Our press is so ineffective that Bob Cousy could currently dribble through it.

But sema is trying to emphasize the “it wasn’t about slavery” part. Yes, yes it was. It is like arguing it wasn’t the barrels of gunpowder and dynamite that blew up the building, it was so and so throwing a match. Perhaps in the most technical of senses, they are right, but it also shows you precisely why that level…

Can we also take minute to recognize how terrible Maggie Haberman is? Seriously, straight from the NYT school of “lets play the neutral judge no matter how many lies are told; we need to treat everything equally, even lies” school of journalism.

“It was the reason, not the cause.” hahahaha, ok. The fear of northern power was that the north would end slavery.

Stop, just stop. Not even the Southerners at the time pretended it was about anything else than slavery.

That’s already a disaster, anything else would be a catastrophe.

So, one Deadpan staffer has to hit a foul shot to save the site, who is chosen?

Because being an outcast has become popular. Teens are relentlessly boring because they have the mindset that Rich described, which is the simultaneous desire to be “popular” and the defensive posture of rejecting something “popular.” It’s rather sad that Rich still feels this way.

Err, no, but thanks for trying.

Ancient civilizations had a surprising amount of time to think around and think of novel ways to kill people.

Except Smith already did a work concerning fame, “The Autograph Man,” which I will defend vociferously, and but in general, even the attention and praise she gets is insufficient. I do think, in a lot of ways, she is George Eliot’s inheritor, but I suspect people will only come around to this is another 30 years or so.

I didn’t say that, but yeah, you don’t understand logic; Those “fallacies” are metaphysical fallacies and not applicable to rhetoric, which, as you probably recall, is the art of discourse and persuasion, or at least not as serious objections. “A little learning is a dangerous thing/ Drink deep or taste not the…

Haha, says the person who just compared the “alt-left,” which is not even a real thing to the “alt-right,” which is a term they use to describe themselves. Pray tell, what is this populism that is apparently the same on both the right and left?

Yeah, those previous 12 years of Reagan-Bush before Clinton were totally big government forcing solutions on people.

I like when people say “populism is the danger” since its one step away from “democracy is the danger.” Hard to persuade people to vote for you when you will openly admit you don’t trust them.

I never take anyone seriously when they start speaking of “fallacies.” Go practice your freshman intro to philosophy elsewhere. Also, go read Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” and maybe, just maybe, you’ll understand,

the teaches of peaches

Err, you have now concerned me. Blood? Please see your doctor.

Cropdusting is never not satisfying.

Ellie, here is a a big question, at least one of them: if you poop several small poops but they are separated by a short period of time, isn’t it really just one poop and you didn’t spend enough time on the throne?