Seriously - we have a Great Lake, some mountains over in Colorado, region of the country that will be least impacted by climate change, lots of agricultural diversity, a couple great universities, under Canada’s rule. I’d sign up for that if the dissolution comes.

Does anyone have any insight into why this has even become a thing for Tulsi Gabbard, to the extent that she met with Trump to bring up supporting Assad and met with him on an unsanctioned trip? She’s a congressional representative from Hawaii, it seems so unlikely she has constituents who are personally impacted. Is…

Fully aware, as I demonstrated in my first paragraph. I’m glad we know about the call because it’s dastardly. But if someone who is a friend of yours in the civil service in another country or in peace corps abroad calls you, at a moment when you are not a member of government but a private citizen, should the…

This is where the games of partisanship really bug me. Yes, I agree the number one priority should be investigating what Trump and his various administration staff’s ties to Russia are, to ensure that they can act faithfully and unencumbered in America’s interests. This call was clearly a problem and it needs to be…

Yes, that is a very bad narrative. It is as yet unclear whether that is the narrative of this movie.

She kept her first pregnancy incredibly private and was accused of faking it, and by all accounts it has been very challenging for her to get pregnant and she has lost pregnancies. She is a human person, and allowed to be joyful about a thing and have it deeply impact her personally, and reflect musically and…

The highest rating the Daily Show with Jon Stewart ever had over the course of its entire tenure was 4 million viewers, once when President Barack Obama was interviewed and again for his final episode. (Average was more like 1.5, 1.9). Even if we assume significant amplification of that number due to media summaries…

No one who believes in the Bowling Green massacre watches Jon Stewart or cares about his opinion. I also loved his show but this is a fantasy held by the incredibly small percentage of the population that actually watched his show.

He says above,“we’d never paid for bags because of our status” - that certainly implies to me that they’ve done this before, and multiple ones of them have the free bag status. But facts are low on the ground, to be sure;)

Oh, that makes sense! I was assuming they had each checked in under their own names with “one checked bag” and then left one dude behind to make sure they actually got through the conveyor belt part of the process. But if they ran through and s/he tried to check them all you’re exactly right. More layers of mystery.

I don’t understand why it is assumed that none of the other people checking bags had “free checked bag” status - if its his production people or concert people or whatever it is likely they fly as often as he does. Also, I think the “turn the place around” was because they had left someone behind to check the bags, so…

If it went over most people’s heads, it was by definition not a very effective political statement. I thought it was a perfectly fine musical performance, but do not understand all the people claiming this was some great message piece. There were some coded drops to progressive communities, but the point of…

Yeah the kid is twelve and was probably either confused or embarrassed and she may have been being unclear. I’m sure they had further talk about it that isn’t any of our business, and it is not a big deal.

All of these cuts would be incredibly bad, but they won’t reduce spending hardly at all. Social Security, Medicare, and the Military account for approx. 65% of our 3.8 trillion yearly budget. Without cutting at least one completely or a few by at least half, there is literally no way to reduce the budget by $1…

I read a theory somewhere that when we lived in small nomadic communities we had to pay incredible attention to fertility for survival (can I get pregnant right now because we have no food, are those two having sex because I don’t want to get attacked if I’m having sex with one of them, who is the earliest or most…

My hope/guess will be that it does for her what OJ did for Marcia Clark - turns her from someone used as a punchline to someone given a chance to re-take control of their own narrative and experience publicly, if she wants, or at least be quietly vindicated in her armchair, if she doesn’t.

I think it is easy to see why a story that raises deep questions about what “crime” is and whether any “crime” actually occurred in the most famous story of the decade would be something interesting to explore in a TV show. No one was ever prosecuted for the crime of Hurricane Katrina’s mishandling and it would be…

She’s too old, though. The older I get the more and more disturbed I am by the whole Bill Clinton saga, because I have come to understand much better what it actually means that she was a 22-year-old intern and he was a 49-year-old President and her boss. It feels like a really important, under-acknowledged part of…

Maybe it’s post college re-meet, both their husbands die, and they move back in together and frolic! Seems as reasonable as anything else.

My understanding is: hypnosis to recover long lost memories or change your whole life or make you an assassin etc., fake. But hypnosis as the induction of a trance like state during which someone may be more suggestible (to following direction, or finding cigarettes disgusting, etc.) and doesn’t form memories is real.