I'm way late to the party, but I think the only way to read it that way is if you already believe that *giving* a BJ is somehow demeaning. Which it isn't, except to homophobic people.

I could do without your romantic idealization. I *teach* history, and I'm well aware of the nuances involved in its myriad lessons. I'm not attached to capitalist dogma, and I criticize the excesses and failures of all governments and social institutions, regardless of their origin.

As Jay S. said, it's the hypocrisy of Republicans who ranted on and on about President Obama's golfing and vacations, and are now silent about Trump golfing far more often, and the fact that Trump's travel costs already exceed those of the entire first year of the Obama administration. On top of that, Trump himself…

I don't hate him. The Trump interview pissed me off, but I didn't care for his act before that, either.

That is an appalling whitewashing of history. Your apologia for totalitarians who happen to be communist ignores clear evidence that their policies were indeed meant to kill off whole classes of opponents.

Tangentially related: I *loved* the New Yorker cover after Obergefell.

I don't think Syrian airmen are protecting my way of life.

Newsweek, too. It was a four-page insert that unfolded. I still have it.

I think you're mixing up "Primary Colors," in which John Travolta played a Bill Clinton-esque governor accused of an affair during a presidential campaign, with "Wag the Dog," when Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman cooked up a fake war with Albania in order to save the approval ratings of a president accused of making…

What it might do, though, is stop the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. Preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction is a core security interest of the United States. We do not want to live in a world where states can use CW with impunity. That would encourage their proliferation and use,…

Assuming this isn't some test of Poe's Law… To point out the blindingly obvious, the Muslims who want to come here are, by and large, trying to get away from the people who want to throw gay people off buildings. They want a more open society than groups like ISIS allow. In fact, some of the people trying to reach…

The Panamera isn't pretty, but I can't get too worked up about the extension of the brand. What Porsche represents doesn't have to be a static thing. They're not even the first sports car company to start building sedans: Maserati did it a long time ago with the Quattroporte.

So your thesis is that every single Congressional Republican is a craven opportunist who can't put country ahead of party? What a reductive mode of thinking. That kind of blanket generalization is as bad what many Republican says of "liberals."

I've never been called a raving loon before. It's kind of thrilling.

And here it is…

The casualty rate for German U-boat crews was about 75% overall. It worsened over the course of the war.

While a nuclear war is not particularly likely, the possibility of President Trump starting a war with Iran is quite conceivable. The "special relationship" makes that a particular concern for the British.

If you want a very unsettling trip down the wiki wormhole, go read about ducks, their raping ways, and their 36-inch corkscrew penises. Just don't say you weren't forewarned.

In fairness, a dinosaur did eat their lawyer, so maybe they weren't fully aware of their liability.

Quite so. I doubt the surface groups could have done so without coming under serious air assault. However, the missile had a range of over 600 km (350+ miles), so they could have engaged from considerable distances, but that would also give more warning to employ countermeasures.