Except I’d contend that “off the reservation” isn’t racist either — acknowledging the fact that Native Americans who left their reservations were at one time subject to legal repercussions isn’t saying anything bad or mocking Native Americans in any way.

Right, if one wants to avoid using the word “bugger” it makes way more sense to do so on grounds of avoiding homophobic language than avoiding racist language!

Starred for the Paris Review citation.

Can a president be primaried out like other elected officials?

Generally, yes. Already successful products that lots of consumers want make up a far larger percentage of advertising placements than new product launches, let alone advertising placements for products that are struggling in the market. It’s a fantasy that advertising has more than a marginal impact on consumer…

Uh, when did Colorado acquire a second Democratic senator?

So what prevents Geguri from recruiting her own all-female team? You can’t tell me that there aren’t sponsors who wouldn’t eat up the opportunity to back something like that.

Nolan assumed it in the OP. Giggle, giggle!

I won’t claim to be smarter than you, but the short answer is Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. The longer answer is that the drafters of the Constitution wanted to avoid judges being subject to political pressures which was a problem during the colonial era (and is still a major problem in a lot of…

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to this because it only protects you from searches by government agents. Unless Disney is doing this at the direction of a law enforcement agency, there’s no problem from a Fourth Amendment perspective.

Need to watch more Mythbusters:

It’s particularly dubious to the extent they are using the NDA to try to cover up illegal conduct. Contracts for the suppression of evidence are generally void as against public policy.

The Trump administration can hardly make the simultaneous argument that Bannon is lying and that he violated a non-disclosure agreement in Wolff’s book.

That’s exactly what I thought when they got into the casino — shouldn’t security have bounced them out before they got through the door?

I actually kept waiting for someone to give orders to shoot him during the scene where he was collecting the payoff.

I mentally pronounced it “Ooo-roo” on seeing it.

The whole thing made me think of this chart:

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Thank you! I felt like I was taking crazy pills while reading the comments here. Domino’s thin crust is my preferred crust for national chain store pizzas.

Plenty of commenters around here have.