My thin ray of hope is that Trump’s approval rating is nearly as low as Bush’s was in 2006 when the dems took back the house, and I think it will go lower, so maybe that will make a difference. It’s a long shot, but it’s either hope for a long shot or drink myself into a stupor for the next couple years.

Sounds like he took-a-chance, took-a-chance, took-a-chance that his followers don’t care whether what he says is true

the headline gave me a hearty chuckle

the headline gave me a hearty chuckle

That’s fair, he’s certainly not as exploitative or damaging as the other three. I think it’s as much my distaste for spirituality that makes me lump them together.

Dr. Oz gives him a run for his money, though. Not to mention Eckart Tolle or the lady who wrote The Secret, who had less staying power but were somehow even dumber. There are a lot of things to admire about Oprah, but her love of facile pseudo science is not one of them

Or in the case of the hobbit, splitting one relatively short book into 3 3 hour long movies, the first of which was terrible and the subsequent two worst than the last

That’s true. It’s the Lindsey Graham effect. Because he believes Obama was born in the US, global warming is real, and Trump is a disaster, he comes across as extremely reasonable, when in more reasonable times he would be seen as an arch conservative

I think the point is not that he’s so morally bankrupt that if he thinks trump is morally bankrupt it must be true. Rather, he’s a guy with a very expansive view of executive power and he thinks this is too much executive power. I mean, either way, who he is or what he believes isn’t a great argument, but it at least…

Exactly, there is little to no evidence that Bernie would have done better beyond some polls in spring that had him ahead by more than they had Clinton ahead, but Sanders types treat Irma as gospel truth that he would have won. Clinton treated him with kid gloves the entire primary; if he was faced with the Republican…

I sing that every time I hear someone talk about the young pope. That said, watch it, it’s amazing

To be fair, an exhaust port is a kind of hole, and it’s existence is present in the plot.

The estimated crowd at the chicago march was 250K. Also it was nearly 60 degrees in January in Chicago; I think we know whose side the earth is on.

I’m headed to the march in Chicago. I normally am not a protester, since I don’t like crowds and have always justified not participating with “eh, it wouldn’t have made a difference.” But I think at this point I just need to do something.

Wow, those really are two sided dice.

Wow, those really are two sided dice.

“$12 gets you a multitude of options, from 2-sided up to 20-sided, in seven different colors.”

“$12 gets you a multitude of options, from 2-sided up to 20-sided, in seven different colors.”