Easily. Putin wants to reassemble the USSR - he's concerned with the US mostly insofar as it prevents that goal. Replace him with someone whose primary aim is to see the US suffer, and it gets worse.

I just don't know how much different that person would be. If at all.

I keep reading that Putin is in trouble at home, but I have no idea what him losing power would look like besides chaos.

Man, Putin's "Party Like it's 1969" life ambitions are succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.

Appropriate, for the biggest single reactionary party in American history.

But they only get to do that if they have the proper background…in neurosurgery.

Dammit, that song's stuck in my head now.

"Yeah…but you still got a shirt."

I both think it's understandable and petty. On the one hand, duh, dramatization. On the other, if this movie's a hit people are going to be asking her about "what was it like to have 2Pac read you that poem" for the rest of her life - I can understand wanting to get out ahead of that.

I loved that scene. Because underneath all the scatological humor, the main character wanted to die because it was all her fault.

It's not. The tapeworm's not taking that food and porting it into an alternate dimension, it's taking that food and hanging out in your gut. And if you'd rather excrete a tapeworm than jog, congrats, you're the one person who hates exercise more than me.

…how long has it been since Magic went public with his diagnosis?

Remembering that squirrels are nature's a**holes, I imagine that little guy thinking "That's right, I just grabbed your taquito and I'm looking you in the eye while I eat it. Whatcha gonna do about it, *primate*?"

Well yeah, just that you can split some hairs awful fine. I would also like to point out that I made that comment (seconds) before BlackMamba dropped his real-life bomb upthread.

This mean you're not going to personally locate the In-n-Out closest to Val and dig up it's health violations? Because your place in the Petty Hall of Fame awaits.

The First Church of Salmonella, Rev. Charles Johnson presiding.

Technically, neither did AIDS…

More amusing to me is the number of prominent law firms that pointedly *refused* to defend Trump.

Agreed. It's just not the same level of shocking as the filing cabinet smoker.

Man was an actor before he was a cook. He worked *real* hard to get any trace of Georgia out of his delivery before he got that show.