I appreciate the compliment, but sadly I lack the focus and attention span. Anything I write longer than 500 words usually turns into an unwieldy mess.

Indeed, these are mild forms of coercion. But often effective nonetheless.

Sometimes reductio ad absurdum is an unfair debate tactic, and sometimes it’s exactly the right way to totally shred someone’s argument. You seem to have a good handle on when to use it.

Kentucky was the state that had one of the most wildly successful implementations of the ACA, until Bevin got his hands on it and destroyed it. Hell, he campaigned on the fact he was going to destroy it.

What these ignorant goons in Middletown fail to understand is that most addicts don’t want to be addicted. Most of the ones who need Narcan for an overdose are taking dangerous quantities just to function because they’re habituated. They won’t be “scared straight” by a previous brush with death because they already…

These bible-humpers never explain this part: If the bible was the source of the Declaration and the Constitution, then why’d it take over 1,400 years from the time the canon was settled on before the Founding Fathers turned that into a system of government? I mean, if it was all right there in the scriptures, someone…

“Sure Bobby, you can try out for the football team. Just an FYI, everyone on the football team is in the bible literacy class. It’s an optional class, totally your choice whether you take it or not. It won’t impact whether you make the team. Just want you to know that everyone on the team is in the class.”

This comment is great because it affirms my foggy memory of a time when Wilbon wasn’t a get-off-my-lawn starfucking hack. I think he might’ve even been kinda good as a columnist once? Or maybe I just had lower standards.

Oh, no doubt, you can’t have a serious conversation about any topic in America without acknowledging that racism is a core component. Anyone who proclaims, “We’re not talking about racism right now, why does everything have to be about race?” is someone who just doesn’t want to talk about racism.

Yeah, bring back Dale Sveum! Or Tom Trebelhorn! Or Don Baylor! Or Mike Quade!

You’ve completely misinterpreted my comment. I’m not saying that intellectual curiosity = left-wing politics. I’m not saying that conservatives automatically lack intellectual curiosity. I know many people who have a great deal of intellectual curiosity, yet remain conservative.

Contract the Mets!

I grew up as one of those brainwashed yokels. Believed the GOP party line, chapter and verse. But if you have any degree of intellectual curiosity you eventually get exposed to outside ideas. I’m not the only one in my hometown social circle who saw the light. Those that remain brainwashed choose to remain brainwashed.

That person is a lunatic and not worth your time. You’ve made an admirable effort to try to break through but they won’t see reason.

Too little, too late, doofuses. When Trump and McConnell start handing out the bribes to the intransigent senators, you three won’t be invited to the table. Go re-read The Art of War and try again.

I can confirm that pro-Chavez and pro-Maduro nutjobs were patrolling the Gawker comments before the demise.

Of course these five Republican holdouts are fine, principled ladies and gentlemen who can be relied on to put the nation’s best interests first.

I don’t know, I tend to think that the good people at the State Department (that obviously excludes Rex) have been working hard to fight human trafficking for years and they’ll continue to do so, and everyone gets that the rank and file had nothing to do with Ivanka’s odious presence. The work goes on with or without…

Standard reputation management tactic here. She’s trying to get her name attached to something altruistic in the hopes that she can benefit from the halo effect.

And they great part is, you knew exactly what you were getting with the rotting fish, and you got it. The contractor might’ve done a great job or a moderately OK job or somewhere in between, and who can live with that level of uncertainty?