Nah, she makes a great point that the situation would have been much better had those students been armed and returned fire against the National Guard. Think how much more impressive the memorial would have been if instead of 4 dead students there were 4 dead guardsman and 40 students!

Of course not, and only a monster would wish any harm on innocent children, which is why I’m most definitely not doing that.

I can’t wait for the cottage industry of memoirs from the Tillersons/Preibuses (Preibii?) of the world about how sad they are about the state of American politics and government. Goddamn them to fucking hell.

I guess I’m not sure what you’re saying here. My comment was expressing a wish that some US politician would take the public position that this is a fucked up place being fought over by multiple groups of terrible people and they can all go fuck themselves. That’s most definitely not Trump’s position—he’s as…

I’m not sure how one could argue that this is Trump’s approach given his chumminess with Bibi and moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

I think we should be bummed about he fact that people like him feel emboldened enough to do this kind of thing in public, and happy that he was essentially run out of the place by the onlookers who had not use for his bullshit.

Is there anyone who issued a statement saying that the whole region can go fuck itself and maybe the world would be better off not being held hostage to a speck of dirt and the bunch of assholes fighting over whose ancestors had a better claim to a pile of rocks?

What about someone who is an inch too tall to sit comfortably in the seat, and is put in a significant amount of discomfort to remain perfectly upright for three hours? If that person is sitting in front of me and needs to recline their seat, my beef is with the airline that this might make my experience less than…

Of course, the issue is always a balance between the legitimate need for security and unpleasant/ineffective security theater. And like I said, the hardening of cockpit doors makes someone bringing a box cutter or a Swiss army knife completely pointless. What’s someone going to do with a boxcutter on a plane now? The…

Uh, you know that’s the line from Airplane, right?

To put a really fine point on it, the threat of terrorism is wildly over-inflated. The hardening of cockpit doors prevents hijacking and any further 9/11 style attacks, not getting full body scan. If a terrorist wants to make a splash, they can throw a pipe bomb onto a subway car or rent a Uhaul and run a red light.…

Yes, more like taking the bus, if you had to budget an hour and a half to just get on the bus and the bus company acted like everyone was on the verge of terrorism at all times.

It’s a fantastic trick the airlines have pulled to make passengers mad at each other over the fact that there isn’t enough room to sit comfortably in their seats.

Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!

You’ve got to admit that it’s been turned into a pretty silly and degrading series of security theater and discomfort though, right?

Yeah, if he’s betting $250/pull, there have been plenty of stretches where he lost $100k in a couple of hours.

Bittenbinder has become something of a minor celebrity, first via the surprise uncovering of vintage appearances that confirmed how on-point Mulaney’s impression of the grizzled Chicago cop were

Are these people fucking stupid?

In Our Time is the best history podcast. It’s also the best science podcast. As well as being the best religion and philosophy podcast.

John Brown and Nat Turner, yo.