MOST Stephen King adaptations are bad to middling. There are several good to almost great movies like It, Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Dead Zone, The Shining, The Green Mile, Misery, The Running Man, Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, and (maybe) 1408, but the rest are meh at best. It’s not Stephen King’s fault, but…

That’s the magic of building in density. The developer has to make enough profit to make those upgrades worthwhile. The city/state also need to step up to the plate to upgrade infrastructure so it is not solely on developers. At this point, it’s a public health emergency, and they need to act like it.

Article after article asks what Democrats need to learn about the last election, each seemingly coming to the conclusion— without evidence— that becoming more Bernie-like is the way to go. No one seems to ask, though, why did BERNIE lose? What should he have done differently to make himself or his ideas more palatable…

As someone said, Republicans find one thing to like about their candidate and come out in droves. Democrats find one thing to dislike about their candidate and stay home. This is why we lose.

In December 2015, I got a job in Oakland making the most I’d made in my life. I could NOT find an affordable place to live. Open houses at somewhat decent places in not-so-great neighborhoods had lines of 20-30 people waiting to turn in applications. Anyone with a less-than-stellar credit report basically had to…

What “fires people up” is often fear and anger, and that fear and anger is often misplaced. Constantly telling people, “the system is rigged against you” might be effective at getting attention & certain people to come out, but “the system” and “rigged” mean different things to different people. I mean, Obama was the…

But who on the left disagrees with any of the goals of the left? We’re pretty united at least on goals/principles.

It could also be a run-of-the-mill scam. I remember the RNC got into a lot of hot water over a similar scheme, so I have a tough time believing the DNC would pull the same shit. I guess they potentially could have hired the same firm to do these mailers but that seems dumb.

I attended UVA from 90 to 97 (double Hoo) during the time of peak black matriculation. It was pretty great. The early 1990s were very Afro-centric generally— imagine being in college when Malcolm X came out. One of the selling points for incoming black students was that you could have a distinctly black experience at…

Wow, a sensible essay about Hillary Clinton by Alex Pareene. Wonders will never cease.

Wait— “they aren’t kids”. She’s not talking about kids, dude.

The alternative to prisoners working at the governor’s mansion was prisoners working at the prison. This is the silliest shit to get upset about.

The normalization of the truly abnormal Trump administration continues.

*tears*

Sanders would have lost embarrassingly in the general. Neither Hillary nor Republicans treated him as a serious threat. Had he been a serious threat, the gloves would have come off and the considerable oppo research would have been used against him. Furthermore, the man could not get enough people out to vote for him…

Yep. You can bet his first phone call after leaving CIA HQ was to the White House to tell them what the CIA has on them.

think Manafort and Flynn will definitely go down, but who knows if they will take Trump with them? Trump is stupid enough that collusion could be happening around him and he’d have no idea. He is easily manipulable and dumb. If that’s the case, I hope Congress can impeach him for being a stupid motherfucker.

The worst part of this is that the FBI will probably never find evidence of collusion. If no money changed hands and if no conversations were recorded, what evidence could there even be? Trump and his team openly planned to undermine the US by going around the intelligence bureaucracy which should be a crime in and of…

I’m not sure how seriously I should be taking someone who can’t be bothered to spell “Keith” correctly even once, but Perez didn’t appear “out of nowhere.” He is a talented administrator, an Obama cabinet member, and considered for Clinton’s Vice Presidency. I don’t know who these “donors” are that you refer to, but…

What all of you don’t get is that there is little ideological about our problems with Sanders. Perez is a committed progressive: why do SANDERS’ fans reject him? He actually is the unity candidate: ideologically progressive, but loyal to Obama/Clinton. Are Clinton supporters not supposed to have any representation,…