Nixon’s original War on Drugs may not have been the first shot, but it was definitely part of the first action. Everything the GOP has done since has been a deliberate effort to undermine democracy, ensure their wins regardless of who votes what way, to bring back or shore up the rule of ONLY old, rich, white men from…

It’s the oldest straw man in the business.

Blame Obama or whomever for the hire if you want.  The bottom line is that FEMA has bosses who are supposed to be the oversight for shit like this, long before the FBI has to get involved, and certainly long before a bunch of hick nobodies steals $1.8 billion in tax money and leaves millions of American citizens to…

The minute someone with a shred of integrity gets to the White House, Fox News’ broadcasting license should be revoked on Day 1, at 8:01 AM.

I’m with you. It totally varies by preparation / presentation.

I’m so sick of the plutocrats of the American Right exploiting the tragedy of Venezuela’s horrific collapse for anti-socialist propaganda.

Plot twist: it turns out to be a groundhog kidney.

File under: “You literally cannot make this shit up”

Orchestras didn’t just come from nowhere. There’s a reason that orchestral covers of modern music (and by that I mean anything from past Big Band onward) often rock right the hell out.

There are a bunch of things wrong with that analogy. Let’s start with the dogged insistance that we’re talking about “contractors”, not employees. Mutineers are crew aboard a ship, who naturally can’t go anywhere if they want to stop being crew, until and unless the ship docks. So they’re much more analogous to…

It’s more than just the Emperor yelling about how there is no Darkening. It’s about him denying it strenuously, being believed by his subjects and those in lower-tier power (Seladon)... and then immediately retreating to his basement to work on weaponizing the damned thing.

It didn’t help that the Chamberlain has a near-identical, if much more brief, feud with the Garthim Master in the original film.

Good find. Thanks. Cripes, though. 1 per month or less? That sounds like tobacco smoking figures, or what I’d expect out of them, not a sugary drink. I mean, if it’s a candy bar, or 2 or 3 candy bars’ equivalent... does that mean eating a candy bar a month puts you 1% closer to the grave?

Its too bad there isn’t more on more moderate levels of consumption, like 2 servings per week instead of per day.  We’re finally starting to see real data like that about alcohol (and it isn’t good, with the studies showing moderate consumption being healthier than teetotaling being deeply flawed, apparently), but not…

Everything bad Trump has ever done is already public knowledge.  When you’re that rich, you can simply pay to have people vouch for you that it’s all untrue, and get rid of any hard evidence that would count as far as prosecution is concerned.  Or you just keep it quiet long enough for the Statute of Limitations to…

Thing looks like a 2-legged “compact Dewback”, for when your Dewback won’t fit in a parking space...

1.) Oyster (the little piece of dark meat in the corner of the thigh, tucked into its own recess in the bone)

Look at it this way: If they were, could or would they really admit it? Of course not.

That “global rise of fascism” is exactly why this craft has always looked like either a short-notice orbital weapons delivery platform - i.e., “When you absolutely positively must kill someone halfway around the world but have less than 24 hours’ notice to do it” - or special-mission satellite surveillance tool, for…

Even then, the most successful parasites tend to be the ones that cause the least harm and discomfort, unlike the human sort.