Potentially?

88 is also Chinese Internet slang for bye-bye, which has gotten me in trouble at least once.

B.A. Baracus.

I'm assuming something like mad cow disease, where a diseased brain will cause all those who eat the brain paste to, well, go mad.

This entire article on how Trump interacts with foreign governments is fascinating, but this was perhaps my favorite part.

it's ineffective force

A bit of good news, sort of, is that approval for the Syrian bombing is well below historic norms with 50% approving, 41% disapproving. Obviously that's still higher than one might like, but at least the average, everyday person doesn't seem to think Trump has become presidential by blowing up some dirt.

"American libertarianism is best understood as a reaction to the New Deal."

I really, unreasonably loved the random Thor videos with his roommate Daryl and it seems that's the spirit of the new movie.

A former friend of mine was a Sanders delegate. I'm not entirely sure if she thought he was going to win, but she did protest during the convention and then vote for Stein.

"he would have had to play the exact same game."

Yeah, I was never a huge Sanders fan but reading some of his proposed bills was still really disillusioning. It quickly became apparent he had no idea what he was legislating about.

:( Even though I just discovered him a few years ago, that is very sad.

Trump has sent a Navy strike group to the Korean peninsula as relations there have deteriorated further due both to worries about N. Korea's nuclear program and Trump's assertion that "If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will."

Violence in and of itself—like any action—sends no message. Trump ran on being unpredictable, but all that means is his words and actions can not be trusted and are essentially meaningless. The airstrike was a failure not just because it failed (less than 24 hours Syria was using it again) but because it literally…

I got a Fascism notice for this?

Just look at Europe if you want to see gays being thrown off of roofs. The Paris Massacre of 1961 for instance.

Heck, I'm not even sure they think Nixon et. al. did anything really wrong.

I wonder how much of Republican policy and whatnot has been driven by resentment over Watergate and the fact no Democratic president has done anything nearly as bad.

Too often I think we equate celebrities announcing they are gay with "coming out" to their friends and family. They're both potentially risky and scary, but they aren't the same even if we use the phrase to describe them.