I went and did some reading about the case without realizing I was going to spoil that part of the show.

Somewhat of a tangent, but out of curiosity, I looked up annual US-based CEO pay for 2014. The 100th top CEO makes over $20mil per year, close to what the 4th highest paid actress made. We always think of actors, musicians, and athletes as millionaires, but it's nowhere close to big business. Just a quick look at…

…not to mention the subs are pretty lousy. There are a couple locally-owned shops around that I go to. They are always so so so much better than the chains.

I wish the show had given Sands a bit more of a voice - another minute or two articulating the legal argument for his ruling would give it all some more weight.

The sight of right-wing circular firing squads makes me feel warm inside.

Bernie Sanders did, which I thought was pretty savvy. Maybe other pols have live-tweeted rivals' debates, but that was the first time I'd seen it.

For whiskey-lovers on a budget, the best price-to-taste ratio I've found is George Dickel Tennessee whiskey. Good stuff. Some lovely honey notes. And even cheaper than awful brands like Jim Beam.

Khmer Rouge used violence as policy. Occupy certainly did not.
Blaming "Occupy" for individual actions makes as much sense as:

Shit man, Nixon was to the left of Obama on domestic issues! He wanted a guaranteed minimal income for all citizens and genuinely universal healthcare. That's way more of the socialist wealth redistribution he gets mindlessly accused of than anything Obama has even proposed!

In 1984, Reagan won every state except Minnesota.

Buckley actually makes a jokey callback to the Gore Vidal incident and threatens to smash Chomsky in the goddamned face
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Didn't watch it - what was the bit?

By historical standards, Clinton was a moderate Republican. He was easily to the right of Nixon on domestic issues. Clinton gutted welfare; Nixon wanted guaranteed minimal income for all citizens. The 1996 Telecommunications Act was the biggest-ever giveaway of public property to private for-profit companies.

No - it was bad. And after the bombing, it was worse.

It's basically what Italy had for 8 years.

…something something Lewinsky something….

Peace and Prosperity, unless you lived in one of the places we bombed or invaded under Clinton such as Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Yugoslavia/Bosnia/Serbia/Kosovo, Haiti, Afghanistan or Colombia.

I was just talking with a friend about how some PhD student needs to do a history of official allies & enemies of the US/UK via Bond villains/plots.

Neuroscientist here - can I just drop in on your excellent post to push back against some persistent anti-vaxxer myths?

The thing is, if you look into the primary documents of secession, it's super clear that secession was not at all about states' rights. South Carolina was the first state to secede, and in doing so issued a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal…