It remains bizarre that Kasich tried to pivot to the center before the primaries, when he should have realized he could have stood at least a better shot running as the rock-ribbed, fire-breathing conservative he actually is in the primary, then banking on the media to legitimize him as plausibly moderate come the…

Oh, for sure, I agree with all that, and certainly a nuanced perspective like this is important in understanding how their policies differ from a functional perspective. I suppose I'm looking at this in more nakedly moralistic terms, in that one kind of racist/sexist/anti-LGBT social issues pandering doesn't seem…

Honestly, I'm probably more of an angry feminist than a trade unionist anyway, but I keep that descriptor for rhythm reasons and because it better fits the UK-inflected, Stewart Lee-influenced thing I'm going for.

"You don't like me, and I don't like you…"
"I actually have no problem with you, I thought we had a good thing going."
"Nah, I'm starting to sour on you, you're starting to bug me."

I haven't seen those, but if the overall description we're using is "absolutely, heartbreaking devastating, in a way that is totally intrinsic to the art and cannot be separated or abstracted in a rewatch," then… yes, pretty much.

Did you see him, Kevin Owens, and Del Rio riffing backstage before their six-man tag the other week? Early favorite for funniest TV moment of 2016.

Nakamura is my #1 pick to retire Taker at Mania.

Grave of the Fireflies is better, but I'd put it in the same category as The Wrestler, which I've described as "an excellent movie I very much look forward to never, ever seeing again."

LaToya, I'd retire tomorrow if Chris Jericho personally called me a stupid idiot. YOU KNOW THIS.

After 2008 and 2012, I don't think we should ever underestimate how impossible it is to fashion the modern Republican platform into a coherent general election message — W.'s method of "I'm just a likeable idiot" was probably the most effective method, honestly — but I think there's a decent argument that the…

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Honestly, I kinda consider his ignorance of basic civics to be an asset from a damage mitigation standpoint. I can easily envision a scenario where a President Trump is so incompetent and toxic that he's utterly stonewalled by both parties until he just sort of loses interest in governing. On the other hand, someone…

I was hoping you had the inside scoop that, like, the Capitals were going to cash in their MITB contract and turn the finals into a triple threat. THE WAY LORD STANDLEY INTENDED.

That's just standard operating procedure around here, for goodness knows what reason. Something about the royal we, too.

Yeah, but I can totally believe said elites don't really see the working class as anything more than an abstraction that issues forth into existence every four years and then promptly evaporates.

I mean "materially better" in the sense of offering policies that a whinging lefty socialist trade unionist stereotype like me who is only barely okay-ish with Clinton could stomach four years of. Whatever the non-Trump candidates gain in "seriousness" — and I've read enough profiles on Rubio to get the sense even his…

For a mix of game theory and "I'm pretty sure the horrible shit he says is an incredibly cynically calculated con, as opposed to horrible shit he actually earnestly believes" reasons, I'd take Trump over Rubio. I don't feel *quite* as strongly about that as Trump over Cruz, but still.

Especially since it would take a hell of a lot of doing for this to be a finale…

Say whatever you want about Marco Rubio… but yes, he certainly was present.

The thing is, to what extent does something have to be marginally true before it stops being false? Like, I don't for one second think this is some long con that Trump is in on, or even an intentional long con that he's been tricked into, but I can totally imagine more than one of his many Democrat friends humoring…