f’ing crazy. The Rabbi gets less space to eat in peace at a typical potluck or oneg. People are more pushy and excited about hanging out with their religious leaders than anyone is to be with Trump.

I feel like “all but like 10 people in the resistance had to die because you couldn’t follow orders” wasn’t punished severely enough.

My daughter has underwear emblazoned with the days of the week on the tush. My wife informed me that she wears the correct pair for the day it is. In this way, my daughter resembles me and not my wife.

I don’t believe her English is good enough for her to understand most English language TV shows. My guess is that her favorite shows are all in Slovenian/Slovenian music videos.

I grew of with an apocryphal story about a minister applying for a job in a congregation, and they ask him at the end of the interview whether he’s pre millennialist or post millennialist. Dude starts to sweat it because he doesn’t know which one the congregation ascribes to. Then he comes out with “I’m pro…

I feel like animatronic Trump and animatronic Jefferson probably sit around trading f-ed up rape stories. “Jefferson, when I was raping a 13-year-old girl in my daughter’s bedroom, I felt kind of like maybe I’d crossed a boundary.” “Tell me about it Trump, when I was raping my dead wife’s 14-year-old half sister who…

Market capitalism does some terrible shit, but I’m always happy when it blithely ignores some widely held prejudice to open up a market opportunity. In part because you get to see the logic of right wing extremists collapse on itself. “Markets are always right! People who aren’t like me shouldn’t be accommodated! They…

This should be on a greeting card!

Dick doesn’t even know how to properly be a dick. Pay it in pennies if you want to be petty. Make sure that you spill Coke on them a few days before, so they stick together. If you wanted to get the optimal dollar coin troll, you’d go with the Adams dollar (a very low level troll if you ask me). If you wanted to be…

Super Size Me came out when my wife was pregnant with our first kid, and it gave her a major craving. She held it off for like a week before heading to the drive-through near our house and eating a Big Mac in the car. Glorious going in, but it didn’t sit well. In the 13 years since then, we’ve had McDonald’s twice, I…

Sarah Huckleberry Sanders is evil, but she’s at least an evil person who is good at her fucking job, which distinguishes her from basically everyone else in the administration.

So this is the thing I don’t get. If I were a serial sexual harasser, I feel like I’d read the writing on the wall and pre-apologize without waiting to get caught first? “As more stories of assault and harassment by others in my field have come to light, I now see that my prior behaviors were completely unacceptable.…

If you ate Reese’s Pieces while you listened to Dave Matthews, it would be perfect... A veritable symphony of aural and oral mediocrity.