Nah, his arms seem okay, just his tiny hands.

Yes! He won't be elected.

One British conservative MP doing the American talk show rounds likes "Vote for Pedro" from Napoleon Dynamite: she said it in on Bill Maher, and that's her Twitter wall background. Might as well: Vote for Pedro.

I disagree that he has a chance of winning. I don't believe he even wants to win at this point, his campaign is in operational shambles, and he keeps saying ridiculous, offensive things, I think on purpose to tank himself.

Ugh, sorry—by kids I mean adults with parents. We're all kids of parents.

Sure. Sorry if I made you explain your mother. I'm not American, with liberal parents (who sometimes racial stereotype based on what they see in downtown LA), and I've encountered a lot of kids with parents like yours. It's fine. As you said, they grew up with white people, as did mine, actually, but in a different…

Good idea. Characteristic of him to appoint a foul-mouthed baby to a cabinet position. And since you're a baby with tiny arms and not being able to walk and all, you'd be spared the humiliation of getting him McDonald's like Chris Christie, the adult man-baby, has to every night.

I think some of his supporters know how awful he is as a businessman but are electing him out of spite so that he screws up Washington enough with his incompetence that the Republican Party will have to listen to their (economically valid) concerns next time. Maybe? We'd need a few polls on this!

Hey, for one of the ads, I'm getting a (fit) shirtless guy in bed eating a plate of pastries. The universal condition. But I can do that with any sheets. You've failed in persuading me to click on your ad, Sheet Company.

What good is later, frankly, if you can't do the hard stuff, later?

To which you undoubtedly thought but did not say, since she's your mother: "Yeah but the effects of the racism that caused slavery were put in our institutions, socioeconomic policies, and politics, so that they systematically pervade to this day all aspects of American life." Though much more articulately I'm sure.…

"Waffles! We must have waffles!"—Devil-looking Tom Hanks.

Opportunity to post this quote I recently found, from the Ancient Roman author Petronius: "Everything in moderation, including moderation." So go ahead, eat those Quarter Pounders and fries. You can work it off and eat healthier later.

Agreed, but it's important to be nuanced about this and not fall into binary thinking. Corporate media for all its faults is much more an accurate teller of information than conservative media. It needs to go back to being a public good, mitigate its biases towards sensationalism and conflict, but for many, it's their…

Yeah, I should too. Disquis isn't a natural part of the commenting ecosystem; you can kill it.

Ha! Good point. I admit to not thinking of that.

Right, facts and logic should work for altruistic, moral ends. When people say government should be more scientific ( like I do), we mean using evidence based thinking and the testing of laws for public good ends.

Touche. Or should I say Touchdown.

I read the book and saw the film this summer. Methinks the best film adaptation of his novels I've read (with the exception of the film version of Matlida, which I haven't seen. Mara Wilson's still the same age, right?). Anjelica Huston is delightfully hammy, and I loved her orgasmic shake when Bruno goes to her. The…

This has been true and pointed out from the beginning of the series, but I thought of it again during tonight's show: how great that national problems and damaging policies (motivated by the business lobby) are being satirized, instead of just politics and political media. Also how sad that it took this long to…