I love that the four acceptable Republican positions on COVID-19 are:

It’s like we’re all trapped in a burning building, and everyone is trying to coordinate an evacuation plan and round up as many fire extinguishers and hoses as they can find before the blaze kills us all.

Even if China is to blame for the origins of this pandemic, it doesn’t change the fact the US domestic response was (and still is) a catastrophe. We have little to no control over China’s meat slaughtering and sanitation practices. We do have control over our own testing, tracing, and quarantine practices.

Five years ago Paul Ryan was what passed for a “sensible”, “serious”, “policy wonk” Republican. Which showed how intellectually and morally bankrupt the Republican Party was in 2015. Then Ryan left Washington and this title was filled by Ben Sasse, which proves that no matter how bad you think things are they can…

You would have to be an actual Marxist to consider Obama’s policies “right wing”. He may have failed to achieve most of the lofty hopes the progressive/socialist wing of the Democratic Party had for him, but Obama was definitively a liberal president. To even call him “center-left” would be a stretch. Calling him…

Seriously. Sasse has voted to confirm virtually all of Trump’s judicial/cabinet appointees and legislative priorities, and he voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial. This makes him a Trump supporter for all practical purposes.

He has voted to confirm virtually all of Trump’s judicial/cabinet appointees and legislative priorities, and he voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial. This makes him a Trump supporter for all practical purposes.

Every asshole thinks they're special and that the rules don't apply to them.

Seriously. EA eats and shits out game studios with the mindlessness of a cow grazing in a field. I bet their own executives have forgotten how many studios they've scuttled over the years. This is not a company known for its brand nostalgia.

Are there people who still care about this game? 

Seriously. If this had been an always-on dashcam in some random dude's car, that’s one thing. But this guy had his cameraphone already rolling at the exact place and time of the shooting. He knew SOMETHING was going to happen and planned in advance to film it.

Biden has shitloads of political capital by virtue of having been in Washington for over 30 years. Say what you will about his other flaws, but political capital is one thing he is certainly not lacking.

Donald: “This month’s poll numbers are awful. We need to do some pandering to Latino voters. Ideas?”

There is, unfortunately, a pervasive idea among many Americans that WWII was essentially America/Britain versus Germany/Japan. The contributions of other combatant nations are often completely ignored, particularly those of China and the Soviet Union. Which is especially galling because those two countries lost…

Calm down, kid. It's just a game.

Calm down, kid. It's just a game.

I mean...... at least he’s spending it I guess? A bunch of less-than-rich people get paid to build, install, move, maintain, and clean all that garish nonsense. Probably a better social outcome than if he just horded all his money in a vault or some shit.

No, because once the service ends, those people will then leave the church. And over the next few weeks they will buy groceries, pick up mail, go to the pharmacy, etc. Thus exposing thousands of other people who were never part of that congregation to COVID.

I’m sorry - are you under the impression that the mercenary industry is something that came into existence post-2008? Mercenaries have been a fixture of warfare since the dawn of human civilization.

That’s your opinion.

Agreed. The cliche most people cling to about MGS2 is about how Raiden ruins the plot, when in fact Raiden is actually the least of MGS2's problems. The entire plot is abject nonsense. It takes Kojima’s usual approach (throwing garbled fragments of philosophical and political theory into a blender) and turns it up to…