“If you can’t say ‘forced busing’ or ‘states’ rights’, you say...uh...Cheesecake Factory, I guess? Though I see that some of you have gone back to saying...that thing I said you could say...anyway.”

If people bother to vote every election, polling stations will learn to prepare to accommodate them, and take on more election officials and set out more booths.

The line was two and a half hours at my early voting location on the 27th. Which was the county Board of Elections main office. Which had fewer voting stations than the other county facility I early-voted at in 2016, and far fewer stations than my on-the-day location had in 2014. It’s almost like they’re actively…

And don’t forget about Sylvia Browne, who was so bad as a medium you could almost have solved cases by looking everywhere but where she said.

“Graphic design/designer” is the accepted form of the term in American English and has been since the term was coined in the 1920s. In fact, “graphics designer” is used by some graphic designers, including some friends of mine in the field, as a reverse shibboleth indicating that a job/contract listing doesn’t know…

When Nixon died, it had been twenty years since he had resigned, and though my generation hadn’t lived through a day of his Presidency we all knew about his misdeeds. And yet - and yet - after his death, much of the media I was exposed to was “let’s talk about Nixon the President, not Nixon the scandal”.

And this is where constant “civility” discourse leads us. Not a thought in his head (I know I could end the sentence there, but lemme finish) about the effects his words have had on others, his unabashed racism, the violence he has encouraged his cult-like followers to inflict on others; no, it’s his tone that he…

That’s the thing I always hate when people start talking about changing voting systems. They’re not concerned with mathematical fairness, accurate reflection of the electorate’s will, or reduction of spoiler effects; it’s couched so often in how many “moderates” the system produces, as if reinforcing the status quo (or…

Oh, wow, they really do all just blend together enough that I can’t tell them apart anymore.

You say that as if Kemp actually intends to distance himself from it in any meaningful way. Even of Stachowiak he only managed to say “I certainly don’t agree with his extreme views”, without ever once to my knowledge stating which of those many views he had a problem with. Was it the anti-Muslim t-shirt, the “Trump…

Given his track record with breached servers, I expect this “investigation” to turn up no actual evidence linking any purported breach to anyone actually associated with the Democratic Party, but we’re going to be asked to take it on blind faith that it absolutely had to be a Democrat anyway. Possibly Abrams herself!

I voted, but I have no way of knowing if my votes were recorded or reported correctly, or at all. I’d like to think my vote mattered, but I have no way to tell.

You wanna put money down on whether he spells it “ya’ll”?

I should also note here that the question of Fair Use arose in Gaylord specifically because the court held that the copyright of the Korean War Veterans Memorial was neither held by the US Government nor was in the public domain - were it in the public domain, Fair Use doctrine would have never been in question. So I…

They made minor differences and that gets a pass quite frequently.

Do you have any references in which an art piece donated for display on public property was considered to be in the public domain merely by means of being donated? I don’t think I need to disprove a claim you have yet to prove actually exists.

You’re presenting a case about Fair Use (which applies to non copy write work), not Public Domain.

As for public domain, that could be successfully argued using their numerous attempts to give it to the public. Which is very much what erecting a monument on state grounds is. Educate yourself.

One comparison I like to make here is California versus Wyoming because it’s eye-opening. California has 55 electors, and Wyoming 3. If you go by voting-eligible population and assume 100% turnout, an individual voter from Wyoming has 3 times the ability to influence the Electoral College as an individual voter from…

The fuck is up with these Beckies who think that just because they live in a building/neighborhood it’s all theirs to police? Reminds me way too much of the chick who was trying to pull the “my building” card on the guy just trying to go home. Makes me glad the worst I have to worry about is the old lady who walks the…