This assumes that one of them wasn't whiny, which is patently wrong.

Cats, however, will do and have done all of those things.

The 11 o'clock news? That's sort of unfair. It could be pretty funny at times, although I'll admit I stopped watching when they cast that Apprentice guy as the president. I thought NBC left that stupid Thursday crossover and theme night stuff in the 90s.

Do people actually like Sandler because of Punch Drunk Love? If anything, knowing that he's capable of being a great actor just makes me hate him more. It's like if Air Bud made one basket and then devoted the rest of his career to being Hitler.

Don't underestimate that Republicans, especially pundits, sell a lifestyle to working class whites.

In all fairness, there are "Trump supporters"—whose numbers and influence are vastly overrated—and then there are Republicans, who never really liked Trump, but are much better at closing ranks than Democrats (hey, remember when we were questioning whether it was a moral imperative to vote for a third party or abstain…

It's also worth noting that Otto Klemperer's cousin was Victor Klemperer, whose published dairies of life in Germany in the 30s and 40s are harrowing looks at how Germany's progression to the Holocaust took place over nearly a decade as mundane indignities kept mounting and becoming more serious.