The comment was in response to an "inevitability/arrogance" critique of Hillary Clinton that is—I'd argue—both fundamentally misguided about how our (American) form of democracy operates and, frankly, sexist in its undertones.

LaRouche? Is that you?

Tell it to GOP front runner JEB!

Getting the most votes means you deserve it. If she's getting the most votes, that's not inevitability, that's working hard and succeeding.

That's very enlightened of you.

Hillary Clinton is a Yale law graduate who ran two successful campaigns for the U.S. Senate, was Secretary of State, and is winning the majority of delegates by sometimes staggering margins.

The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??!

Hey, when I donate to the ACLU, I expect one thing … ridiculous, high profile lawsuits that bring metaphysical questions to a court unequipped and uninterested in handling it, leading to an immediate dismissal and designed primarily to fill the coffers of televangelists and sell whatever Glen Beck is pitching this…

"Everything Will Be Okay" was easily the weakest short film of the bunch. Really don't get the love it's received, especially when it's alongside the uniformly excellent "Ave Maria."

"Ave Maria" is one of the funniest things I've seen in the past year, and it has more to say about religion and intercultural relations that movies ten times its length.

I only ever dip in and out of this show and I came here to spoil the ending for myself because I'm lazy like that. And for about half of this article, I thought Mulder and Scully were hanging out with Albert Einstein, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"-style, and I was having a great time till the truth dawned on me.

Not enough cooks.

My dream tribute concert goes something like this (edited):

Macklemore's unpopularity is one of those proofs that "widespread hatred by the loud" often won't hurt someone's bottom dollar or mass appeal very much. File it under Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Linkin Park, etc.

There's no shame in saying it. I'd put "Thru These Architect's Eyes" and "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" among his very best.

I was there when they played St. Louis. It was my first and only time seeing Bowie live. I may have seen NIN before, I can't recall now. It's definitely the case that most people were there for the opening act, and truth be told, I only recognized (at most) half of Bowie's stuff.

True Story, re: Wearing The Band T-Shirt To the Band …

At the very least, call out the hack-y children's choir version of a pop song as short hand for *mood*. That's a trope that needs a good long vacation right about now.

"As vast as Springfield is there’s only so many jokes that can be told about these characters, particularly when despite some incremental evolutions here and there, the world isn’t allowed to change all that much."

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm not going to extend this out and I don't mean to challenge anything you've said. I still feel a bit like you're addressing the *premise* of my question more than the question itself, but I take it that—in your opinion—the "shared universe" concept works. And ultimately, I was looking…