“As a body of work, it’s a hollowed-out and varnished cadaver, held together by tissue only skin-deep; a Humpty-Dumpty man ready to shatter when pierced by a single question.”

You are lucky.

Your opinions are stupid, and wrong.

Most of this analysis is bad. It isn’t a serious engagement with this news story by an experienced journalist, but the freak-out and mind-dump of an amateur news-watcher.

I’m really not looking forward to hearing about these people’s off-the-court bullshit for the next 15 years.

She is an actress playing a role. You are watching a character in a fiction written by someone else, not Elizabeth Moss. Enjoy the fiction as fiction, or don’t enjoy it, but they are fictional characters trying to tell a story or make a point belonging to the writers, not to the actors or key grips or anyone else.

James Harden is a bucket of crap.

Here are pie charts of federal govt revenues and expenditures:

Seriously. I mean, we can totally understand fans of big-time clubs killing each other with abandon. But these little pikers?

Dear global soccer fans, sports are not remotely worth ANY of this shit.

“...using his talents where he can win or chase that championship.”

Nice, thanks!

Where at?

Cool. Will I be able to actually buy a switch by then?

Sleepytime. Now that is a quality tea.

Kim is being pretty aggressive already. He’s the on the offensive so far. Trump doesn’t know how to do any of this stuff. At the end of the day, he will listen to his generals, who will recommend caution, and he’ll say “okay.”

“Who you think will back down first?”

“Conservatives, especially those who came up during the Obama era, have, more or less, the opposite problem: They’ve convinced themselves that their agenda is hugely popular and that everyone supports them.”

I’d be very surprised if we do anything major over there at all. These guys are slowly finding out why problems like North Korea, Syria, Russia, China, Palestine are as intractable as they are. It’s easy to bluster when the other party has the presidency. Now they’ll figure out they have nothing better to offer. …

That game did not disappoint. High stakes for regular season, close game until the 4th, and even then hard to put away. Great game.