As much as we all mock William Jennings Bryan (for Scopes and being a three time loser, among other things), his having the Democrats swallow the populists, become a more ideological party, and blowing up the Gilded Age political structure (by losing badly, but still) was an underrated long term positive achievement…

Eh. It's hard to judge without recognizing the role that Canada always played (under Liberal and Conservative governments) as the go between for the US and Cuba. Even under Stephen Harper (the most right-wing Canadian leader in decades), Canada facilitated the recent US-Cuba thaw. So while it's not good, it's also…

Agreed. And Eden in the cabinet room obsessing before the film of Nasser while high as a kite (or whatever is going on with his medicine) clearly makes him look a dangerous fool.

I'm always surprised that for someone who looms semi-large in public memory (i.e. "SuperMac", "You've never had it so good," 'One-Nation Tory', he only served six years in office and as Tory leader. It's so miniscule compared to the much longer time spans that Churchill, Attlee, Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, and Cameron,…

Indeed, it's not until the 60s that the Tory Party had an actual format for how to change Party leadership. When Eden went bust, the Queen sent for MacMillian after consulting with Churchill and Salisbury, not because Parliament or the Tories explicitly, formally chose him. And MacMillian requested the Queen send for…

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If you kept getting arrested simply because of the color of your jacket, you'd be angry too!

Cn we also agree Hammond is overrated? Hartman's Clinton gets to the man so much better than his, who is mostly just generic Sketchy Horndog with an accent. (whereas Carvey is essentially using impressions as a way to create new characters. There's something Bush-like or Perot-like in them, but fundamentally it's just…

That stretch was probably the most technically proficient bunch of sketch comedians they ever had, with almost no wasted cast members.

His best quality, the one that really brought attention to him, was not being Colin Quinn.

Because if there's an example of something working right at the moment, it's Venezuela!

Look, it's not Trump's fault you had that godawful, season long plot line where nobody actually understood how Presidential elections work.

The paradox of listening to WHM in October:

The idea that we can 'make people wake up' to gun violence if we just show bloody pictures is pretty much belied by the fact that the anti-abortion nuts have been going around with photos of 'dead babies' to shove in people's faces for 40+ years and people are still committed to Roe v. Wade. 'Shock value' doesn't…

I'm sorry, I just can't buy Matheson as Reagan. The casting is just all wrong there. Back when they last made this movie ("The Day Reagan Was Shot" I think it was) they had Richard Crenna as Reagan and he was pretty great. They also smartly didn't focus on Reagan all that much: Once he's wounded and unconscious the…

"I think it's pretty typical of Hollywood writers to be enamored by quirks in succession law they don't really understand and then try to write stories about them despite lacking insight or an ability to think things through."

Except Woodrow Wilson's accomplishments (the real great spurt of regulation from the Progressive Era including everything from the Federal Reserve to the FTC to antitrust to the first real recognition of Labor Unions, reorienting American foreign policy towards global leadership and winning a World War (which, despite…

The Star Trek ones I found mediocre. Wow, the Enterprise-D looks different when they have to film it for a giant film screen as opposed to the quality of 1994-era TVs. That's some super trenchant criticism there. SFDebris blows them away from both a humor and criticism level.

Wow, way to quote only one Tweet, instead of the rest. Here's what Jesse actually says:

Yeah, but in practice the EC follows the popular vote. Some states move around in different directions, but despite tons of excitable news articles written about popular/electoral splits, it rarely happens. If Clinton or Trump are winning the national popular vote by even 2 to 3 points, that filters down into the…