When I read it I realized that Republicans have been putting party before country for a looooong time. And I buttressed that reading with All the President’s Men so I may be combining things lol; they go good together.

He learned it from Cohn: accuse your enemy of your own transgressions. Of course it works perfectly well with conservatives because they deal almost exclusively in projection. Him calling her a bigot was fucking hilarious, a truly jaw-dropping-stupid-funny moment that is completely lost on all his supporters. Like…

I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail recently and this reminds of the diagnosis Thompson gave to McGovern’s fall. Essentially the Eagleton scandal made McGovern look like a politician. Before the scandal he was seen as trustworthy, spoke his mind; everything that no one associates with a politician. When he…

He’s between a rock and a hard place because he needs to pivot (I hate this word) on this issue to ever have a hope of getting more than like 3% of the AA vote, but then again he’ll lose a lot of his current supporters for doing this (for my uncle this would be a deal-breaker for him) so he’s fucked either way. Plus…

Just file this under: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. AMIRITE! But seriously, anyone carrying a gun around is playing a stupid game, and will eventually win a stupid prize.

Jeter was similar in this way as well. I thought Jeter was a demonstrative defensive SS: he would leap and tumble and what not, but half the time he would have no chance at getting the out. He knew if he could make an effort of it -fake hustle- then he would be rewarded, and he was right. Voters would reward him for…

I think Trout makes the highlights the same way Matt Kemp used to, he doesn’t position himself well but makes up for it with incredible athleticism. Kemp used to get horrendous jumps on the ball, often times initially running in the wrong direction, but when he managed to recover, his speed would allow him to get to…

Orson Welles was billed at 6'2" to probably 6'4". I believe the army listed him officially at 6'1". John Wayne might as well have listed himself at 8' because really who gives a shit. Jeb is 6'3" and he constantly slouches and Trump is noticeably shorter than him.

The 2009 Yankees had 7 20 HR players. Pre-juicing Melky Cabrera hit 13. And Jeter... hit 18. Come on Jeets, two homers, that’s all that was needed!

Well I'm sold!

Even crazier - Jeter has 5 of them.

You'd think so, but that's not always the case. BTW: English being a European language - that's the joke.

I think Rand would align more with Nietzsche and the thought that Christianity is a religion for slaves. Only slaves would say to turn the other cheek (because they have no power to do otherwise). Only slaves would say that it isn't this life that matters (because it sucks being a slave) but it's the next one that…

We should throw the argument they were using for the PATRIOT ACT back at them. “If you have nothing to hide, then why are you against it?” To paraphrase James Fallows, the only logical conclusion we can come to about his decision not to be transparent is that he’s deemed the backlash for releasing them to be worse…

I think a big part of it is the widespread solipsism of free-marketers thanks in no small part to ego-lovers like Ayn Rand. When you can refuse to believe anything told to you based upon the possibility that the person telling it to you may not be real, then shit’s gonna get stupid real fast. Yet a lot of these people…

What’s funny is how generally ignorant they are of European culture to begin with. I know, I know, they’re really just talking about skin color, but I always find it funny when they harp on and on about how proud they are to be of European stock and European culture. How many European languages do they speak? One, at…

The subprime mortgage crisis should have forever sunk the notion of letting the businesses do what they want because they know best. Vidal was right, we are the United States of Amnesia.

Businesses don’t exist to make employees rich, they exist to make employers and investors rich. It’s all about what you can get away with, and some can get away with paying nearly nothing. Where are people supposed to get the rest of a living wage? Not their problem. Maybe increase the number of hours in a day to 30…

Meanwhile, one of Trump's sons retweets a Trump and Pepe the Frog meme. Of course the media won't pay attention unless Clinton were to point it out, and then they would accuse of her of "lowering the bar" and "being mean". We're so fucked. We need to drive our MSM into the ocean with the Repubs if Clinton wins,…

I’d say Agassi did more to make the two-hander popular, and by extension, Bolletieri and his academy. Nishikori has a beautiful two-handed backhand, I’d be happy if more hit like he does. For my money, Safin and Nalbandian had the best, most aesthetic backhands. Stan kind of reminds me of Kuerten, someone who can hit…