49 years. They’ve been voting against their economic self-interest for 49 years. Not forever.

If you’re literally grabassing, then turnabout is fair play. There should be proportionality—so if she really hauled off and hit him hard in the balls, then I can see that going too far—but a nut tap is hardly unknown among male friends: http://terminallance.com/2014/03/28/terminal-lance-313-god-loves-marines/”

Alternate alternate theory: actually died years ago but still too drunk and stoned to notice.

1. Hasn’t happened, wouldn’t happen, won’t happen. Eight years into Obama’s green energy push and oil is so cheap that hundreds of domestic E&Ps have been forced to reorganize in bankruptcy.

I’d say the same thing you guys did eight years ago but “PLEASE DEMOCRATS SAVE US FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR CHOICES” is actually still your line for four years from now.

Yes, all those nuclear physicists working for big oil. Indeed.

He’s not 100% correct. There is a cost to a baculum, but there are costs to all kinds of things that aren’t “necessary” to survival that don’t go away, or are even selected for. Peacock tails are a classic example of Zahavi handicapping. Maybe the energy drag of an extra (relatively small) bone was sufficient to…

I am highly skeptical of this line of thinking. Bush was a disaster. He was obviously going to be a disaster, but people blinded themselves to it, and the media could not name the thing without sliding back almost instantly to false equivalency and 24-hour news cycle churn. Trump is flamboyantly awful, but people…

Basically right, but I hold out hope that he’s a one term disaster.

Possibly against the securities laws, possibly a business tort, almost certainly non-actionable unless he actually traded in the securities.

Uh, okay buddy. I’m alive in New York in my early 30s, and I’m telling you, a private equity associate is not an “investment banker.” Investment bankers advise clients who are buying or selling. Funds (PE, hedge, venture, whatever) buy things and sell things. They are advised by investment bankers.

If you’re saying this is how these girls are talking about it, maybe, but when I hear “banker,” I think of someone who works for a bank. An investment bank. If you work for a fund, you’re not a banker. There are all kinds of things to call guys who work for funds, but none of those things are “banker,” and only…

And so, kids, that’s basically how we wound up with President Trump. Sure, we have to collect rainwater and boil it now and the cannibalism is pretty bad in some parts of the ruins, but for a few glorious years, people really knew how much they needed to check their privilege.

Bankers? What is this, 1999? PE guys or hedgies.

Bullshit. Link to a single listing within the last 6 months or it didn’t happen.

I thought you got a suicide watch at 20 years?

Pardon me, sir, that empty chair is still President until January!

Are we mad at Tom Ford now? Because I’ve hated that son of a bitch for years. I can’t believe that the man responsible for pants no longer covering ankles won’t let his kid wear dinosaur shoes. His hallmark style is things looking like shit below the knee.

I am unconfused by “the American right-wing” being both pro-Israel and anti-semitic, because “the American right-wing” is a heterogeneous grouping of very different ideologies. You have pro-business, anti-regulatory types who may or may not share other “right-wing” values—a lot of Wall Street fits that description. …

It’s actually weirder than that. Prior to the ‘70s, the evangelically religious in this country were generally left-leaning. Of course, prior to the ‘70s, even the generally left-leaning were homophobic, anti-miscegenation, leery of “women’s liberation” and otherwise “conservative” on a ton of social angles that…