The losing candidate is always the best candidate on paper in the primaries. Hillary, Kerry, Gore, McCain, Romney. The winning candidate is the one people (who vote for him or her) can form a positive opinion of in about 5 seconds. Bill Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump (gulp).

Believing that what is simple for you is simple for others is the very definition of white privilege.

This sounds like the letter a celebrity would leave at his muffler shop. “Ya see that, Vin? Coach says we’re the best muffler shop in town! You get it how he says “I like the SOUND of that?” Because mufflers! Ah shit, Vin, you never get anything.”

Proving yet again that the state of Texas is just the fucking worst.

Shit, I’ve been in some jury pools in Portland...not federal grand juries, but still. TERRIFYING. There are some dumb fucking people out there, and it is flat-out scary to think about them being on a jury for something serious. Not everyone, of course, and most of the people on the jury are great, but it only takes…

In reading that story, I was struck by the absurdity of executing someone and then immediately taking them for an autopsy. “Hey, doc! We just killed this guy with a very specific mixture of deadly chemicals, and now we need you to cut open his chest cavity and run a check on all his organs to figure out how he died.”

OMG someone make a reality show of his life.

The weed was fine, it was the meth she did AFTER the weed that caused all the problems.

It’s interesting—if you overlay a map showing rates of passport ownership (in the below map, the darker the shading, the lower the rate of passport ownership) with rates of Trump support, it’s almost an exact match. Meaning, conservatives can talk, but as a group they are the least worldly, least likely to actually go…

LOL @ “500 people in the web thing.”

“16. Alex Spanos”

Seriously though, can you imagine how terrible Trump must be in bed? The gap between how good he thinks he is and how good he actually is must be spectacularly massive.

I was thinking the same thing. A lot more of her friends are going to start no-showing at the ol’ Schilling house.

Well, good on your parents for shutting that shit down. I have no idea why older men feel the need to remark on the future attractiveness of younger girls, it is creepy as fuck. The unspoken thought is: “I know I’m not supposed to want to fuck her now, but believe me, I’ll want to when she’s legal.” The statement is…

Yes, exactly. So, my wife was really, really attractive in high school. (I can say this, because we went to high school together, same grade and everything.) And, my daughter at age 10 looks exactly like my wife did at age 10. So people can say “oh man, you’ll have your hands full when she’s 16" or whatever, and ha…

My basic view is that adults should not go out of their way to sexualize kids, period, male or female. I’m not one of these dads who freaks out at the idea of his daughter (or son) someday having sex. I hope they both have fun and safe sex lives with people who treat them well. But at the same time I want to ensure…

“Schilling starts out by proclaiming that it’s totally normal for adults to remark on the physical appearance of their friends’ kids”

Honestly this story has forever quashed my dream of someday eating at Peter Lugers.

It’s because he spends all his time at home now, watching Fox News, and doesn’t encounter anyone with new ideas. Believe me, there are thousands upon thousands of people with the exact same story as yours. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo ran a series several years ago that was nothing but emails from readers…

Consent is not *given* by a prior relationship, but a prior relationship can absolutely influence how a party to the case interprets consent. That’s totally legitimate. If you have a longstanding understanding with someone that a 1am text means that he or she wants sex, then it’s legitimate to say that you interpreted…