Howard Dean is a D.C. lobbyist—one that lobbies on behalf of moneyed health care interests whose objective (i.e., profits) stands directly opposite the average patient’s objective (i.e., not dying). The American health care let’s-say-system and its corporate gatekeepers have quite literally contributed to people’s…

Bow of Flags? I don’t get it.

For somebody that later in this thread claims to be a lawyer, you’re not exactly doing a great job reading the section of the Code in question. Specifically, Sanders saying in a press conference that it’s a “fireable offense” isn’t barred from meshing with “intent to influence” under the statute. If anything, weighing…

This is true if you use sad pre-sliced cheese like a goddamn commoner. For those of us that cut pieces of actual cheese and put them in the middle of the burger, that time to melt is absolutely necessary; the actual on-the-burger melting process allows the cheese to cascade toward the edges from the center, ensuring…

1. Lawyers don’t “drag out” the process, they’re trying to ensure that a person isn’t killed by the state improperly. Courts have full dockets. You don’t want to rush shit that, when done wrong, leaves an innocent person to die by the hands of the state.

I counted three full steps after the gather. So it’s a slightly better clear travel.d

Please. The difference between primary turnout and election turnout this year is night and fucking day, and it shows an enthusiasm gap that showed up in nonparticipation, not third party voting. It’s math.

Oh, there are a shitload of racists in his coalition. They just don’t identify as racists. But that’s what happens when there is no solidarity in the working class: racial animus serves as stand-in for economic uncertainty.

The numbers show Clinton substantially benefited from Johnson’s performance. Absent his showing, her losses in the Rust Belt would have been that much worse.

Demographics of Trump’s base implicitly showed Rust Belt states were absolutely in play, at least to the extent that shoring up support there was a better use of resources than trips to states she only had outside shots at winning (Iowa, Arizona). Wisconsin elected Scott Walker—more than once. Feingold was trying to…

If you keep rinsing your toothbrush in the toilet and blame elves every time...

This is the worst kind of argumentation. You see those Johnson voters? The ones that quadrupled Stein’s turnout in those states? They weren’t leaning Clinton. If anything, they siphoned off traditionally Republican-leaning voters. They weren’t disaffected Bernie Bros.

Party loyalists are handicapping these results like goddamn Seymour Skinner trying to find a truant Bart Simpson. “It was Johnson and Stein! It was Bernie! It was white supremacy!” It was a candidate that didn’t get people to the fucking polls. Look at the returns and compare them, just in terms of total voters, to…

Oh my god if Karen Walker were an option in the voting booth, I’d push down the lever (????? I’ve voted by mail for a few years now, shut up) so hard I’d break bones in my hand.

I get what you’re saying, but I’m sure there’s plenty of attorneys working within the U.S. judicial system that wouldn’t consider themselves “supporters” in any meaningful sense, and work within it because they see that it is not worth supporting as-is.

I’m not sure I’m persuaded by this. If the emotional statement has some measure of political motivation behind it (assuming that there is always an answer to “why?” when talking flag pins as proxy for love of country), does the degree of separation or obfuscation mitigate the inherently political root of it? Couldn’t…

Saying “I love my country” is absolutely a political statement. Choosing to adorn yourself with your country’s flag as an expression of literally anything apart from “it came with the suit and I lack the finger dexterity to remove it” is a political statement, too.

I think his game would translate better to tennis than this list suggests. His height and reach would mitigate his relatively slow first step, especially laterally. Add his obvious strength and endurance to that, and I think he does very well. Not even just as a serve-and-volley style (though I think he’d be athletic…

David Brooks Writes Incredibly Stupid Thing is as notable as Sun Rises In East, Casts Light Over All Dominion—Including David Brooks Who Is Probably Going To Write Something Incredibly Stupid As A Result.

Absolutely this. When it comes to hobbies, tastes in music, etc., my wife and I have at most moderate overlap (seriously, I don’t get how anybody can like Dave Matthews Band and/or hate fruitcake). But more than a series of tandem activities and Best-Of lists, we have rapport, and I think people underestimate that as…