As the Democratic Party is today, I am honestly not sure if them winning in 2018 and 2020 will be a good thing or a bad thing ultimately. Yes, obviously a Democratic government is vastly better than the one we have now. But, unless they can make huge wins and cement enough of a majority to actually accomplish…

“They should be forced to own every last bit of this truly evil shit forever.”

Oh, they know how much they are loathed at this point. Thing is that they had already decided not to give a shit as long as they have extremely wealthy donors willing to buy elections for them. They have about 40% of the public willing to vote themselves out of any hope for financial security in exchange for “owning…

I sometimes wonder how shitty things have to get before people like this realize they’re being conned by the GOP. Then I think of Alabama and Mississippi. We are truly fucked.

Ugh, Dems need to divorce themselves from their precious “processes” and “norms” if they want to even have a sliver of a chance to make any political achievements at all. If you thought the GOP was obstructionist during the Obama years, just wait until (assuming it happens) we get another Dem in the White House. With…

In the context of what Trump has said and how he used it, I think that “Pocahontas” could be considered a racial slur. However, Huckabee-Sanders would have used the same defense regardless. I can hear the rationale already: “At least what he said isn’t as bad as faking being an Indian.”

I don’t recall so much love for the EU back during the Greek debt crisis and the resulting austerity measures. Fact is that the EU consists mainly of neoliberal technocrats and corporatists. Sure, they are better than the fascists that wanted Brexit because of foreigners, but I can definitely see many legitimate…

I’d like to think that there is some sort of moral line that Republicans would not cross to enact their agenda, but the process of elimination has left a vanishingly small possibility for that. I’m not even sure that justifying child molestation in exchange for a Senate vote on tax cuts for the wealthy even counts as…

“Why do you think I’m a libertarian?” Probably something to do with an unearned and inflated sense of accomplishment/intelligence. That’s the usual reason.

Never had a good experience with an ISP. They treat their customers like garbage because they are de facto monopolies that do not need to respond to market demands because they’re selling a product that everyone now pretty much needs. But, if a technologist that works in IT says it’s fine, who am I to argue?

I guess the assumption is that if he’ll act that way around women in public he must be hiding a sex dungeon somewhere. Seriously though, the least charitable thing you could say about what he has been accused of so far is that he is a gropey improprietous sleaze. Considering that the majority of our politicians in…

What you’re asking for could only be resolved with some kind of lie detector test. If we actually had a proven lie detection method (polygraphs are right up there with homeopathy and healing crystals), we would presumably also eliminate the need for more than like 90% of the court system. But yeah, if only...

The fiddle would have been a better choice for a psychopathic vigilante. It could still play the blues, but with a more lilting tonal quality befitting of someone about to dismember the boss of a local crime syndicate.

Why not? Blues guitar has everything: relatively inexpensive as far as instruments go, can be carried around easily to inflict upon others, doesn’t require a lot of practice to delude yourself that you have talent, frees the mouth for serenading the ladies, I could go on.

Just because someone is not a sexual predator, does not mean they aren’t a monster in some other way. Franken might be groper, but his opposition wants to take women’s rights back into the 1800s, so I would definitely factor that into the equation when deciding whom to vote for. Take Mike Pence: very likely has never…

Liberals have staked themselves on the position that we must instantly believe any accusation of sexual misconduct, regardless of evidence or lack thereof. While I agree that we need to take down predators, regardless of whether they support leftist causes, there’s very little to gain from reflexively attacking anyone…

There is no justice when it comes to movie adaptations. The Dark Tower movie adaptation was squandered on a hack director. With the right talent, it could have at least been made into an entertaining set of movies (at least the first few books before the whole series crawled up its own ass). I was very excited when I…

For all the batshit insanity of Lynch’s Dune, it stands out as way more engaging to watch than the Syfy miniseries, not unlike comparing Kubrick’s “The Shining” with that awful tv miniseries version. I think that has a lot to do with the moronic premise that a movie adaptation is best when it’s most faithful to the…

That Robert Cornelius fellow was pretty fucking dapper for 1839. He even did a pretty decent job looking detached and bored for someone using what would have been amazing, life-changing technology for most people at that time. Truly a man before his time.

PDX is just a haven for middle-to-upper class white “liberals” that want to live in a community full of people just like themselves without all the stereotypically bougie trappings of the suburbs. I’ve lost track of how many kids I grew up with in Cleveland that moved to PDX as soon as they finished college. I’m not…