As I understand it — and as a white male, I struggle sometimes — reverse racism is not racism because it is correcting a long history of racism. It is bias, but bias by itself is not racism. Sometimes bias is good, because it fixes wrongs from the past. Bias that reinforces past wrongs is bad.

This is the point! Coarseness and crudeness is the entire point! The voters are sick of machined, plastic politicians. The coarser and cruder the better. Why aren’t people getting this? Why aren’t pundits getting this?!?

Yes, he can. America is divided such that any of the two major party candidates has about a 50% chance of winning. A very small percentage change one way or another can give someone the presidency.

Racist, Misogynist, Dominionist: You must pick one. (Then pick a second as the VP candidate.)

Can you confirm the rumor I’ve heard that goat foreplay invariably involves watersports? And that that’s why they constantly stink?

Where did you get the English version of this manga? I can only find it in Japanese. Nice find.

54 percent of likely Republican primary voters think that Obama is a Muslim. That’s a majority. Not of all Republicans (that figure is more like 43 percent, from the same link), but of all the Republicans that matter in the primaries.

This *is* the sane Republican stance. Obama has a right — even an obligation — to nominate someone. Congress has the prerogative to reject that nominee. But Congress doesn’t want the bad press it will get by rejecting 3 or 4 nominees before Obama leaves office. So they would prefer it if Obama just declined to…

So the one Republican who isn’t a dick is the one who tried to knife a kid in high school. Gotcha.

I think it’s nice that Chris Christie’s relatives are stumping the polls for him.

You must really hate Joe Scarborough if you want to put him in a cage with a robot.

Wolf should have countered with, “Do you think it’s a problem that you don’t understand what the voters are saying about you?”

Going by my extensive knowledge of Car Wars as a teenager, I’m guessing they use solid rubber tires that can’t be damaged by gunshots. What they apparently are lacking is a solid tire with a winter tread.

I created this back in 2012. I’m sort of glad the presidential campaign has graduated to a better class of fantasy fiction.

I can’t believe that nobody in this thread has mentioned Jessica Rabbit.

This reminds me of Amiri Baraka’s advice. “You’ve got to be a spirit, Bulworth. Not a ghost!”

Worst. Possible. Answer.

That was part of the zeitgeist. It’s a trope older than dirt that virtuous suffering innocents are among the casualties in any fairy tale. Or in other words:

I don’t think the problem is that they couldn’t make a H-bomb. I think the problem is that this explosion was too small to be one. If that’s what they intended then it most likely failed in the second stage.

I haven’t had a gay experience since 1998, and because of this FDA rule I haven’t been able to give blood for the past 17 years. Good to hear that now I’m ‘clean enough’ for them. Have to pay a visit to the Bloodmobile next time it’s around...