Oprah not running for president is the best thing Oprah has ever done in my opinion. 

I’m staying in because I have some to add to the discussion and it’s a long way between now and then so a lot can change is a very different argument to “we’re shooting for sixth place!”

I’ll try harder next time. 

“Garbage” is an interesting way to spell perfectly fine Senator who will hopefully continuing serving her constituents well for years to come.

Is a 6th place in the Iowa Caucus even possible, as a practical matter? According to caucus rules, if a candidate doesn’t have 15% of the vote in an initial caucus process, they’re deemed not-viable and dropped from the process before the second round of caucusing.

Werther’s is some straight up coastal elite old people candy. In the rust belt, where men carry their lunch in a pail, old people have pepper mint candy. Usually stolen from an Applebee’s hostess stand. 

Go get fucked.

Not that I’m trying to fear-monger, but I don’t entirely trust this government to keep everyone’s information safe, all things considered.

The Paterno/McQueary conversation as it plays out in the fevered imaginations of Gladwell, Jenkins, et al:

It’s worth remembering that FDR was regularly attacked from the left by purists like Francis Townsend and Upton Sinclair because the New Deal was too timid and Pete Seeger because Lend-Lease was insufficiently deferential to Stalin’s non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany.

I don’t need to figure it out. Literally 22 academic studies have been on the ground, done the research, and came away with the exact same conclusion: the smoking bans have not negatively impacted the restaurant business.

Clearly, you had a business that didn’t succeed and you’ve chosen to blame the smoking ban for…

The running-mate could be a pile of sawdust. It literally does not matter.

It’s really fun to argue that Joe Biden is the least electable of the major candidates and watch people lose their minds. But it’s true.

If you want to argue menthol cigarettes should be banned as well, I wouldn’t disagree. After all: “A 2010 study by the Harvard School of Public Health comparing tobacco marketing in two racially disparate neighborhoods found that the predominantly black one “had more tobacco retailers, and advertisements were more…

If you don’t trust the Centers for Disease Control, here are 21 other scientific studies on the issues that reach the same conclusion that were cited in the previously referenced CDC study:

Both cigarettes and ecigarettes/vaping remain legal. In both cases, flavored tobacco is illegal. Flavored tobacco traditional cigarettes have been illegal since 2009.

Ps: the restaurant industry still hasn’t, and probably won’t ever, recover from the smoking bans. Wtg morons

Correct take.

The comparison to The Room is apt. The whole bit where they are FUCKING yelling at each other about some such FUCKING thing in the middle of a live breaking newscast really is the “It’s bullshit, I did not hit her. I did nooot. Oh hi, Mark!” of Sorkinism.

That scene was eight minutes long. Holy hell, that’s brutal.