God, I could only read a bit of that newsletter and skim the rest. It’s a story I’ve seen far too many times in the last few years.

I like to imagine those private investigators are still in Hawaii living off an expense account. sitting on the beach with aloha shirts and fedoras.

I’m not really into trucks.

Well, that’s always been the knock on Warren, hasn’t it? Whether it’s by her nature as a woman, or by the nature of her progressive politics, something* about her just riles the heck out of Republicans, and the conventional wisdom is that the best candidate is the one that un-riles or de-riles the Republican base.

I’m going to try to give you a somewhat more thought-out response than your slippery slope argument really deserves. You’re starting from the same flawed “centrist” position that the GOP likes: that capitalism is always good and that “free market solutions” will always produce the best (or at least most efficient)…

I was hoping coins would spill out of my monitor when I saw that.

But when the guy showed up to his house he just wanted to watch a bootleg DVD.

Correct. Marxists and other types of communists view socialism as a necessary evil stepping stone on the way to true communism. Communism’s ultimate goal is to eventually get to communal ownership of all means of production and abolish government. Unfortunately they never get to this step, mostly because they have to…

If I remember correctly ( which, it has been a couple of decades since I read up on it), socialism was the first step towards communism in the Bolshevik revolution. The seizure of the government and industry was necessary in their mind and Lenin was supposed to be a “custodian” until things were stabilized and could…

on the one hand I think you’re right about pretty much all of that...but on the other a part of me mourns the fact that so many bits of theory & terminology have been saddled with various kinds of baggage that it’s a genuine hindrance to serious & sincere discussion...

My wife weighs less than me and has one less docking part sticking out, and yet is significantly more attractive. Don’t tell anyone, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the relationship between aesthetics, weight and component complexity may be more nuanced than ‘pretty=bad’.

You want your freedom? Cool, then you should be fine with the personal responsibility and limitations that go with it. Those kids can’t attend public schools or any school that receives that evil government money. They also can’t participate in activities funded by federal, state, or local governments, like soccer…

Bro do you even know what it’s like here in the grays? Don’t stand on your black pedestal and say you’re the same as me. Don’t run a comment system of injustice and tell me to be mad at celebrities. You don’t know our pain, and I’m sure you don’t care to, oblivious to what it’s like, to how I feel.

So by not following a law that already existed, the Republicans cheating is the Democrats’ fault because they don’t support other laws.

Why is it a good thing that they wrap up immediately after Trump puts in his new AG, who specifically thinks the President is above the law?

My wife and I are having our first in a couple months. Anytime someone says anything close to “do you think you’re ready”, I tell them that we have a dog, so we have a pretty good idea of what we’re doing. Literally as I was typing this, my uncle just asked me if I was prepared to change diapers. Told him that we’re…

Nobody “gave Iran 117 billion dollars.”  The Iran treaty removed sanctions on Iranian money that the US had frozen in banks under our control.  It wasn’t our money to give.  

It’s cute that you think of yourself as being in the “dead middle”, yet come out of nowhere to dump on “members of the liberal party” and bemoan how “sissified our society is becoming” and then for seemingly no reason at all bring up the Republican Party’s current bete noire.

His favorite simulated course is on the Texas border, where he spends hours trying to hit balls over his simulated wall.

There’s a thought. After all, AMI did hire that crypto-Israeli Black Cube intelligence firm to silence Rose McGowan and Ronan Farrow about their Weinstein story— so, even if it isn’t the government, I’d say Pecker & co. are connected enough to have access to some techno goodies that’d only require her phone number to…