My grandfather was a shepherd. There are still shepherds.

OK, wishful thinking. Next question: how are there two of you?

I'd rather watch this than a regular game show. Faint praise, and it feels like one step closer to Running Man. I don't want to live in Running Man.

So is "Marijuana" a type of feature now? There's a logo in the picture.

If it were anyone but Trump, I might be feeling conflicted this year. But Trump ensures very few Democrats crossing over.

Both choices are awful. We're fucked.

I'd love to but it doesn't seem to be on Netflix.

He became a history teacher.

I was working for a trucking company, negotiating on the phone to get some hazmat freight admitted to Canada for disposal. The guy on the other end said "hey man, someone just bombed the Pentagon." Then it was my boss who told me one of the towers had fallen. I remember a conversation about how odd it would be to…

Firefly!

The guy I was talking with turned out to be liberal and bought me a drink.

That game has good storylines though:

People have a right to judge him but other people also have a right to judge them. At least we're talking about it, which is a thing he accomplished.

I don't see how the ubiquity changes anything. It's still decoration, it's still ostentatious flair.

EDIT, you already know about the God part. I've always left it out, but otherwise don't have a problem with reciting the pledge. I don't think it rises to jingoism.

What is a prototypical Italian chef? One that's still in an early design phase?

Attention management:

All they want is power and they've convinced themselves that patriotism justifies their desires and actions in some fundamental conceptual way. Actual patriotism has nothing to do with it, these guys were openly trying to steal from America.

In vintage base ball lingo, ginger means kickass.

I don't think anything's tapering off just yet. Last night was the first real opportunity for fans to talk about it at bars, and I'm sorry to report it did not go well for Kaep where I was sitting. Me, I had just gotten there and wasn't in the mood to debate anyone. Later, drunker, I spoke in support of BLM when…