I still can’t understand why anyone at NBC thought this was a good idea. She’s very popular with a specific segment of the population (old white Republicans) doing a certain thing (looking smug while pushing conservative spin).

This job is completely different and the audience you are going for is completely…

I don’t even know how to react to that. Who in their right mind writes that? He knew the dude was a “sexual gangster” and was okay with it, but cutting some goddamn movies poorly is worse!? It seems like this guy is pretty okay with sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Has he? I’m actually asking, not just trashing your point. Everything I’ve seen is of rumors. The original woman who supposedly was talking about him has said she wasn’t, yet they keep bringing it up as if she was. I have yet to see someone say that someone else has come out and accused him, or even anonymously told…

Okay, I’m not usually one to comment on fashion but... What the fuck is she wearing? I’d say she got dressed in the dark, but I feel like you would see those in the dark...

Yeah, they need something more sweeping than this. For one thing, they need to limit the size of clips. Any shooter that has to reload every 5 or 10 bullets is going to be much less effective. But on the fire rate, having a gun where you have to manually do something to get it to chamber another bullet would be idea.

Yeah, they need something more sweeping than this. For one thing, they need to limit the size of clips. Any shooter that has to reload every 5 or 10 bullets is going to be much less effective. But on the fire rate, having a gun where you have to manually do something to get it to chamber another bullet would be idea.

First of all, if it had just lowered the number of crimes with assault weapons, that would still prove it worked. That would be an example of gun control having a positive effect on the specific type of gun crime it was targeting. So you’d still be wrong.

A couple of problems. One is that the assault rifle ban is an example of a policy that worked. Assault rifles were used in fewer shootings. The number of shootings using assault rifles dropped more than 60%. Second, if you look at gun violence by year, it went down during the 90s. The ban was passed in 94, and that…

The thing they don’t want to admit is that gun control laws do have an effect. They conflate the statement “you are never going to stop everyone,” which is true, with “you are never going to stop anyone,” which is false. No law banning things will every be 100% effective, but it does have an effect, and in this case…

They want to be seen as promoting unity when these things happen. It’s sad though, because I would love to have someone presidential in the Oval at times like this, but we don’t. Even Pence, who is terrible, could do this part of the job very well. We need a comforting presence to calm us at times like this, and we do…

Here’s something that always bothers me in these situations: The Republicans will say it’s not respectful to talk about guns at a time like this. We are supposed to wait some unknown amount of time before we talk about it. It’s the same with extreme weather and climate change. It’s not respectful, we are told. People…

This would be a reasonable explanation except for the fact that she has to know that her audience hates the media and many of them are anti-semites. I find it hard to believe that she would be completely unaware of those two things. I don’t buy that she didn’t make the connection.

“It is clear to me that in this case, I was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer,” Price said.

I was mad about Conan getting screwed, so I made the choice to not watch NBC’s late night lineup anymore, and I still haven’t gone back. I see clips on the internet, but I haven’t sat down to watch Fallon ever. I don’t hold it against him, but I couldn’t support what the network did.

Well, she did bring in the viewers at Fox. She has something they like. The problem is this is a completely different format with a completely different audience. That was mostly old white people. The audience for this is mostly in their middle years, many of whom are not white. Thinking her skills would transfer was…

It seems like whenever they make a big move, it’s bad. I keep thinking about Jay Leno’s stupid variety hour. I actually like Jay Leno fine, but that show was terrible, it was a bad idea to begin with, and paying him that much money to do it was idiotic. And then it fucked everything up because they paid him so much…

I did vote for her. It was her or a mad man, so it wasn’t much of a choice. But the server, and her reaction to it, did make me nervous about her becoming president. Early on, when she had changed her story for the second or third time, it was clear that she was willing to lie to cover it up. Then it went farther and…

Jesus wasn’t white. Santa is fictional and can be any damn color we want. Just sayin’.

 Here is our national discussion about other countries’ healthcare systems:

Except not really. There are two things here: whether it was a criminal act worthy of charges, and whether or not it was enough of a political scandal to end her career.