I'm a liberal Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the California primary. As long we're being pedantic and condescending, assumptions and generalizations are frowned upon for a reason.

Whitewater convictions:

Click on the links. The examples in the thought experiment actually happened. That's the whole point. So, yes, they were facts.

"You can assert she's a liar all you want, but the facts do not support you." If you honestly believe this, I would cross-reference her current spin of the FBI's decision to not indict her with the content of FBI Director Comey's press conference and testimony before Congress, Google Youtube clips of her claims to be…

Your political enemies seeking to capitalize on something doesn't automatically make it a "witch hunt." That's the Clinton Machine spin, e.g. "We're not sleazy political opportunists who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars despite working in 'public service' our entire lives and running a 'charitable…

Institutionalism is a strong force.

Given Meghan McCain is a highly paid political pundit who routinely displays shocking ignorance of the basics of politics and says things like "well, that was before my time" when she gets called out for this in interviews, this might not be too far from the truth.

This assumes the USG's interpretation of some of our most draconian laws is consistent, sane, and fair. If you have billions of dollars and/or direct access to political power, this is usually the case. If not, you're usually screwed.

The only thing that would get me to watch something with Parker in it would be HBO taking the pilot David Milch wrote that had her and Hellen Mirren in London as competing madames of whorehouses in the present-day and now post-Brexit.

Wait, I swear I read somewhere he has a whole group of successors hand-picked to continue the series as a contingency plan and/or if he wants to move on from the world once the ASOIAF series is done but his publisher wants to continue.

NBC bought Universal basically with the profits from the Law & Order franchise alone. And Wolf already has a whole other network franchise going. Trump doesn't have that kind of money.

1) Clinton grudgingly "supported" the $12 increase of the national minimum wage because it polled well and her comments in debates and interviews strongly suggest she views it—like choice—as a "negotiable" position and that a slow bump up to $12 was "sufficient." We'll see if her current position of "supporting" the…

Tragedy is pretty much guaranteed on Election Day. No matter who wins, you're getting one of the two most unpopular candidates in American history and that person will believe the following:

I really like the White Bear episode—it's definitely among the stronger episodes—but in terms of elegance of writing and pure existential dread and epistemological terror, that Christmas special is unparalleled. Absolutely everything in that episode pays off in horrifying ways that seem inevitable but never contrived.

Now, those types of people are just completely divorced from reality. While I think it's pretty clear that the government's claims of pot being a gateway drug or addictive are bullshit, I would be very interested in seeing a study regarding the long-term psychological effects. The reason for that being that the…

Bonus points if she shows back up with a kid named Astrolabe.

It's not bad, it's just largely mired in marijuana cartel subplot the creative team completely jettisons in the opening of season 3. The show is great and is similar in development to Breaking Bad, which also didn't really become the show everybody talks about now until season 3.

He, deservedly, gets a lot of shit for making a ton of weak and cheap movies that are basically money-laundering schemes for their financiers but I don't think he's as incompetent as people say. Event Horizon kind of points in the direction of being a director who could have gone in a more respectable direction and…

Bad driving is an Asian stereotype? I thought it was an anti-woman stereotype—or is this a fusion case where the hidden premise is that Asian men aren't masculine?

I disagree that the Starks are dumb and don't think that's the point the books or the show are trying to make. (Their actions make sense if common sense or old-fashioned morality is your priority.) Rather, I think they are both making the cynical point that there exists a reason why the good die young—predatory people…