My one relative who's still pro-Trump is the one who nearly died because she was uninsured and didn't go to the doctor when she needed it. Logic has no part of this equation.

And because being proactive about keeping people healthy is a lot cheaper than trying to give medical aid to them once they're really sick, but only people with health insurance do preventative care.

So far, my pop culture indoctrination of my toddler has been really successful - her favorite shows are Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, and Steven Universe :) But, definitely doesn't have the attention span for a real movie theater experience yet.

Just like us! I was the one with the guilt-tripping Catholic mom, my husband's the atheist who humored his fiance and put up with pre-Cana (although the one we found was actually not bad at all). My mom literally said that she'd cry herself to sleep at night if I didn't get married in the church, but it's my wedding…

Try a university chapel. They count for Catholics, but are multi-denominational. We didn't get any trouble from the priest at the MIT chapel. If you went to college, ask the Catholic priest there.
And, if you're in the major metropolitan area, some of the more liberal Catholic churches (an oxymoron if I ever heard…

It's selective reading on par with when someone jokingly takes most of the words out of a review on AVC to make it sound like an actor is doing something improbable and sexual, only, sadly, not a joke.

And their obligations to any children that result from their policies ends the second that kid takes his or her first breath.

Given how much they claim to love the bible, they sure demonstrate only a passing familiarity with it. Sure, a passage that allows them to claim a free pass on their hatred towards others, they can spout off verbatim, but they do terrible on actual reading comprehension. I mean, how much of the new testament have…

What I'm saying is, the RNC's actions aren't hypothetical, and they're much more damning than the DNC's.

Except the DNC stuff, while embarrassing and distracting, didn't show misconduct, or the reopened FBI investigation would have found something. *Misconduct* is when your campaign staffers meet with a foreign power who is oh so coincidentally working to discredit your opponent.

I'm sure the RNC (whose emails also got hacked) had plenty of embarrassing stuff in their emails also, but someone (*cough*Russia!*cough*) made the conscious decision to only release the DNC's, and hold the RNC's back for future blackmail purposes.

I know people who considered him a professional colleague (back when he was a security researcher, before he became this bizarre one man show), and while they really hope he's not a rapist, a lot of them, if they're honest with themselves, admit that that's something that can go hand in hand with the megalomaniac…

If I recall correctly, there were documents he leaked early on that named specific names of people working overseas. Everyone got pulled out before something bad happened, but he didn't warn anyone or do anything to protect those named, and the fact that no one was hurt was more in spite of his actions than anything…

Glenn Greenwald is awful - I've personally heard him say "I know it isn't true, but it makes a better story" and then publish something he knew to be incorrect. (Of course, he did edit Wikipedia to manufacture a "source" to cite, so that's all on the up and up…)

Here's a radical thought. Both things can be bad! Being against Russia's LGBT policies, for example, does not in any way imply an opinion about the drone program.

The larger hacker group that supported him initially deserted en masse when they realized how much partiality was going into his decisions regarding Russian documents. He might like to think that he kicked them out, but a lot just left.

But wasn't his medical record actually not that good? He was sued for malpractice what, 8 times, and pushed a lot of ethical boundaries.

I'd imagine that a lot of the AVC writers didn't see it until a lot later, though, so it didn't have that context for them at the time. Still, as you say, this is much closer to the film's original context - any unpleasant feelings that brings up are intentional.

This reminds me of that bit in Friends where Phoebe says the best romantic song is that one about the guy from "Who's the Boss?" - you know, "Hold me closer, Tony Danza…"

As a kid, those incorrect lyric made sense to me - if you were up all night, you need to sleep sometime, right?