I don’t even think you need to go with “The South Won” to tell an interesting story. Could just go with them getting astalemate, gaining some bit of sovereignty, and becoming isolated and backwards from the rest of the world

The theory is that your digestive system basically loses its ability to easily process gluten. The causes are speculative, but perhaps related to stomach flora or changes in stomach receptors. How long it takes and how often this happens is also unknown, but it does occur.

An old gutterpunk friend of mine refers to this as “spacebag” due to it’s shiny metallic surface.

This is a pretty fantastic insight, Ron Swanson of Westeros, and one I hadn’t considered. You deserve all of my internets for the day.

Based on current evidence, I’d have to say they failed spectacularly.

What are we establishing as our baseline for “op-ed” columnists? I think there are a host of good political writers who write sort of a mix of political coverage jammed together with opinion pieces. Are those op-eds, or something else? I agree with you on straightforward, “traditional” op-ed columnists.

Whatever happened to Robert Reich?

It looks like they’re likely to move Josh Barro to a regular column, which would be good (but he’s everywhere nowadays: NYT, NPR, MSNBC, Business Insider). Lord knows when he finds time to actually write.

Douthat wants people to fuck, he just wants them to be married and Catholic and not using birth control.

I’m kinda with you on Frum, but he maintains some very robustly (and I think, incorrect) foreign policy views.

Totally.

Of all of the conservatives who have turned to rejecting Trump root-and-branch, Rubin was actually the most surprising to me. Frum’s been an antagonist of the Republican Party almost since the day he left the White House, so it’s no surprise that he’d hate Trump. I also have a sneaking suspicion that he’s (mostly) a…

Liz Spayd has been largely fucking awful as the Times’ Public Editor, so I was a little surprised to see this, actually.

Mine, too. I was a little surprised to see it was Tumulty, though.

Calling her “mother” is kind of weird, but not all that weird, if it’s like, in front of your kids, I guess. But sitting at a professional dinner with your colleagues? That’s extraordinarily strange, and I’d consider that person extremely unprofessional and the kind of person I’d go to great lengths to avoid working…

Democrats still hold the ultimate responsibility for abandoning Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy and failing to heed the warnings of 2010, 2012, and 2014, but this particular cycle they were fucked just about any way they tried to move.

I can’t imagine it either, but we’ve got three weeks to find out. I find it difficult to believe this is Farenthold’s last scoop of the election.

Now it won’t be the same with every relationship but for me and my wife, good communication has only made our bond stronger.

Hey there, Dead In Bed - Harris’ advice is spot-on. I have (very recently) initiated a divorce after 8 years in a relationship and 6 years of marriage with my wife, whom I had a very similar relationship with. We have always been very tight friends, good partners, etc.; but our sexual relationship has always been…

If they promise not to make a difference, then why have ‘em?