It was his Viet Nam.

Really, I think that Trump is in the throes of senile dementia, but that it has also served him well in connecting with his base. He communicates emotionally and emphatically, but without intellectual substance. As long as he mirrors the feelings his base feel, they can project whatever hopes they have onto him…

He must have picked up at least some Russian by now.

I think Jill Stein voters and people like them—many of whom stayed home because they correctly identified doing so as equivalent to a Jill Stein vote but incorrectly believed the Green Party figleaf that the major parties are functionally equivalent—cost Hillary the election. I think that because she lost on razor…

I mean, there was this, right: http://nymag.com/daily/inte…

You voted for Jill Stein and got Donald Trump. I'm not sure there's a "sales pitch" that is going to work on you.

When you collude with someone to commit a felony, you have conspired. Conspiracy to commit a crime is, itself, usually a crime. If Trump or the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election by hacking the DNC—which I'm fairly sure constitutes a number of federal felonies—then it is extremely…

If that's what it takes, I'll cowboy up and really just leave all my privilege unchecked. It'll be whatever the equivalent of "glorious" is that is used to describe landfill fires. Holler at your boy AVClub.

You're right, I remembered it wrong. The speech was made during curtain call, and the speaker did say "I see you walking out," but it appears that Pence listened to what was said.

My favorite part is that the one noteworthy thing Mike Pence has done that is not part of being a sockpuppet for L. Don Tubbard was, wait for it, walking out when the cast of Hamilton stopped the show to plea with him to be a decent human being. How dare he stifle their right to speech with his own right to assembly?

I don't know, I'm 34 so maybe I'm just middle-aged and out of touch, but when I hear "middle-aged" I think mid forties at the youngest. You're not old until your 60s at least, and even relatively fit 60-year-olds don't seem particularly "old" to me. Otherwise the progression is childhood (0-17) -> college aged…

30s is now middle-aged? Jay-Z, first you lied to Bey, now to your fans? Not cool, Hova, not cool.

I also thought that the scenes where she was involuntarily battering Dong Nguyen in Season 2 pretty much put the question of "what kind of weird sex stuff" to bed. http://www.avclub.com/tvclu…

Yeah, you're on-board with everything 100% or you're a white supremacist who is probably happy Trump is president. There is no irony in this, nor does this pervasive, appalling manicheanism have any causal relationship to Trump having become president.

I'm finding it increasingly ironic that a man who doesn't believe in vaccines (among other basic scientific concepts) is turning out to be a kind of human political vaccine against fascism.

Oh god is this another Pokemon thing?

I still think Training Day, End of Watch and Fury are good movies. Fite me irl haters.

Is the "super" in "super-hunks" intended to refer to their advanced age?

My current top 10. If I'm honest, I could change my mind about everything except that All Hail West Texas is the best fucking album ever.

The only rationalizations I can understand for well done steak are (1) excessive fear of germs induced by decades of overly cautious food handling instructions, (2) a lifetime of eating cheap, bad meat, which is actually improved by thorough cooking and the slathering with a sauce to cover up the flavor and (3)…