It sure beat the hell out of watching hours and hours of YouTubers unboxing and playing with toys.

Wouldn’t that be some shit, if Pelosi could talk Trump into backing a Medicare-for-all plan under the Trumpcare name and put McConnell on his heels to fight against a “bipartisan” universal healthcare plan?

I’d much rather see him nominate Bill Murray, instead. 

Clarissa Mao’s transition from the novels to the show is one piece of revisionism that just didn’t work well.  Without her internal dialogue and some of the backstory in the novel (that wouldn’t have translated well to the screen) she just seemed incomplete.

Ashen was kind of like that. Hadn’t heard of it before it ended up on GamePass, but it’s eaten several of the past evenings’ gaming sessions. The last “souls” game I had actually enjoyed was Demon’s Souls, but the art and the sudden shifts from soothing to terrifying make it pretty engrossing. 

GamePass + XBL is the XBox One’s biggest strength at this point. For the price of buying about 3 AAA games, you get a year’s worth of having more games at your disposal than you could reasonably play (and still lead a somewhat productive life). And while some of them are classic XB360 games and obscure indie games,…

I’m all for that on the principle alone, but (AOC not withstanding, once she takes office) most members of Congress are well-off enough that a couple months without their government paycheck would only be a minor inconvenience.

Bah. At this point, the Democrats have to come to accept that the only way they’re going to exercise any power for the next two years is if they make it clear that they are completely willing to go nuclear to get the job done. As long as the Republicans know they’re too afraid to shut down the government over their…

Counterpoint- shutting down the federal government in earnest for a few weeks would remind the “drain the swamp, we don’t need those Washington elites!” types that, yes, they actually do need a federal government that functions smoothly and in the interest of the people it’s intended to serve. Red states want small…

I would say that Ryan and Graham have actually grown into pretty well-developed characters, and their dynamic adds to the story. It speaks to the challenge of blended families, especially when the relationship that binds those families together comes to an end (in this case, via Grace’s death).  But yeah...Yaz has…

The only way he could reasonably reduce the length of the season any further is if he pulled a Sherlock and made each episode two full hours long. I’m not sure that’s any less time filming, though - just an opportunity for more in-depth stories with having to split them into two parters.

Have you ever considered switching to decaf?  Your cardiovascular system will thank you. 

If they give us a new single player story-driven, open-world RPG...I’m in. After ME:Andromeda, I won’t be in on launch day (ever again!), but I’ll definitely pick it up after it’s fully patched.

I’m conflicted. On one hand, the federal government was more or less functioning as normal during the 8 years that W was in office. The man was a dunce, but not totally devoid of charisma. That sounds kind of appealing in light of the raging dumpster fire we’ve had in Washington the past two years.

1) This was a pretty mind-blowing episode. Who knew that Darcy Carden was that talented an actress?

Can’t Evers just fire most of these appointees, though? Obviously, not any of the judicial ones, so that sucks. But the assorted department executives and commission seats should be easy enough to fix once he takes office.  

You’re right in that there’s no getting anything done in the next 2-4 years without giving the Republicans some of what they want. But the flip side is also true - without control of the House, the conservative legislative agenda is dead in the water, and the Democrats can effectively veto any major budgetary changes…

Teladoc is beyond useless. It’s basically $40 to complain about whatever ails you for three minutes to some dude with an Indian accent, who will then suggest that you take some ibuprofen, get a good night’s sleep and make an appointment with your GP if you don’t feel better by morning.

Amen. I’ve attempted to shop around for services ever since my employer switched us to “employee-directed high-deductible” plans (aka benefit cost-cutting measures they could blame on the ACA instead of the CEO wanting a third vacation home) about 5 years ago. And it turns out that it’s completely impossible to do…

Here’s the deal: no human being can defeat the laws of statistics indefinitely. You can be clever for a while, and maybe lucky for a while after that. But as the sample size grows, the trend inevitably regresses toward the mean.