He's also, until perhaps quite recently, a Republican. He spoke at the 2000 Republican Convention.

It also supposedly made $243 million!

Huh. I watched "Unbreakable" for the first time a few days ago and it idly crossed my mind to wonder if his films before "The 6th Sense" were any good.

Huh? Merkel is 62 and has plenty of experience.

It would piss people off by harming them. I'm not sure that is ever a good trade-off.

I hope the salmon ladder is their cattleya.

"I'd actually find it kinda funny if they had a mad "friends with benefits" affair before and whenever nobody's looking they'd start making out as a running gag."

I've been reading Conservative classics like Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative.

Shakesville had a great series of articles called Looking for Bernie. It wasn't just great analysis, but a great collection of articles and quotes on him. It very much influenced my view of him: he has always had that massive blindspot.

"They're really not much different then Trump's followers in their cult-like devotion."

Yeah, blaming uninspiring candidates for our low turnout is really silly. We always have low turnout. The issue is systemic. For instance, thanks to slavery electoral college votes depend on state population, not voter turnout. There is little to no incentive for states to make voting easy. Combine that with a history…

Yeah, if it were about facts, they wouldn't have voted for him in the first place.

Yeah, even apart from its effect on the election it's hard to respect people who voted for her because of their conscience when she is really fucking awful. Don't forget she's an Assad apologist.

From the Pajiba article:

Listen. If a black man who was always golfing could do the job, surely someone with good genes could too.

"presumably he had some degree of wit about him, right? Like, he was never competent, but he managed not to lose the entire family?"

In the same series of articles he says, "There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely."

For me, The Eyes of the Dragon is the one King book I like in a disappointing oeuvre. Haven't read it since high school though so who knows now what I would think.

You've seen the movie Tony Takitani, I hope. It's one of my favorites.

Give them hell instead.