It seems obvious to me that when you get to presidential election levels, you basically have two people representing all of the possible interests of all of the hundreds of millions of people in the country. The likelihood that either of those people's values and/or past votes will align 100% with yours are very very…

Get a load of the Trump Whisperer over here, folks.

The population is absolutely shrinking in Japan, which has lost a million people since 2010 (https://www.washingtonpost…. ), and they are absolutely trying to get away with their current immigration policy (= no immigration please, thanks) and it is not working out great. They're at the point where they're basically…

Wasn't Wilson basically in a coma* at one point?

Sadly, I think the reason why they capped it at two in the first place was so that that sort of thing wouldn't happen again like it basically did with FDR.

Well, Obama also won the popular vote twice. This guy lost by millions of people, and then tried to push through an extremist agenda anyway. At least Bush tried to play it to the middle a little bit when he lost the popular vote (with all bets off after 9/11).

If they want to simultaneously add a touch of gender equality while giving themselves an awesomeness level-up, they could change it to Coast Guardian. In which case they should also get magical sigal rings and capes. I imagine that there will be much dramatic posing on windswept cliffs by the sea.

Well, there's still this, helpfully keeping record: https://whatthefuckjusthapp…

Well, on Deep Space Nine violation of said law resulted in a couple years in luxury space-jail for 1/2 of the parents and no reprecussions whatsoever for the genetically-engineered person. So those stringent punishments should do the trick.

Hoo boy, how to respond to that in less than a book. I'll give it a try:

Me: *slaves away actually meaningful linguistics research project*

When it comes time for me to vote for Gillibrand again in 2018, it will be difficult for me to stop myself from drawing little hearts around her name on the ballot.

There's also this interesting little tidbit, suggesting that Trump's steady approval rating among Republicans may be somewhat of an illusion, since the number of people identifying as Republicans has dropped since Trump (see Morning Joe, etc.). So the rate of approval has stayed steady, but the raw number of…

::nerds in:: Ahem, as per Federation law, you may use genetic engineering to eliminate diseases/disorders but not increase intelligence. We already have perfectly good guidelines for this stuff, folks. ::nerds out::

NYS too. Plus the only reason we didn't pass single-payer is because there are about a half-dozen or so Republican sleeper agents in the state senate who say that they're Democrats but let the Republicans have majority power in the senate, even though there are more Democrats.

All right, I know that I'm always here late (stupid EST) and I probably missed all the relevant folks already, but as a liberal coastal elite, this is literally the only place where I know anyone from the Midwest and right now America and The World are counting on the Midwest to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. So in…

It's almost as if it would life a burden off of the business community if they didn't have to pay for their employees' health care because instead there was some sort of central, tax-based, government-regulated health insurance system. Like, instead of having *multiple* companies paying money for their employees'…

It's neat that that article focuses on what would happen to U.S. military bases were North Korea to bomb Tokyo, Seoul, Okinawa, etc. Super neat. The millions of Japanese and Korean people living in those cities, not as important of course. Just a little shade on the "population density" map. Population of what, you…

There is a reason they're aiming the current round of missles at Japan. They'll hit Japan or South Korea before they ever hit the US. That's what I'm worried about, because I don't want them to bomb either of those places (or anywhere). But people in the US wringing their hands about a North Korean missle feels a…

I'm sorry the organization let you down. I knew a lot of Eagle scouts back in high school and I know it takes a lot of work.