I thought at least her rhetoric softened considerably between 2008 and '16—that she realized her voters were over the female cic hump and wanted to hear any cic expressing caution.

One of the things that drove me craziest in the early drone strike debate was the notion that we had to send in ground troops so people could be killed in a personal, face-to-face manner—apparently no one gets mad about that. Suggested by people who were neither in the military, nor with anyone they knew in the…

I swear that is one of the most surreal aspects of this presidency—that listening to what he says is passed off as some form of cheating.

Would Ward have a costume?

Husband: "… Why when your mother and I were young we had to ride dinosaurs to school, and the internet was dial-up."
Daughter: "I don't know what dial-up is."

I don't get complaining here about things happening elsewhere. Especially when "I wanted this to be compelling, and it was mostly boring and poorly written" is a good summary of local complaints about the first run of episodes. (Along with "poor fight choreography," "I am sick of that plane crash," "I like Colleen,"…

The grading system is "People don't read reviews without grades, so I am required to stick one on here." Then people can come argue about the grade. (If I had an upvote for every "… and after 1200 words about why that grade is wrong, I have conclusively demonstrated it should be one unit higher/lower."

The lowest grade she's given is a C- and the highest a B+. It's kind of on a par with The Walking Dead. That this equates to trashing the series as the worst thing ever… you don't get an A for showing up.

It's not like ye olde tymes when going against the general consensus on those talkies was embraced and lauded, by crackey.

Davos is clearly the more dedicated and emotionally stable of the two, so why was Danny chosen over him?

Sadly I think it will take another legislative failure and then Trump acting out with a foreign policy fiasco (bomb something big, in a manner befitting a banana republic) that convinces them he's going to keep escalating until he gets universal adoration.

I would be on board with adding Diane, but she's very explicitly a Democrat.

They tried it without grades, and readership really goes down. People feel a much stronger need to engage when they see a grade.

Nobody accuses Putin of coddling adorable baby ducks.

Soon it's going to look like the last act of Hamlet.

China already concluded that he was a paper tiger. The rest of the world will be following suit.

It's become clear that the secret plans to reform healthcare, defeat ISIL, and get rid of bad hombres all consisted of post-its.

And he would almost never leave the White House, same reason.

Pence will sign this stuff, has executive and legislative experience, AND only gets more likely to have some impeachable Trump scandal splattered on him the longer they leave Trump at the top.

Also, 'A freethinker who stood up to the president on behalf of his constituents' tends to play well at home.