That girl looks like Macauley Culkin. I don't mean that as an insult or a compliment, I'm just struck by the resemblance.

True, that's a dance we go through, but it doesn't change my analysis of the situation.

That's a nice theory, but it's not really true in practice. In the first place, there are always the people who didn't vote for the officials in office, and Springsteen concert-goers and PayPal users probably make up a somewhat disproportionate number of those. Moreover, a representative democracy makes the officials…

It's a rough situation. On the one hand, like international sanctions, brands suspending or limiting operations in these states hurts citizens who aren't responsible for the actions of their governments. On the other hand, it really does get the attention of governments and can cause them to alter their positions. I…

"Obviously we're going to have Netflix forever."

We are Ubermensch!

My favorite songs of his were written by other songwriters, but Haggard delivered them with just the right yowling, growling plaintiveness.

I like Weldon (who is gay, which I think is relevant here), but yeah, I agree with you, I think those lines are intentionally suggestive of a homosexual relationship.

No, no, repeat after me. Would that 'twere so simple.

Pacho Villa?

Also General Gogol.

(spoiler) Bill Haydon

I agree, I think this was a weak piece. Oliver's piece on the border wall, though, is really on-point.

Sad!

This is Zack Handlen, fella! Look it up!

Footage from WW2 was pretty sanitized, and if memory serves only one wartime documentary actually showed American bodies ("With the Marines at Tarawa"). I love the WW2 newsreels and docs, but the TV footage from Vietnam was famously impactful.

"The communist governments we saw from Italy to Vietnam post-WWII were local, grassroots campaigns to overthrow colonial regimes." American leaders generally didn't understand that, though. (And it's not entirely accurate to deny any ideological component to those governments, though it's certainly valid to dismiss…

Another thing I associate with old white southerners. (See above for another one.) What a weird similarity.

I'd say that's normal, albeit old-fashioned, English. Here in Texas I associate it with old white people. Is it really still current in Philly?

That's the D&D I'd really like to play. I've tried before a couple of times and intend to keep trying, but the stats and combat and equipment and leveling aspects keep driving me away.