Does anyone credible actually think they’re really capitalist or democratic? Putin’s regeme - or groups connected to them - almost certainly murders journalists, human rights lawyers, etc. Civil society and the courts are a joke. And the plight of LGBTQ citizens is just awful at this point. Pretty much existing is…

Who actually wrote that letter the doctor signed was so questionable that I’m surprised it didn’t refer to Trump’s prostate as “entirely unbig”.

There are few conflict of interest laws that apply directly to the President or Vice-President, unlike (for example) Cabinet positions - which are appointed. It’s somewhat difficult for Congress to legislate this, because of the separation of powers.

The President isn’t allowed under the Constition to get any gift…

If he actually tries to do the job, I think it’ll kill him. I honestly don’t think he can take the hours and stress.

I may rediscover prayer - for a meteor strike during filming - if that happens.

That’s iffy with the Inhumans series launching, unless they want to use AoS to help establish the other show. But that could be what the second half of season 4 is.

Oh, geez, he’s Snuffaluffagus!

Well, that’s no more crazy than Ronald Reagan’s or Sarah Palin’s interpretations of A Model of Christian Charity.

And before that, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove club fire in Boston (killed 492 people) had a national impact on fire codes (in that they actually started to set standards).

Closer to 500 vanishing. Three hundred of those jobs were engineering positions that weren’t on the chopping block anyway. So even the 800 number is bullshit, and not just because it’s fewer than 1,000.

Yup. On some level, the whole thing just comes down to “somehow I must somehow seem different, ignoring the fact that I’m doing it in a way that’s like a bunch of other people”. You grew up, you had kids, dude. It’s hardly unconventional, no matter what you’ve named your kids or you have them call you. Just do us all…

About the only thing I haven’t heard as an “iden” name is a throat/sinus clearing noise in front of it, probably only because there isn’t a precious way to spell it.

There are reasons that the “Ice Capades” never offers pieces that take on serious topics like natural disasters, child abuse, drug addiction, sexual assault, and genocide.

I’d love to see the Virginia Museum of Transportation and the NCTM produce a video with the old N&S J-Class 611 on one of its excursion trips. I saw it when passing through Roanoke a few years ago, before they restored it to working condition again - it’s really hard to visualize just how big the damn thing is - just…

It may be a backhanded way of saying that he isn’t close to his father.

Perhaps lessened in impact since the news of Bannon being named Trump’s right-hand-(extended-in-a-familiar-salute-)man broke today.

We managed to pick one up on Friday for our kids’ birthday on Saturday. They only had 18 at the local Game Stop and my wife was the 12th in line.

Plenty of anti-Semites are willing to lean on the “there are some good ones” trope. It’s got a long history.

Yup - I was wondering if it was another teacher, actually.

Mediocrity? Ford. He replaced Agnew because everyone knew he wasn’t crooked, and then Nixon resigned and he ended up President. He really didn’t have much else going for him. He certainly wasn’t the kind of moralizing jackass that Pence is, though.