They are the worst and hopefully they'll all get voted out now that people are paying attention to local politics. There are a whole bunch of post-Trump angry Indivisible types in the NYC area who don't have any Republican reps to yell at. At they just found the IDC. Whoops!

IDC is the "Independent Democratic Conference." If you're wondering what an "independent Democrat" is, the answer is "secret Republican." Basically a bunch of state senators elected as Dems, but decided to give majority power to the Republicans even though there are technically more Dem state senators. Because the IDC…

My favorite:

Man, they are really having trouble figuring out that "boycotts" are the one place where the popular vote actually counts.

Honestly, I think the saner states/cities should just start to act as independently from the federal government as possible. There's what, just one deep red state (Texas) that has any hefty economy on its own? Maybe a couple of purples (PA, FL, AZ). We should just really start moving ahead without the rest of the…

You know, I do like Trudeau, and I don't mean for this to sound too snarky, but it sure would be nice if he could stop a tar sands pipeline or two.

Both of these involve defending the environment using a legal strategy, which, as NRDC points out, is helpful because the current president is based on lying and you can't lie in court.

Here's some things to donate to, if that helps:
https://www.ourchildrenstru…
https://www.nrdc.org

I was holding onto a sliver of hope, so that maybe today I could leave work a little early, stop at the bookstore on the way home, then go spend quality time with my children.

I said this this morning in Politics Corner already, but if I were Europe and China, I would put big ol' sanctions on the U.S. right now (maybe minus CA and NY and other places that have agreed to uphold Paris). We deserve it.

Honestly, if the US pulls out of Paris, the other countries of the world should straight-up sanction us. If they agree to trade only with states that have agreed to hold up Paris, they'll still be able to trade with California, New York, etc., so they wouldn't even have to put their own trade at risk that much to do…

Also, politicians/corporations haven't embraced flat-earthism as an instrument in advancing their own personal greed. That's the big issue: it's not whether people of low-intellect/high-crazy exist, it's whether people with power are exploiting their beliefs. And right now the whole Republican party is exploiting…

I think "Far Beyond The Stars" is the only Star Trek episode that ever made me actually cry. Like, not just get a little sniffle, but legit tears.

This comment is unironic, right? Because I really do love that episode.

True, and presumably members of cloistered orders specifically chose a cloistered order on purpose already though. Like, they already knew about "being out in the community" and picked "solitude within walls" instead.

Article on Catholicism and pop culture? Cue the misuse of the term "immaculate conception" in 3, 2, 1… "…which Agnes claims was the result of immaculate conception…" Boom.

Yeah, plenty of nuns are funny. They're not another species; they're just humans who picked a job.

I think I've decided that a good strategy to deal with the pro-life crowd is to double-down on the "Republicans = pro-birth, not pro-life" rhetoric. Let's face it, the current strategy of just yelling "choice!" over and over again at these people is not going to work. They've already heard of choice, and have decided…

Well, there's this guy: https://theintercept.com/20….

Well, if the human ear can't tell the difference, then the two are effectively homophones, and then the question is how to choose the best orthographic encoding for what he's saying. Like choosing "they're" vs. "there" vs. "their." The weird twist here is that it's hard to differentiate the meaning from context…