It really makes you appreciate the situation we’re in when you’re actually hoping for Mitt Romney.

He’s under no illusions about the sensibility of everyone else, but he’s smart enough to know that the instant he drops the civility and lowers himself even slightly towards the level of inane contempt that is constantly aimed at him, he loses the high ground and all the tropes and racism will turn against him.…

It kind of makes me feel like our parents are getting divorced, Obama’s our real dad, and we have to go live with our drunk, grabby, step-dad. Real dad is trying to make us feel better about it, but we know step-dad is going to get trashed and hit on our under-age best friend. And by that, I mean round up muslims and…

In my head, Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump said “Wrong!” as soon as I read the headline.

I believe someone on Tumblr described the first Obama-Trump meeting as something like “The first day of law school, and homeboy didn’t do the readings.”

Agreed. He looks like the type of guy who you know is terrible news but he’s so good in bed that you repeatedly have amazing sex that you immediately regret. I find scumbags kinda sexy (always more so in theory), and I think that applies to Scott at least by his public persona. Plus he just had an objectively…

REALLY??

Some friends of mine have done the same thing and it has basically torn their family apart. I don’t know your situation but if, like my friends, your goal is to keep hateful mother fuckers away from young and impressionable children then stay strong. No kindergartener needs to hear racial slurs and violent language…

He can’t keep preexisting conditions and get rid of everything else. The compromise for keeping the protection for preexisting conditions was that *everyone has to have insurance* in order to contribute to paying the cost accrued from the chronically ill. If he gets rid of everything else, he will not be able to get…

Ask politely, but firmly.

Yes, this was a piece on This American Life. IIRC, she actually (after much hounding) recanted and confessed to lying. But she had been telling the truth. So sad. https://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/581/anatomy-of-doubt

I disagree with the linking suggestion. That only increases the likelihood of a nasty troll getting ungreyed. We should ignore them completely IMO.

Same.

That’s why I hate the vets culture in the US. It just feeds the ridiculous jingoism and silence voices questioning the army’s role in foreign policy and industrial affairs. You wouldn’t have to have so many vets event if the US weren’t always at war.

Drone warfare and (ha) “precision strikes” are utterly indefensible crimes against humanity, but there’s no need to equivocate. That’s the sort of smug ideological purity that kept a large portion of the American populace on their damned couches last Tuesday. There’s a marked difference between starting a war and…

Who’s blaming Pop for anything? I never blamed him for a single thing. “Privilege” is not a bad word, and it doesn’t imply blame.

So, this is a really interesting topic of discussion! And you’re going to get a way longer response than you want, which you probably won’t bother to read, but here I go ...

NO that trial should not be delayed. He’s already delayed it for how long. Fuck this. And how did this thread get taken over by the safety pin controversy? You told this clueless person what was up, and thank you. But I really didn’t to see 50 posts about it. Focus, people. This article is about whether the president…

Lately I’ve been gassy in the evenings. Like clockwork. What’s that say about my digestion?

Anybody else been gassy? I was so gassy at work yesterday that when some guy was being a colossal douche I would pass by him and quietly cropdust him. Seriously I did it at least four times over the course of a day.