Eh, I think it impacted me more because as I was listening they're making clear and slowed annunciation for the camera which makes it feel substantially longer. Saying it out loud, DS9 feels marginally faster but I guess it really isn't in practical everyday use? But we do have some evidence that acronyms can become…

Wow, John C. Worsley, you win the internet of tonight!

A.) Fake News is playing on the law of inevitability where you just throw enough news out there and inevitably somebody is going to bite on it….

It just makes me want to go back and watch all of it again and perhaps trek through some Next Gen for good measure….I was just talking with my father about the data crystal and Sisko's commitment to the cause as an interesting narrative to the 'ends justify the means' and how the show dealt with it in an intriguing…

Lets your eggs sit out or soak them in warm (not hot, you don't want soft-boiled) water for a few minutes. Then whisk them like there is no tomorrow and you want good eggs before you die. Usually, this means beating them until they bubble.

Exactly! *high-fives*

The short answer is organizing the locals into clearing the hurdles because all it does it throw up hurdles to voting all together. Also, in many of the more important locales if the Democrats won the judge of election/registrar positions it would undo much of the damage.

The point is that the Komen effect isn't actually giving more mammograms, it's just saying you should get one. There is research out there now that suggests clearly that Komen and the like should stop selling pink for awareness and start giving money to mammogram trucks and provide funding for free testing.

Generally that does mean so. Confusing critical acclaim with box office take is how we get 4 transformer sequels and yet 'nobody seems to like them.'. Suicide Squad wasn't an insane hit but it was a solid return. It didn't do much for the DC-verse which is probably the bigger issue.

But because the government really has no legal power to intervene because it's all technically above board in terms of the broad legalities they operate under (all the physical violence is uncorroborated or done out in international waters) the government largely has no path to redress.

To be fair, Jackson wasn't even a bigot in his time, he was just another settler going west with no regard for the natives already there. I see the populist bigotry more along the lines of Strom Thurmond's failed dixiecrats. Atleast at that point they were solidly out of step with the general consensus going forward.

I agree but if the 17 legally defined members (plus the president) all die before replacement there would be no technical legal president under the current succession orders, so if we have an abnormal series of accidents, hello President McMahon…..after a huge constitutional debate and probably the ascension of a…

thank you for your input? Lets agree to disagree.

Heh, I had a chuckle. I really haven't written much on Harding but I enjoyed a recent history book on him a few years ago and then did further research as a side project. He's a fascinating character because he's probably the perfect archetype of the 'con man president' which isn't all that uncommon. Bush II would…

The makeup, the hair, he designed it himself but it wasn't the joker I knew or liked growing up. I get that it was in the vain of keeping it 'real' but it felt oddly off in so many ways.

1.) Stop pretending that fru-fru social positions are going to work everywhere. It breaks my heart but you can't make trans rights a front-and-center piece of the legislative agenda if you want to win state rep seats. I hate it. I hate saying it but it's true. You want the seats of flyover country you got to be OF…

No, we're robust…..just incredibly stupid.

So it's become clear that Trump is going to do a Grant/Jackson/Harding administration style, picking friends and vague allies who have no idea what their job is but know who's the boss. Atleast in the case of Grant and Jackson they were honestly trying to do right for the most part (Grant's few bad apples spoiled the…

It's a 'cabinet-level position' so yes, they are being accurate even if they don't control a vast bureaucracy. It's a secondary cabinet position no doubt, but still a cabinet position.

This is performance art, right? Where you play the socially defeated white male who succeeds in the short-term of dominating a political party on the wane seeking to bring ruin to the average American only to find victory is short and bitter like the loss of medicare and a massively ballooning debt….