Amen. Election the movie does a couple of laps around Election the book. In fact, I think Payne understood the book better than Perrotta did.

No. Leonard’s prose, and particularly his dialogue, is masterful. Google “Elmore Leonard” and you’ll find everybody from the New Yorker to the Atlantic to Stephen King to the New York Review of Books saying that there’s no better American crime writer, with the possible exception of Raymond Chandler.

“Trade Mo Speights, Austin Rivers, Wesley Johnson for Paul George”

Bahahahaha.

Gilbert Arenas.

Also the battle hasn’t actually happened yet.

If you’d read the article you’d have noted that it spends quite a few words on the distinction between ‘people’ and ‘person,’ and that Wise is NOT actually arguing that chimps are ‘people,’ and therefore you might notice that your position and Wise’s aren’t as far apart as you’re implying.

In some of the other comments…

I’m not going to bag on Ellison for being a bad person, because I don’t think he is and it’s silly when rivals do that.

But: It is a fact that before, say, Christmas, Perez was widely considered the most progressive person in the Obama administration, and that Hillary did not chose him for VP because she thought he was…

And hydrogen!

“The medieval world, while unfairly maligned as the “Dark Ages,” produced nothing of comparable sophistication or grandeur”

Do you want to win just to win? Or do you want to win because you think your values are better?

The guy who did it lost reelection.

Yes! If only the Democrats had known that to beat Trump they needed to yell at his daughter in public more.