Yeah, the entire Philly area has good pizza. I've lived in Philly and lived in NYC and honestly, the pizza is more or less the same. You have a whole bunch of Italians swarmed into an area about a hundred years ago, and now you have good pizza. Done and done.

That sounds like the makings of an excellent (or at least cathartic) SNL sketch.

Can anyone with more political knowledge than me explain the rule that they used to kick her out? You're not allowed to say anything bad about a fellow Senator? So they weren't allowed to say anything negative about the guy they're trying to vote on for AG? That seems… contraproductive* to an honest debate on…

Although its surrounding counties voted from Trump, Atlantic County went for HIllary. It's as if everyone there had some sort of evidence* that Trump is crappy at running businesses…

I got an almost exactly identical one from Pat Toomey, but with an extra paragraph at the end about how we're going to take our country into a new, better direction. So basically "I'm ignoring your request and also I'm pretending that you agree with me on the issues even though you obviously don't, as per the letter…

I had a Congressional-letter-writing day last weekend and it took all of my restraint not to begin the first one with "Dear Asshat Paul Ryan…"

I've said before that the best part of Voyager is that it's where Star Trek finally mastered writing female characters. They got a good start on DS9. Kira was fantastic, but I feel like Dax was okay only because at first the writers were like "But don't worry, she used to be a dude, so just write her like a dude, but,…

I agree. I'd also love to see some drunken rambling in non-English languges with drunken subtitles.

I've been watching a lot of Drunk History since the election. It weirdly makes me feel better about America. They're doing good work on that show.

I wrote Amazon a strongly-worded e-mail from my logged-in account, detailing our long history that began with teenaged-me in a podunk town with limited video store options ordering a copy of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet on (double) video cassette in the late 20th century, and ending with my current boycott of buying…

Hey now. The Koch brothers paid 3 million dollars to get Toomey elected. You wouldn't want all that money to go to waste, would you?

Honestly, I think the way that the world is going right now, I would actually be kind of comforted by confirmation of the existence of creepy ghosts. Like, if creepy ghosts can exist, then maybe also a wizard can save us or aliens can abduct all of the bad guys or something.

Plus Greenpeace followed Rubio around with a spine that one time which was one of the few times I've laughed in the last few weeks.

Gotcha. One of my post-Trump resolutions is to try to be a louder moderate-to-progressive Christian in an attempt to take the conversation back from the more extremist ones. Sometimes I get a little too gung-ho ;)

We are! (Well, I'm more of a progressive Christian, I suppose). Anyhoo, here's the US Council of Bishops*: http://www.usccb.org/news/2…

For a bit of a pick-me-up, I recommend reading/watching the responses of various sanctuary mayors (Boston, Philly, NYC, etc.) because they are not backing down. And it's a nice reminder of what real leadership actually looks like.

I read that and then immediately went out and got a subscription to the Washington Post (already subscribed to the NYT).

I was following the Philly protests online, and I'd like to give a shout-out to the guy carrying the sign that said "Yo Trump, Fuck you from the City of Brotherly Love" which wins the award for "Most Philly Protest Sign of All Time."

There should be a rule that before you are allowed to post the words "fake news" you first must be able to prove that you can at least pronounce the word "epistemology." Like one of those breathalyzer car ignition locks, but for pronunciation and your keyboard.

I know I'm late to the party today (as usual), but in the wake of these developments, I'd like to throw out the suggestion of personal divestment from fossil fuels. I'm giving it a whirl. First step is to pull all my money out of Major National Bank (that is funding DAPL) and put it somewhere else. Then try to work…