Have you heard about Ted Cruz's college roommate posting shit about him on facebook? I think that's probably the Stan/Kyle in his life :)

Yeah… I'm honestly not sure why people think that is a bad thing. They clearly haven't thought too hard about The Problem of Evil.

Yeah, and it's easy for me as a straight white guy to think that too… I'm not in the same boat as my lesbian friends who could have a child but the spouse of the birth mother couldn't legally adopt her own son, or my other friends that had to pay thousands of dollars for legal documents worth less than the $75…

Perhaps it's better said that Cruz doesn't believe in government then. It doesn't seem like accepts the premises of what it's for.

Cruz wants a Christian theocratic government… no taxes, no science, no abortion, a government that is unabashedly for an Evangelical God. Trump wants…. something? Right now, I'm at least hopefully that Generals, Congress and SCOTUS would be unafraid to oppose an insane President Trump. Cruz? Well, there are a lot…

Yeah, I kind of wish Dynasty had a bit more on the 'how do we know what we know' aspect of things, but it does jive quite well with what I remember from my Roman history in college, but just a bit emphasis on the blood.

Weird. Well, certainly straight people don't have the monopoly on being uninformed…. there seem to be a bunch of people that still haven't quite forgiven Obama for not being all in for gay marriage in 2008, even though it seems clear as crystal to me that he was just trying to be shrewd about it.

Oh, I definitely think he would be super terrible as a president… I just think Cruz would probably be even more insidious and dangerous, because while Trump has a huge group of horrifying supporters, they are largely disorganized right now. Cruz seems like the kind of guy that took over the government in the…

Cartman that made some really poor life choices?

It's also possible that Gandalf knew he fucked a pig.

Ted Cruz is basically Cartman from South Park.

I wondered if it wasn't part of the deal he made to get the Lib Dems on board with him, but it's also possible that he just thought it was the right thing to do… perhaps Elton John and Gandalf had tea with him at some point and explained why it was important. Or invited him to Elton John's wedding.

Zim "I put the fires out!"
Tallest "You made them worse!"
Zim "Worse…. or better?"

The Welcome to Nightvale people have a new podcast, narrated by Astrid from Fringe called Alice is Not Dead. Spooky.

I tried to give it a fair shake, but when I got into season 2 I couldn't handle the 'and then everyone is an asshole to everyone' episodes that kept cropping up.

I never cease to be amazed that in spite of all the horrible shit they pull, the Tories still managed to legislate gay marriage before our courts could.

Reading Dynasty by Tom Holland, about the Julio-Claudian Dynasty of Roman Emperors. Just cracked the Caligula period… I don't think I really quite understood what a bastard Tiberius was in my Roman history course, but he really illustrates the problem with monarchy: The monarch has a really hard time allowing anyone…

Are You Afraid of the Dark was a big one for me…. I think it was a great intro to horror.

And also, if there is a heaven or hell, it seems like your behaviors must necessarily be altered and limited to keep you from fucking up and getting booted out.

It's a classic white guy move… they know they're the ones that are going to get their interests served no matter who gets into power.