I honestly hope that he is the President you hope him to be, and not the man he has shown himself to be. Beyond policies, beyond ideology, the first quality a President must have is the ability to run something without running it into a ditch or burning it to the ground. I’ve seen nothing to indicate that Donald Trump…

First you mourn. Then you stand up, brush yourself off, and get back to it.

In retrospect, that may have been a mistake.

To paint 109 million people with the broad brush of racism is not, I think, the act of a rational mind. But racist or not, their candidate’s racism was not enough to dissuade them. More probably, what we see here is simple tribalism and partisanship. You could put a mannequin on stage for either party and it would…

To minorities, to Muslims, to the LGBT people out there, to the poor, to women: I am so sorry. We failed you. We’ve all failed you.

Some prices are too high to pay. :(

Most people are. It looks like shell win the popular vote.

As someone who works in software, when you don’t have a concrete plan or aren’t ready to talk about something, “were discussing it internally” is about all you can say. Anything more before you’re willing to commit just causes problems.

You forgot my favorite from Gawker: “malevolent summer squash”.

Who gets to decide what’s on this test, or when a citizen is smart enough to vote? :)

Tee hee. Tannhauser gate. :)

Never forget.

“I am Hououin Kyouma, and the world is in the palm of my hand!”

Interstellar has more than its share of problems, but they nailed one thing. Space sucks. Everything about it is basically terrible. Airlessness, inhospitable hell planets, relativistic travel basically destroying your life, all basically correct. Exploring space as an idea is provocative, but everything we find is…

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What in the world are you talking about? 90% of that babbling screed had nothing to do with anything I said. It seems like maybe you need to step back from the keyboard and take a few deep breaths.

I don’t think it’s impossible, I think it’s childish. It’s a solution that smacks of double-think. To blind oneself to the fact that there are differences is easy. People lie to themselves all the time for reasons both good and bad. To change the way one thinks so that differences are things to be celebrated, and…

I’m not going to jump on you like Ka Mai, but he’s right. A lot of peole, especially white people like myself, are known to say things like “I don’t see race”, or “we shouldn’t see race”. However it’s been my experience that most people of other races are not onboard with this idea, nor should they be.

I think he’s saying it didn’t have a strong enough impact on the way the game plays out. Like, too much window dressing, not enough substance.

Perhaps not, and perhaps you have no responsibility to try and protect them. But it’s still the right thing to do.