Three years ago, I was working as an adjunct at a community college. I was getting $2500/course, not $3000. These are McDonalds-level wages. Colleges do this because they are squeezed and because there is a big enough pool of qualified people who will take the work at that price, not because they are mean. Or not…

It left me thinking “WTF was that absurd waste of time?” But I was in college in 1982, which I guess makes your point.

Guess who college-educated immigrants compete with.

This is just the tip of the kleptocracy.

It is 100% Trumpian to dismiss the existing Outer Space Treaty (https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm) out of hand without even considering the consequences of militarizing space. Why bother trying to come to an amicable agreement when we can instigate an arms race that will further wreck the Earth, displace economic…

Enjoyed his work in True Blood and Elementary. RIP. :(

Ah, the power elite!

I don’t remember that, but I believe you. It’s absurd, but it does make this (and that) sort of work.

If that’s the case, how does Missy not remember being this version of the Master? And not remember spending a few years with Bill? Why do so many Who episodes depend on things that don’t make any sense within the show’s own framework?

I completely agree. In fact, I think the film would have been better if there had been no moment when Diana punched the Big Bad in the face. That battle was stupid and pointless, unlike the one one she fought in the village.

I have no gamer friends so I probably won’t play it, but it looks pretty cool to me.

We need a movement for free and fair elections. America has never fully lived up to its democratic ideals, and today we’re headed in entirely the wrong direction.

Re. Medicaid, assuming the AHCA or something like it passes the senate, most Red states will do exactly what you would expect: cut it to the bone. Current GOP ideology holds that health conditions are personal choices, and ditto for poverty and disability. If you can’t afford to have diabetes, you should have eaten…

Do they have a pre-amp to go along with it so I can attach a turntable?

Do they have a pre-amp to go along with it so I can attach a turntable?

1. Why couldn’t she just stay lost?

I wouldn’t be surprised if CBO staffers are getting unexpected visits from very scary people right now. I hope they’re better insulated from pressure than most government employees are right now.

Just another step along the Handmaiden Trail.

I should say that in a more sociological way. The core Trump audience feels wronged by immigrants and the people who support immigrants. Many find immigrants culturally threatening and many blame them for difficulties in the labor market. It makes them feel good to see pain inflicted on those they feel directly or…

Cruelty is the point. Cruelty is red meat to the red audience.

How are these tropes?