Libertarian realist is right up there with Marxist realist. It's not a coincidence that so many neoconservatives and libertarians started out hard-line communists.

Not just once, it was a couple of times, including one time when another dude (or bloke, as I gather they're called across the pond) had to hold the pig's head while he did it. Though, from what I read about the clubs back when that story bloke, irrumatio with a hogshead was probably among the least offensive things…

That would explain why he flaps his hands around so much during debates. He's getting ready to say something in his native tongue, but then remembers that he's obligated to speak with his mouth.

So, where in that source is a 37% margin for any group of Asian Americans?

You kind of wander around here, so apologies for the grab bag response.

Conservatives are generally not funny because they are largely punching down, which is an ugly sight for most people. Conservative humor has traditionally been, and remains, of the "thinly veiled bigotry" and "reassuring the privileged of the rightness of others' misery" variety.

Warren Harding is the "at least one," and is pretty close to your description of a hypothetical Trump Presidency. Harding was, by all accounts, an idiot. Basically all he did as President is allow his cabinet to steal bushels of money and chase tail. When he died—a mere two and a half years into his presidency—his…

Really? As a(n older) Millennial, I have always felt like Gen X was our big brother/sister. Like, we're basically just a more earnest version of you guys.

That describes at least one, and probably two, presidents in the last 100 years.

The closest star is Sol, about 149.6 million kilometers from Earth (give or take about 3 million kilometers depending on where Earth is in its orbit). After that, people usually think of Alpha Centauri, about 41 trillion (4.1 X 10^13) kilometers away, but in reality Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, so you…

I think I've got it. Local accents are going away, but gross regional accents (northeast/southeast/midwest/west coast) with distinctive features may be developing? Something like that?

Oh please, before 2005 the White Sox's last World Series pennant was in 1917. Their drought is second only to the Cubs, and is two years longer than the Red Sox's. That's hardly "actually being able to win championships."

It's pretty much what it sounds like. Pennsylvania has been famously described as "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between." Pennsyltucky even has its own wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Do you have a source for that? Because, anecdotally, I have seen a serious decline in accents in my lifetime in the New York region, and especially in the city. You can even see it in individual families: the parents will have a distinctive regional (or even neighborhood) accent, and their children will have less of…

In spite of all the written dialect, this is literally the first thing in the thread I read in a Boston accent.

I'm on the outside of the Millennial cohort, b. 1983, and I have a sense of generational identity with maybe three years on either side of me. Born in the '70s is Gen X to me, born in the '90s is I Can't Believe You're Old Enough To Drink, Go Away. Things moved so fast 1980 - 2000 that lumping 20+ years together…

There's no clean break. 1983 has been the typical cut-off year because people born in that year reached the age of maturity at the (real) turn of the millennium, but recall that "Millennial" itself is a post-millennial coinage. In the '80s no one talked about the generation that is now called Millennial, because the…

Yes, the words switched definitions several centuries ago. No, that doesn't change the point. The three examples I gave were not exact analogies: they are mistakes that people make because they don't know what they're doing. No one intentionally says "infer" when they mean "imply", they just don't know any better. …

You can cling to the alternative definition that has been included in dictionaries, caveated with a euphemistically titled "usage note," but it's still on the same level as supposably or alot or "infer" in the sense of "imply". No one uses any of those as a usage choice. They do it because they're ignorant.

No, this is wrong. People are using the word incorrectly, and eventually that may swamp the distinction between "disinterested" and "uninterested," but that change has not yet taken place. If you are a corporate director who owns no stock or other securities in the corporation on whose board you sit, then you are…