“Respecting the office” with the degree of submission and deference that phrase connotes is exactly what I dislike, though. Even if the person holding the office were a perfectly unobjectionable human being, “your President” is still an aristocratic pretension used by a political leader and his supporters to quash…

The version of the ACA that passed the House under Pelosi was a lot more expansive than what was ultimately able to get through the Senate. I don’t think you can really blame her for Joe Lieberman’s bullshit.

“Space Station, this is your President,” Trump said to his own reflection, according to Sims.

Can I be a boozehound?

1. Deny that racism played a role in an incident through the strategic application of context-excluding pedantry and other forms of obfuscation.
   

“You DO realize this is NOT a USSR blockade, don’t you? Yes, Josef Stalin is demanding that all of Berlin be subject exclusively to the authority of the Soviet occupation zone – that’s not the problem. The problem is that the Westerners, Harry and Clement, won’t give it to him.”

Wel, the “federal government” was the one that finally said civil rights weren’t exclusively for white people and the states couldn’t just trample over everyone beyond a certain melanin threshold willy-nilly. But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence for this guy who believes in “small government” for unrelated reasons.

That’s the same guy who was aghast the other day that people suggested there was any racial component whatsoever to the white, rural kids in Minnesota waving a Trump 2020 banner during a basketball game against a mostly black school. His basic argument was that it was a simple political disagreement and that the…

Liked the episode fine, but I have to say I was really hoping to see more of this version of ‘80s Scully and Hitchcock as that’s one of my favorite little scenes with them in the whole show. On the other hand, since their backstory in this episode and that flashback were both set in 1986, it’s officially canon that…

Scully’s wife didn’t die as far as we know, but she did leave him. Season two or three, I think. And then he and Hitchcock later made a blood pact that if Hitchcock died first, Scully would marry his (presumably then-current) wife, but I have no idea if she’s still in the picture.

I can’t entirely disagree with you, either. I really liked the level of ambition it brought relative to other network series – especially at that time – but on the other hand I don’t think a reasonable person could deny that they created something more sprawling than they could ultimately handle. There were…

“The Constant” remains a basically flawless hour of television though. However you think about the rest of the show’s run and how it ended (my personal opinion is admittedly a lot more positive than yours seems to be), I’d argue it was all worth it for that.

I’ve visited Jacksonville once and this line entirely tracked with my experience there. Still one of the Top Ten Swamp Cities in Northeastern Florida, though.

See, I come at this from the other direction. I totally agree with that maniac that Double Stuf is garbage for heathens, but that’s only because the truth and light of the Mega Stuf was revealed to mankind in 2013.

I’m not even a socialist, but I find myself liking AOC more and more with everything I see from her. She’s obviously smart and media savvy, and – maybe most importantly of all – she’s the rare officeholder who seems to see the Republican Party without illusions and afford it the respect it deserves.* I live one the…

The you-score-it, you-convert-it thing is also common in casual rugby sevens leagues, in my experience.

“Ladies and gentlemen, Hooray for Everything invites you to join them in a salute to the greatest hemisphere on Earth, the Western Hemisphere: the dancin’est hemisphere of all!”

Truly inspired namework throughout. “Trashcan Lannister” might be my new favorite. Thank you, Damon, for blessing the world with this.

That makes sense. All the vodka people among my friends and family tend to mix it so how it tastes on its own isn’t usually a huge consideration as long as it’s not something actively gross like Rubinoff.

I can’t bring myself to spend more on vodka than the $20ish the big bottle of Svedka costs. You get quantity and it’s perfectly fine for mixing, best of both worlds.