To which I say, fuck those people. If they were  cool with Trump and a Republican senate blowing up the federal budget...the federal budget was clearly not that important to start with.

We all have our breaking point, I guess. Hers just happens to be embarrassingly shallow and trivial.

What better time is there to start squawking about wanting a smaller, more limited government than when there’s a pandemic that requires a coherent, coordinated national response by qualified experts in their respective fields?

Yeah, I could see bringing her into the administration at a cabinet level, leveraging her civil rights and legal background (maybe labor or HUD?). But as a VP pick...it could undermine the “stand back and let the experienced professionals run the show” message that Biden seems to be going for.

While I like Stacey’s educational and professional accomplishments, and I think she’d approach the role with the absolute best of intentions...her lack of practical experience in government beyond the state legislature level is a bit of a hurdle.

Donald Trump makes Joe Biden exciting.

I get it. Biden wasn’t one of my top 10 candidates when the primary started, and I can’t say that I’m really all that thrilled that he’s now the de facto nominee. He’s not going to usher in a world of progressive change. In fairness, he is taking some baby steps with proposals to open up Medicare for more people and…

Woohoo! That graduate-level course in experimental design for social sciences finally paid off!

As far as I can tell, it’s mainly “Trust me, I was Obama’s VP!” and “I’ve been in politics since before most of you were born! Now get the hell off my lawn!”

Rape allegations from 30 years ago, a desire to return to the old status quo (that didn’t work well for a lot of people) and possible cognitive decline. Or seriously unwise political choices at the height of the Cold War, lots of ambiguity on how he’s going to provide everything that’s been promised and material…

That bear is more socially responsible than half my damn neighbors.

I bought into the beard fad a few years back. It was a hot, itchy mess at first. And stopping it from being a hot, itchy mess ended up becoming more effort and expense than just shaving every day. 

I bought into the beard fad a few years back. It was a hot, itchy mess at first. And stopping it from being a hot,…

The term “gaslighting” comes immediately to mind.

Relax, Dan. It’s a pandemic respiratory illness that has a 1% mortality rate, not a zombie apocalypse.

Unless it’s really important to be able to say “I love SW so much that own all 9 movies - even the ones that kind of suck,” I’d pass.

Unless it’s really important to be able to say “I love SW so much that own all 9 movies - even the ones that kind…

It’s the corporate equivalent of living paycheck-to-paycheck, despite driving a Mercedes and living in a McMansion.  

I was almost willing to consider hearing out her re-analysis of the Imperial College’s data for another perspective on this mess...until she started praising Trump’s depth of statistical expertise due to his business experience. That pretty much killed whatever credibility she might have been carrying forward from…

Ashley isn’t saying that Band-Aids are bad...she’s just saying that they’re insufficient for deep arterial wounds.

Honestly, working from home has made my job a lot more tolerable. I don’t have to commute an hour each way to and from work, I can work in my pajamas. My home office is a lot more life-affirming than the beige cube with fluorescent lighting that I’m usually stuck in. No pointless meetings about corporate BS fluff. Whe…

If I could still get hand sanitizer, I would take a bath in it at the thought. As it stands, the best I can do now is splash some cheap vodka on the outside of me in the process of trying to get it in my mouth.