Her commentary reminded me vaguely (though not nearly as bad) of that video where the son and daughter of a family get stuck in a hotel elevator and the rest of the family berates the hotel security for not intervening. No one knows better than the guy filming it what to do in an emergency*, I guess.

*Neil Postman? . . . got very confused about why Richard Posner would be writing on this topic :-)

If you want proof, I’d recommend Listen Up Philip, which is pretty great.

I mean, the district’s been Republican for, like, 40 years so this shouldn’t really be a surprise except that Osoff unexpectedly had a chance so everyone got their hopes up. It’s disappointing, but on balance it’s not a great indicator for 2018. Even if Osoff had won by a narrow margin it wouldn’t indicate much…

I have to assume that the weirdest part of all of this for Jim Comey is that a bunch of random people on the internet started debating whether or not they’d fuck him. I decided Comey was kind of hot after his memo was “leaked” so this debate is complete vindication for me.

Right — which is why Trump had so much trouble finding an attorney over the past few weeks — because he’s totally unmanageable. Though it looks to me like the strategy going into this was, well, we haven’t been officially notified of an investigation, so let’s say the tweet was based on the WaPo article and that as…

I mean, you’re right, but I don’t think it’s because Sekulow is untalented so much as because Trump is such an impossible client (which is why so many law firms declined to represent him). I mean, I’m surprised more people don’t slip up when they have all these shows to do. Add to that the fact that your client…

Jay Sekulow has successfully argued a slew of Establishment Clause cases in front of the supreme court, so it’s not like he’s bad at his job, but I’m not sure how that experience is going to translate to representing the president in an obstruction case. Still, seems like a step up from Kasowitz (though that’s not…

I also like Ben Sasse. He’s a principled conservative, not just another fuck-the-left troll, which is the sentiment that took over the Republican Party and gave us Trump. He’s also an extremely intelligent person trying to survive in an political party that’s hostile to anything it perceives as “elite.” In a less…

“You reap what you sow” goes both ways. Political opponents will see this comment section and go, “ah yes, this is how I figured ‘they’d’ react” and then when one of “ours” is attacked, will mirror our lack of humanity. And we’ll forget what we said today and be upset by their lack of humanity. What happened to, “when…

Looks like the karma comment was removed or deleted, thank god, because what a fucking gross way to respond to several people being shot (fortunately, it sounds like all the injuries are non-life threatening).

Thank you for bringing some reason and decency to this.

During the Comey hearing I realized a third possibility that’s kind of a sub-possibility of your number 2: Trump thinks the Russia investigation is about the dossier itself (which might all or mostly be bullshit), and doesn’t fully understand the wider investigation into Russian interference into the election (which…

When I first heard Jeff Sessions full name I thought the “erson Beauregard” part was a joke.

I’m trying to figure this out too. If Sessions isn’t going to dispute Comey’s testimony, I don’t see what he gains, and if he does dispute his testimony, I’m not sure the Sessions version will hold up under scrutiny, especially since Trump doesn’t seem to have the capacity to stay on message for the purposes of a…

Racism is the default position of the country. Maher is very politically progressive on some topics, including race, so he is not “racist” in the sense that David Duke is “racist,” but he is racist in the sense that he clearly doesn’t understand why his intent doesn’t do a whole lot to mitigate the pain black people…

Angus King is on team “would.”

am i doing this right?

If you asked me my preference when I was single I’d say tall, but ended up marrying a guy who is about 5'8" and wouldn’t have it any other way. All the women I know have preferences, but I don’t know any women with such a strong aesthetic preference that something like height would be a deal-breaker.

I like Sasse. I mean, I am liberal, so obviously I disagree with many of his positions, but he is actually a conservative . . . with principles . . . that he will have a reasonable discussion about. The problem is the Republican party has been coopted by (1) a bunch of nihilist trolls who want to win just too piss of…