Actually did ruin the film for me. Worse, it's become very hard to find the theatrical cut.

I don't know, I mean, as a society we've all agreed that free speech has some limits. There are some even in the U.S., and most Western democracies have more than we do. I think maybe "expresses an ideology that, if enacted, would subvert the system that ensures the right to free speech along with most other…

It's an off-the-rack $3600 Gucci coat, and the design was apparently inspired by the British flag. Not joking.

It would be very hard to top Buchanan and Johnson. I mean, I personally hate Jackson and always have going back to like, high school US history, but Buchanan and Johnson are even worse..

also with the candy conversation hearts this time of year.

I mean, one of their biggest hits ("Never Let You Go") wasn't on this album…

Yeah. Yale is in New Haven, but so is a lot of ugly poverty.

"[Monster Trucks] is especially potent … The movie … should have even more fans."

Me too. I think he plays that one all the time at shows too, and given its relative obscurity, you'd think he'd have to like it a lot to keep doing that.

It's cool that you don't think you're a troll, but going into a thread full of music fans and saying that Dylan sucks is a troll move, and continuing to advance an argument that is not more complex than "but he sucks" when people disagree with you is also a troll move. I know what the broad contours of a thoughtful…

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My understanding of the numbers is that if Hillary'd gotten the percentage of minority turnout in urban PA/MI/WI to turn out that Obama got, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. So yeah, I would say backing away from that kind of outreach does the Democrats no favors.

My ex's grandfather had been a Hitler Youth, (which, yes, was pretty much mandatory in a just-following-orders sort of way, but still), but he definitely held on to some… unseemly racial views.

It kind of has a Fauxlivia (Fringe) vibe.

Yes, it is. I played a date of it in 2009 or 2010. It was a weird experience.

Her Undercover was excellent. I almost got to see her at a tiny venue here in Providence this fall but it sold out like a week before the show as she started to accumulate buzz.

My closest neighborhood bar literally only has macrobrews and IPAs on draft, and this is far from the only bar where I've encountered this.

That Nixon sabotaged the talks isn't really news — it was first reported by Eric Redman in Rolling Stone in 1975. The only news is that the Haldeman notes provide additional concrete evidence, but the story was already widely accepted as fact.

Reminder: the median Trump voter is wealthier than the median American. Which is not to say that "poor" Americans didn't vote for him, they did, but I just like to push back on that "salt of the earth" narrative when I can.

My in-laws seem to be trying to give away all of their money before anyone has a chance to inherit it. Which is nice at Christmas, less nice for the version of me that ever wants to buy a house or send my hypothetical children to college.