I don't think corporations-are-people for the purposes of free speech is a big problem. The problem is that there are so many loopholes in campaign finance and advertising rules, an area that, based on other laws, we're clearly ok with making a lot of restrictions to speech in, as long as those restrictions are in no…

That's just a hurtful stereotype. Not everyone on these gay cruises is having gay sex with everyone, or even anyone, else.

Yeah it's weird. Some of it i can explain via a religious divide, but i share a lot of their other values and circumstances, and it's just like the same experience leads each of us to virulently different conclusions on almost every issue. It's unsettling because knowing it's possible to unknowingly have your entire…

Well they don't die of old age. She may have doomed them to not propagate further in order to save their prey, but that doesn't have quite the same implications it does for a fully mortal species.

I've enjoyed the Hillary ad strategy of just putting up Donald Trump quotes with some mostly unrelated negative statement.

I think they believe the absence of white privilege is what got them, but i'm not that sure it really is. The people and practicies they're suddenly competing with and losing aren't in this country at all, legally or otherwise, and black and latino Americans in similar situations aren't exactly riding high at their…

Well when you want to make the point that you don't hate all republicans, you gotta pick somebody concrete to point at and not hate. And the options for that role are not good.

Well the government, purposely and for good reasons, tends towards inaction on tightly contested issues and divided branches. And tea-party style obstructionism has potentially broken that system in a way that just having a majority of offices or a strong leader or whatever doesn't fix, by deciding every issue is…

The Chris Christie show trials were definitely hard to watch. The whole convention's theme seems to be less about how Donald Trump is a good nominee and more about how everyone but Donald Trump is trying to murder you, and only Donald Trump can potentially stop them.

Well at least that sounds entertaining.

I have extremely mixed feelings about her on a song-to-song basis.

Still owned by Sony thanks to a token concession in the settlement.

I'm sad that it took an obituary to let me know how much quality stuff i've enjoyed that this guy was involved in before the late-career decline i was much more familiar with/associated more strongly with his name.

You're probably right. I'm probably just reacting to what a painful and adult topic it is, and missing that it's not "adult" in the euphemistic sense that gets censored. I do think they get away with a lot thanks to the metaphor elsewhere, but on reflection this isn't one of those places.

The "only" there sure makes it seem like the actual people paving the way were the serious news organizations leaving this vacuum in the first place.

See i'd say the desk segments need him most and are conveniently where he would fit best.

You get a little of this here and there on sitcoms, but Colbert really was the most reliable source of these jokes that don't seem like they'll ever lose relevancy in our culture.

Even if it had been original, it would be weird to offer a bunch of platitudes about the value of hard work and honesty, given who she's there with.

Some of it's this divide between who was making culture for a "generation" and who was absorbing it. Cool young performers and writers and stuff of a given moment are usually somewhere in their 20s, contemporaneous cool audiences are like 13-18.

"There used to be a certain amount of solidity in all things, but now what happens? Everything is exposed to the public gaze, veils are thrown back, every wound is probed by careless fingers. We are for ever present at an orgy of scandalous revelations. Parents blush when they remember their old-fashioned morality."