Strictly speaking splinter wasn’t founded until after this moron was elected. And I would say Gawker/GMG helped Trump much. 

But how do you feel about squats and Chobani?

Inevitable sure (a friend’s AIM profile: “Want to go grab a pizza before the war?”), but it was way worse than this. Right now, not going to war is at least considered a respectable position in the mainstream. Before Iraq, it felt the like the mainstream sentiment was that if you didn’t want to go war you were a naive…

Olympia is a special ship. It would never happen, but I’d love to see a new National Museum of the Navy somewhere near Annapolis or Baltimore (the museum in DC seems pretty sad with the Barry going off for scrapping, and being on an active military base is bad for access). It could host Olympia, Salem (also suffering…

Hmm, I had thought it had gone through a refit recently, but it seems I was mistaken. Sounds like they are planning to send it for repairs next year and then relocate it somewhere other than the Houston area in the hopes it will bring in enough tourist money to pay for its upkeep.

FYI, especially in the new layout, posts without titles are hard to click. The comment icon is now the only way to get into a post like this (granted it doesn’t matter much for posts as short as this).

I understand it’s because she’s on Oprah sometimes...

Hmm, I knew Bush the elder was Reagan’s VP when I was that age (the equivalent for me), but if we go back a bit longer, I’m not sure I would have known Mondale was Carter’s VP, and I didn’t know Ford’s VP until just now when I looked it up (I’m sure I’ll promptly forget). Of course, none of those guys was Dick Cheney..…

From what I’ve heard Teddy had different problems with shots.

With the current fixed roof, it does look nicer than the concrete tomb in St. Pete:

When Biden and fellow Delaware Sen. Bill Roth pushed desegregation busing in the late 1970s, Biden considered Eastland a top ally on the issue.

That’s a typo! Biden was against school busing for integration (read the linked article)!

Because Obama was clearly able to get blacks’ support on his own. Biden was meant top appeal to old white people to whom Obama seemed like a bit too radical a pick.

Learning!

I think “just like” implies more than one similarity. And besides we could absolutely go to war with a nuclear Iran. They have no way to strike at us. Even if they decided they have nothing to lose, the most they could do is try to strike at US forces in the region or at Israel. And their fairly low tech missiles…

Yeah, Trump likes to talk tough, but it’s pretty clear he doesn’t actually want war anywhere. Of course that might change if he thought it would benefit him personally.

Iran won’t be just like Russia if they get nukes. They won’t even be like North Korea. They would likely be like a more hostile Pakistan. And they might set off a push by other other Gulf states to get nukes of their own.

And have we ever had a president running for re-election during a deeply unpopular war

Clearly they want to avoid the ESRB alcohol content descriptor...

Takes more than that to kill Bull Moose indeed...