"Everything is awful!
Everything sucks and it's Obama's fault!
Everything is awful!
It would all be cool if we were in charge but we're not!
Everything—"

The Tea Party has driven turnout with "we will repeal the ACA, and put in place (your fantasy goes here)." Which worked for people who filled in 'no gov involvement in health care at all' and 'better cheaper faster stronger coverage for all' or anywhere in between. There is no reason to believe that the opportunity to…

Trump promised that he had a secret health care plan that covered everyone, was really cheap, and gave better coverage than anyone has now. We can call this "Trumpcare" and if he thinks that's inaccurate he can produce the secret health care plan and we'll use it on that instead.

They were trying to ignore that argument as a stupid argument, and move on to substance. And betting that once it was in place, it would be popular.

Hold up. My rule on this is that you go by whom it's important to. Bride absolutely yes/no, you go with that either direction. If she's neutral, groom yes/no and then parents yes/no.

I get the urge to lecture the radio whenever "Marry Her Anyway" comes on, then rage-change the station. If he's going to marry her no matter what the man says, then why on earth is he asking?

I could tell you I remember, but I've decided to keep that information secret for no discernible reason.

And there are definitely no arteries in the leg. (Weirdly, Community was the first show I saw depict a bullet in the thigh leading to blood spurting, as Pierce promptly and realistically bled out.)

I've heard of kids who were cool with nudist retreats when they were little getting really uncomfortable when they approached adolescence, and if the parents were wise they worked with this. (Which is what Dan gets at with asking the kids.) Any time you're trying to convince your adolescent to chill out about being…

Civil forfeiture is crazy, in terms of displaying any actual understanding of humans.

I saw the C+ and immediately thought "This is an episode where one member of the team hides things from everyone else for no good reason." Glad the universe continues to be predictable here.

He keeps managing to get into his twitter no matter how many times they change the password.

One of my favorite tiny bits of the last year was a brief vine of Boehner, shortly post retirement, driving his motor home across the asphalt prairie. It was from above so you could barely see his face, and his body language just embodied "Not my monkeys! Not my circus!"

Interesting point—my examples of straight men grounding their wacky friends' antics are all comedies.

It can be two things.

The only thing I can come up with is that a subordinate DID convince him that the shape of the semi-unknown emails formed a perfect smoking gun, and then a completely non-impetuous person had an impetuous moment he somehow didn't quite grasp would be the major news story throughout the end of the election, rather than…

Yes, people do need to remember that in this analogy the game board is the nation or world, and so "Ha! He realized I was winning and so he kicked it over and stomped on everything" is not actually 'winning.'

I feel like there is some Shakespeare-level story going on with Comey, which we will maybe come to understand in a decade or two. The bizarre decision to release that letter (which only made sense as a heads-up if they were days away from issuing an arrest warrant, rather than the actual 'Abedin had email, like almost…

Nuance—the executive branch doesn't order wire taps. Or shouldn't, and there is no evidence that it did here. The FBI can ask for them, and Comey seems to be saying it did no such thing.