D'oh!

-20 Chafee

1 O'Malley

I say when in doubt, go with secondary or tertiary Simpsons characters: Krusty, Fat Tony, Sideshow Bob, Duffman, Disco Stu, Otto, Blinky, Professor Frink, Kang, Kodos, Arnie Pye, Rich Texan, Smithers, Mr. Teeny, and Ranier Wolfcastle all make great and/or hilarious dog names.

I'm glad I'm not neighbors with the dude who named his dog Dahmer.

Best American Story and Best Fight Against The System seem… vague.

I realize that I am very late to this party, but I have the following two opinions regarding the sandwich status of hot dogs:

I have a copy of The Sharks of North American Waters. Am I living in a Wes Anderson movie?

And also made the acronym sound like the cough of someone with pneumonia.

Hughes, ACA stands for Affordable Care Act, not American Care Act. AHCA is the American Healthcare Act.

Again, parties are really just proxy labels for where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum. Everybody has their own ideological identity and as a consequence designates themselves with a party label based on their affinity for that party, whether they are a politician or just a voter. If someone tends to…

I mean, I'm registered as a Democrat, but I can vote for Republicans or Independents if I want. I didn't have to pay dues or anything. Electoral parties are barely institutions at all. American parties really are just masses of non-politicians that lump themselves into vague political groupings. To the extent that…

Hey, without us you would be completely guillotine-less.

Sometimes people think I am the PC police, but sometimes the PC police think I'm a troll. Really I'm just a liberal leftist who can't figure out why nobody understands my politics. It's really the least byzantine political philosophy out there, I think.

Odds or Stephvens?

I interpreted all of those as vulgar, but not offensive. Is that strange?

You think it would be easier to know every senator and congressperson's stance on every issue without the help of party labels and the left-right continuum? But right now I can just think:

I think it's funny because both Putin and Trump think being called gay is an insult, but the rest of us don't, not that the scenario would be nonconsensual

Oh, like when everyone "boycotted" starbucks by buying coffee?

Left and right have never been strictly accurate descriptors of most people's political leanings, but they are used because the are a helpful shorthand for describing reasonably coherent (or sometimes incoherent but still widely held) schools of political thought, as they always have been. Even more particular…