Because the Reconciliation runaround they’re using to avoid a filibuster only works if the bill in question doesn’t add to the deficit. So what they have to do is gut Obamacare this year, and then pretend next year that they suddenly have all this extra money (because they aren’t spending it on the ACA), which they…

oh dear, I didn’t mean you! I meant that first video, which liberally uses “octopi” and gives me fishrage. Sorry.

Pedantry Corner: the correct plural of “octopus” is either “octopuses” (treating it as a loanword fully assimilated into English) or “octopodes” (pronounced “ock-TOP-uh-dees”, following original Greek pluralization, and definitely superior in every way), but it is definitely not “octopi” (false Latinization).

I’m not sure that knowing any more about him than I presently know (ie, “that guy who helped Conan’s intern driving around on her learner’s permit, who left his wife for his side piece, then stepped out on her while they were married and she was pregnant, and now serves up a bunch of evasive bullshit when obliged to…

This is the part about weddings I really don’t understand: you don’t have to invite anybody. Really. My parents didn’t even invite their own parents to their wedding (the just sent the bill for the booze, which was the only expense since they got married on a merry-go-round in a park in SF). And since my dad is…

As per some twitter post I can’t find anymore, they should stream the eight randomly to different viewers. Then, once everybody figures out there were different endings, HBO should admit that they shot multiple endings, and say that the number of them is one more than there actually was.

In every story about Hope Hicks, it is important to note that Cory Lewandowski has been (allegedly!) schtupping her on the side, more or less openly, thereby publicly humiliating his wife — a 9/11 widow whom he married and with whom he bought an expensive home with the insurance money, and with whom he has four kids —…

But but

Typography Corner: no, an interrobang is a single glyph — ‽ — which very few people use, but should. People always mix up the order when they do two characters, and I never know whether they’re questioning excitedly (?!) or not sure if they should be excited in the first place (!?).

Like others have pointed out upthread, this is how you get there. The GOP has been pushing the political center rightwards for decades, and Democrats have been absolute saps is going along with it. It’s about time they start doing the same: push legislation that’s outside of possible, so that moving the center…

This hit twitter a couple days ago. I couldn’t breathe; it’s amazing.

Remember, grown-ups: there is no lower limit to the age at which it is appropriate to scream obscenities at people for using racist language. Hammer it into ‘em early and often that it’s utterly unacceptable in any context and receives immediate negative consequences, and maybe, just maybe, people might someday stop…

You’re missing a much more fundamental issue here. It’s not that Tesla can remote-update cars to change their capabilities and/or behavior that’s really at the heart of this. The core is that our economy produces more goods than they can sell at the price they want to sell them, and are thus artificially limiting…

nobody did dystopian ice cream like Invader ZiM:

Thank you for these regular updates. I’ll admit to no small amount of Schadenfreude over watching the Brexiteers trip over their own dicks to fall face-first into the steaming heap of shit they dumped on the EU.

The last time Jane gave this sort of shitty advice to some poor woman stuck in a relationship with a lying/abusive asshole, one of the comments was really insightful and stuck with me: “people write to advice columns to be told what they already know but wish they didn’t.”

That’s from Wonkette, which is by far the best place for snarky political blogging. Go support them, because they do good work and run the site on donations.

Let’s not be too overeager for damage to That Asshole’s trash palace. Motherfucker commits insurance fraud for fun and profit. I guarantee you the tiniest bit of damage will be used to fund a complete renovation at taxpayer expense; there is no way that fucker is going to suffer any personal harm for this.

Apropos: I read that yesterday an appeals court decided to allow (parts of?) a Texas Voter ID law to remain in place. Do you have more information on that?

Also worth noting, courtesy of Cracked: that incredibly deep lore story, with its elaborate backstory and everything, was actually the main game narrative. Then the higher-ups at the studio heard the story, hated it, and decided they would trash it (or rather, banish it to the web-only stuff) and rewrite then entire…