Yeah, that was pretty much the exact reasoning guiding my purchasing decision.

I suspect we agree like 99% of the way. (Which, as good leftists, means we'll ignore all that and fight to the death over that final 1%.) And yep, the big thing you can say for Sanders now and Obama in 07-08 (and maybe even *shudder* John Edwards as well, though his turning out to be an all-time odious human being…

In the meantime, at least Canada seems vaguely governable. Then again, the US has kind of broken the curve there…

I'm not even sure I'm a wrestling fan! (I think I'll know for sure once I've checked out this Shawn Michaels blu-ray I just bought.) But who doesn't love Stone Cold? He's the original badass!

I'm generally a proponent of Westminster-style parliamentary democracy — sure as hell seems to work a lot better than the Frankenstein's monster of a system we've cobbled together in the US — but it does feel like, at least in the modern era, it's a bad fit to work out representation on a…

Like, I'm not saying the Democrats would have done significantly better if they'd run on Obama's record in 2014 (which, again, I realize isn't exactly a "left" record), but it sure as hell couldn't have gone worse than an entire slate of candidates pretending they had never heard of the most significant (for better or…

What's going on with the NDP collapse? Were their previous gains somehow illusory, or was way more of their success tied up in the individual skills/charms/what-have-you of Jack Layton than their supporters might have hoped?

There's probably also a cyclical nature to all this. There was serious Harper fatigue after 10 years that there just wasn't for Cameron after 5; I don't remember how negative Harper's previous campaigns were, but he was certainly helped by the fact that the Liberal Party was in utter disarray, which tracks pretty…

Honestly, if I were going to die on a hill arguing that a fourth country is part of Scandinavia, it'd probably be Iceland ahead of Finland. I mean, I see immediately why that's wrong, but the cultural/historical/linguistic ties are much much stronger there.

You know, I take your point, though I actually wonder how well that story would translate to the visual medium. I kind of feel like that actually is the kind of complicated, multifacted story that works best with the kind of persistent investigative print reporting that Deadspin's been doing.

A WOT writer forget one of the shows? I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE THAT.

Yeah, in a completely value-neutral sense, I could have sworn that was David Cameron's winning platform this time around.

You may quite literally be the only person who is enjoying me throwing random Attitude Era clips into the What's On Tonight listings, which admittedly is the dumbest thing I've ever done in my professional writing career. One person enjoying this is honestly one more person than I needed to keep this thing going.

This is my favorite one I've been a part of.

I like that you give me requests! I haven't forgotten Dude Love either. We'll all get there on this crazy journey together.

I'm trying to turn the "In Case You Missed It" section into a weird kind of dada-esque outsider art, or some shit.

Honestly, we just need to finally get The Lex Luthor Show off the ground.

There's only one king in this comment thread, and it's Reposted Daily Mail Comments.

That's totally cool, as I labor under no delusion that everyone should love and respect my team. I'm not from St. Louis, after all.

Probably the same kind of people who think Provel is cheese.