I think I’m more bugged that Sybil’s young and apparently slim? Like, if I’m not remembering incorrectly, Lady Sybil is middle-aged and described as physically large and graceful, and she’s the love interest. I’m sure that Rossi will be great, I’m just trying to figure out whether it would be better - if they think…

This is a bad take. Government can’t function that way. It requires some basic level of good faith and respect for the process. If we don’t have that (and it looks like we don’t where I live), then we don’t actually have a functional government. That’s been taken from us by the state Republican Party.

None of that matters if you don’t mind flat-out lying to political opponents. It’s a bit silly that they’d even quote Tim Moore, who is a known liar. This is probably the most blatant deception I’ve known them to undertake, but it’s Exhibit #5921 that the North Carolina Republican leadership will lie, cheat, or steal…

CW shows seem not to worry about that kind of thing (e.g. whether it makes sense to send someone in with guns or a stick when you’re also sending people that can move at Mach 5 or can’t be hurt with anything that couldn’t also level a building or what have you). I assume for the cool visuals, but maybe he’s got a…

The first sentence is correct. The second discounts 1. the effect on turnout of off-year and special elections, which generally favors Republican voters; 2. the chilling effect on voting that things like election fraud can have; and 3. the fact that both of these are heavily gerrymandered “safe” districts for…

They also don’t really care if people get neonatal care or have water that won’t cause birth defects, so it’s tough to make a case that they really give a shit about them before they’re born, either. It’s just the woman deciding not to have the baby that they’ve got an issue with. 

I think that pretty well covers my concerns. And yeah, I have noticed that there used to be an actual process involved with this, and that it’s sort of gradually stripped away to this minimal thing that’s vague and probably not legal on its own, but it sounds good. The type of approach you’re suggesting seems not only…

It’s not zero, but it ain’t many. Certainly not enough to justify continuing with the very poor regulations we currently have. Most of these seem reasonable and like a good idea, but the way red-flags are often implemented has a lot of the same problems of due process and restoration of rights that we see with things…

Let me know if you figure that one out. I’m also trying to think of a way that Zombi Child isn’t going to be a shit show.

You badly misread things, then. I’m not sure where you inferred a friendly tone as I was asking you to please stop misrepresenting people and cheapening the faith of others. But I did not mean to give you that impression. You’re a bigot. You’re a zealot ignorant of his own faith tradition. You’re currently failing in…

Oh my God, please finish up and disappear up your own butt. Take your bigotry with you.

Sorry, the actual thing you said was :

Speaking of obtuse. Read the whole sentence next time, not just the part you like:

Actually, let’s not discount one of the three of faiths based on the God of Abraham on the basis that it screws up your argument about one of the other two. The “God of the Bible” is triune within most (but not all) Christian sects, but not within either Judaism or Islam. There is also no cross or resurrection in…

Someone already nixed the idea of meeting with the Taliban that week and spending the following days yelling about how well he gets along with them, so I assume he’s planning to throw some sort of large party and parade to mark the occasion in the solemn and thoughtful way it deserves. They’ll probably play that one…

You really gotta expand that reading, chief.

Sure we can. Jesus upended large chunks of Old Testament and Jewish traditions dating back centuries, and we’re claiming to worship the same God. Even without agreeing that their doctrine is correct, you can acknowledge their intent to worship the same God. Presumably, you’re already doing that for Jewish doctrine and…

I mean, it is pretty easy to find out that Muslims explicitly state that their God is the God of Abraham and that they list Jesus as a prophet, yeah. So, their intent is to worship the same God.

THANK YOU. God, it’s just too easy if you use your tax-refund helicopter. My reach goal this year is to catch that weird, virgin Bachelor that ran off into the Mediterranean countryside. But no helicopter. I’m going on horseback with the 13th century Polish cavalry lance I bought from a museum in Krakow and my…

Really, you’d think “Using the same rules we were using last week” would be more efficient than having to scramble to justify why we’re stopping people who can normally just come on over for (probably) a couple weeks with no difficulty or special documents from getting to safety and reducing the emergency services…