The decisive element of the "redness" of the Rust Belt is less than 100,000 people across three states in a low turnout election where Democrats had particularly low turnout. Let's not shit ourselves.

I thought that went without saying, but sure.

Apropos of very little, the version of "Wichita Lineman" with Glen Campbell backed by the Stone Temple Pilots (it's on YouTube) is actually legitimately great.

I don't actually believe this, but I can't get this clip out of my head this past week: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Source I saw suggests that the live + 7 day viewership for average episodes of SNL this season has been 11+ million, and that this episode had greater live viewership than the average. Almost 4 million views already on the official YouTube video of the performance and an 8:1 likes to dislikes ratio. Only about 60…

I knew I could come here for lots of contrarian takes on why something that really resonated emotionally with a wide swath of people was actually tasteless and bad.

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

In a darker time in my life, I would sometimes perform a version of "Dress Rehearsal Rag" to unsuspecting coffeehouse open mic audiences. Being able to perform that on stage, (and later, when I had a band, Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours") was a really cathartic way to exorcise my own demons through someone else's…

Caring about stuff sure is uncool.

I always sing his name to the tune of Bender singing "hambone" from "The Late Philip J Fry"

Donna Brazile took leave from CNN once she became chair of the DNC (at the convention) so… dunno where that intel would have come from, exactly?

Uh huh. Two things: one, politicians draw the school districts. There is rarely an objective basis for how district boundaries are drawn, and even in those cases where they are based on another administrative boundary, that boundary itself is often arbitrary. In fact, in many instances, district or school catchment…

I'm sure they would feel like that.

More like Fasthand, amirite

Didn't Schumer say they're going to get rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS if the Dems win the Senate?

Sometimes they nominate the VP nominee, too. And people have pointed out that Pence sometimes seems to be running for the 2020 nomination rather than the 2016 Vice Presidency.