Or "huh." "That three-day-old sushi was disgusting, huh." You don't hear it as a question as often, but it does seem to serve a similar function.

The Bob & Doug accent is more than anything an Ottawa Valley accent, in my opinion. There are certain elements of it that I've heard in people from Calgary, but it's 99.5% Carleton Place and other hamlets in that region.

Leaving aside the potential for national security catastrophe, I don't think that's true, actually. The Lewinsky affair may have been consensual, but there's still a huge power imbalance between an intern and his or her boss, even when the boss isn't POTUS. Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on a bed the Obamas slept…

I may have spoken too quickly. It was a budget "blueprint" that would apparently allow the ACA to be repealed, and the GOP rejected Dem amendments to keep coverage for pre-existing conditions, among other things. NYT story is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/201…®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

A couple of key provisions got voted to be repealed last night. Hope everyone has their representatives on speed dial.

Your second paragraph is what I think will happen. They will impeach him only if he refuses to rubber-stamp the laws they send to his penthouse on the weekends.

Sorry about your kitty, that sucks.

They're going to hold it over his head until the day he decides not to rubber stamp a law they send him.

Franken, thank you. I was sure there was someone I was forgetting. He so rarely grandstands that I was actually surprised to see him at the convention, especially with a fellow comedian. But yes, he is definitely one on the Democratic side.

In slightly happy news, more than 500 companies have either blocked or pledged to block Breitbart from their Google ad buy, including Visa and Virgin. Small victories, but take 'em where you can get 'em.

"It'll be like taking candy from a baby. Say, that sounds like a larf! Let's try it right now!"

It was just a tweet, so it's difficult to tell exactly what she meant, but I got the impression she was saying that "average Americans" are tired of being lectured by rich celebrities.

Yeah, Gen-X grew up as latchkey kids, so they became the generation of helicopter parents in reaction.

The only thing I would add to that is that the Millenials are a bigger cohort than the Xers and are likely to take over the available managerial positions over the heads of the Xers just out of sheer power of numbers. I'm an Xer and fully expect to see people younger than I am promoted ahead of me (have seen, already,…

There was a major market crash in '87, a recession in the early 90s, and another when the internet bubble burst. None of them came close to equalling the Great Recession, obviously, but they were trenches that are still affecting people my age.

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S…

At a screening of it last night, one of the hosts said afterwards "May we all have a friend in our lives like Griffin Dunne." That might have been my favourite part of the whole thing.

Except for the part where a fair few people did notice it, where it was made a point of in Bill Carter's book about the whole thing, and where Conan called Lopez to ask if he was all right with it.

Goddamn, Vedder was so good-looking back then. These days he's looking a little jaundiced.

Mrs Richard Schiff, everyone!