Agreed. But federalism is as important to the republic as bulkheads to a great ship: a few compartments may flood with idiocy, but the SS USA stays afloat. This may seem cruel to some people, but it's far preferable to a system where a) Washington, D.C. controls too much money/people/land/institutions b) states with a…

Gandhi as a nuke-loving bastard is probably my favorite videogame 'easter egg' ever (although that's perhaps stretching the definition — maybe it's a trope at this point).

Is it so they can sell the world leaders we know and love (and hate *looks at Gandhi*) as DLC?

The only 'funny' thing about the Dyn DDoS is that someone on Hacker News showed the DNS servers for Twitter and other sites. It was A.Dyn, B.Dyn, etc. So if Dyn itself went down, no DNS resolution.

Were they conducting the interview from her fainting couch?

Eh, that's what happens when you attempt to centrally manage 310+ million citizens from Washington, D.C. If only the Framers devised a system whereby government was subdivided into smaller areas, so comparatively smaller groups of people could form republican governments that best align with their particular…

Yeah, ever since Civ III, I learned to wait at least a year, if not two, for the expansions, patches, user mods, etc. to arrive before giving Sid any money.

Please do the needful and link to said articles.

What gives him more credibility is that he was a cop for years before becoming a therapist. My thought was they're sending in the tough love guy to call bullshit because they don't want to see Misty go totally off the rails.

The "system" in the show is pretty nuanced, at least by television standards. Sure, you have cops on the mob payroll, but then you have situations where working *within* the system in all likelihood would've produced a better outcome. So there's this constant menace of, "Is it safe to trust the cops this time, or go…

I think Obama is going to love NOT being president. He's witty, self-deprecating, smart, and has a wide range of interests. I mean he can pretty much do whatever he wants — and it's going to be great.

Interesting. As governor of what's now Northern Turkey, Pliny the Younger received instructions from Rome to more or less leave Christians alone IF they swore allegiance to the emperor. But they were to be executed if they refused. IIRC, that epistle is one of the earliest 'official' documents mentioning Christians,…

"You fucking pussies." - Saint Peter (being crucified upside down) to American Christians

Age of Ultron is a better movie, but that's because the first Avengers doesn't hold up after repeat viewings. (Even if seeing it in theaters was really damn fun.)

Vote Trump on Decembruary 38th!

Every guy in NYC unloading a truck at a warehouse, selling hot dogs, or playing a pickup game of basketball has been on L&O *at least* three times. So yeah, that's pretty fucking sad.

Cheap is relative. OGs have been drinking store-brand seltzer for years and like it.

This is correct, but only if it's Cary Grant doing one of his classic pratfalls.

THIS x1000. I used to watch at least one football game a week, but stopped a few years ago for some reason.

Trump is bastard man; why America hate?