Well, he's actually 824 years old (though biologically he's closer to 720 because of the relativistic time dilation of traveling here from his home planet).

The idea that the range of political discourse considered publicly acceptable will shift with the introduction of extreme fringe ideas. For example, the entire cottage industry that has grown out of trying to prove that people who support Donald Trump really "aren't so bad". Before this type of discourse became…

And, you know, y'all don't have Donald Trump, so you still ahead :)

"Paul Ryan . . . preventable tragedy"

Yeah, the sum total of my spine operation and associated care totaled close to a million dollars. And that's not even counting the money I lost by not being able to work or go to school for the past two years. I'm all for personal responsibility, but I'd really like the Republicans to explain how it makes me…

He didn't word it quite as well as her, though. He said (paraphrasing), "the government builds roads, infrastructure, military, schools, etc. that help businesses, and if you have a business, you didn't build that". Which was a stupid way to organize the sentence because obviously conservatives only shared 'if you…

I mean, in all fairness, the United States does an excellent job with medical research and providing specialized care. One legitimate concern going into health care reform is how we could preserve those positive attributes while broadening the insured base. But that has to involve putting constructive suggestions on…

Describing the concept of overt racism being bad as "something that a lot of uber liberals in the social justice branch have
ordained others should have at the front of their minds in a
condescending manner" is pretty much exactly what people are talking about when they say the Overton window is being shifted.

Though as a minority with lots of family in Canada, there are certainly problems there as well. I think the biggest factor with race relations in Canada is that minorities make up so much less of the population, so white Canadians feel much less threatened. Also, you guys don't have as large of a rural population…

That's . . . basically exactly what that means. The significance is that some people have prominently claimed that economic anxiety drove voting patterns, whereas the larger body of social research indicates that cultural concerns were a larger factor (and that economically motivated voters actually leaned Democrat).…

If you combined Lyndon B. Johnson with Jimmy Carter, you would either get the greatest or the most terrible President in history.

So, basically what every social scientist who has done a statistic analysis of this election has already found (but got completely ignored because we don't publish in a facebook post with NEOLIBERALISM in all caps).

He thinks that the ovens should use natural gas instead of "clean coal" (it's more economical).

There's a LOT to be said for girth.

This video gave me CancerAIDS.

That wasn't even structured programming.

You used a GOTO statement? Dude, I program in fucking FORTRAN, and even I know better than to use GOTO. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to rewrite your code (and kill a velocirapter).

That's very true. Sorry, I hope that I wasn't giving the impression that LBJ wasn't a deeply flawed politician or that the Great Society came from the Democrats being hippy-dippy. I do think that's it's a really interesting case study, though. As an example of governing, it goes against the modern popular…

I don't know. I have a born-again Christian aunt who sends me chain emails about black people in Chicago and the Laffer curve (the last one amuses me considering that I study Economics), and this is her favorite show.

I used to help move furniture for a group that usually worked in very well-to-do areas. As a minority, you can bet that I had my fair share of run-ins with the police and neighborhood watch (especially in Virginia).